Check the Weather on Your Mac and iPad, Finally!
At long last, Apple has plugged one of the most inexplicable holes in its app library—the lack of a Weather app for the iPad and Mac. In iPadOS 16 and …
New iMessage features in iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and macOS Ventura: Mark as Unread, Edit Messages, Undo Send, Report Junk, Undelete
After years of user requests, Apple has finally beefed up Messages with a few welcome features—options to mark conversations as unread for later reference, edit messages after they’ve been sent, …
Trouble ejecting your Time Machine drive? There’s an app for that!
Apple discontinued the Time Capsule, Apple’s wireless backup solution, years ago. Though I am sad to see it go, the fussier method of connecting a hard drive is in fact …
Apple releases iOS 16, tvOS 16, watchOS 9, HomePod OS 16, macOS 12.6, Safari 16, and more
Today Apple released new software for all of their devices. Most of these are the big annual upgrades, but iPad and Mac are minor with the major annual upgrades slated …
The Hardware You’ll Need to Run Apple’s 2022 Operating Systems
At Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference in June, the company threw back the curtains on macOS 13 Ventura, iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and watchOS 9. These operating systems won’t be available …
Go Beyond Get Info with the Finder’s Inspector Window
You may know that selecting a file in the Finder and choosing File > Get Info (or pres Command-I) brings up the Get Info window. This window provides information about …
Follow These Steps before Bringing Your Mac in for Repair
It has finally happened. Keys on your MacBook Pro aren’t responding, there’s a crack on the screen, or the battery no longer holds enough of a charge to make it …
Error message: macOS can’t repair the disk
If you got an error message like the one above, it is often caused by one of two things: either your drive is going bad or the drive got disconnected …
Do You Keep Losing Your Pointer on a Large Screen? Try This Tip for Finding It
A large screen—or several screens!—increases productivity by helping you see more content at once. It’s a big help to refer to a Web page in one window while writing in …
Choosing the Best Mac for a College-Bound Student in 2022
Do you have a child starting college soon? It’s likely that your kid has been relying heavily on a computer throughout high school, but if it was a school-provided laptop …