Tuesday, 02 January 2018 09:01
Learn How You Can Adjust Web Site Behavior with Safari’s Site-Specific Settings
Written by Adam Engst
Although macOS 10.13 High Sierra was light on new features, it did bring one welcome addition to Safari—site-specific settings. Imagine that you regularly visit a blog that you prefer to read using Safari’s Reader view. Rather than invoke it each time you visit, you can now set Safari to use Reader automatically on that site. [R30;]
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Thursday, 14 December 2017 14:50
Final Cut Pro X introduces 360-degree VR video editing
Written by MBS Web TeamApple’s Pro Video Editing App Also Adds Advanced Color Grading, HDR Support and More
When you’re unboxing a new iPhone, it’s time to think about how you’ll move your digital life from your old iPhone to the new one. If your old iPhone is running iOS 11, you can use Quick Start, a new iOS 11 feature that makes the transfer easy. Just turn on the new iPhone, set [R30;]
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Friday, 01 December 2017 04:07
Did You Know that Apple Pay Updates Your Credit Card Details Automatically?
Written by Adam Engst
File this as reason number 17 why Apple Pay is better than plastic. Let’s say your credit card expires and your bank sends you a new card with a revised expiration date. Or perhaps your bank replaces your card with one that has a new number. Either way, most credit card issuers automatically update the [R30;]
Friday, 01 December 2017 04:06
Follow This Quick Tip to Put Calendar Events in the Right Place
Written by Adam Engst
Apple’s Calendar apps in both macOS and iOS let you manage multiple calendars, some of which may be private and others may be shared with family or colleagues. That’s great, but if you create a new event on the wrong calendar, you may end up oversharing with colleagues (who don’t need to know about your [R30;]
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Friday, 01 December 2017 04:05
Don’t Use These Products to Clean Your iPhone (Or You’ll Wish You Hadn’t)
Written by Adam Engst
All iPhones pick up fingerprints, and it’s all too easy to get your iPhone dirty with ink, lotion, makeup, dirt, food, and oil. If you’re faced with an iPhone that needs cleaning, resist the urge to spray it with window cleaner, rubbing alcohol, or ammonia, or, even worse, to scrub it with baking soda or [R30;]
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Friday, 01 December 2017 04:04
Make Your Holiday Cards with Apple’s Photos App This Year
Written by Adam Engst
It’s that time of year again, when we realize that if we’re going to do holiday cards, we should get started. You can take the easy way out and buy a few packs of generic reindeer cards at the drugstore, but with a little work in Apple’s Photos app on the Mac, you can instead [R30;]
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Friday, 01 December 2017 04:03
Print Labels for Your Holiday Cards with Apple’s Contacts App
Written by Adam Engst
If mailing your holiday cards (which you printed from Photos, right?) is made harder by having to write addresses on envelopes, you can skip the handwriting step this year with mailing labels. Although many people don’t realize this, it’s easy to print mailing labels on standard label stock using the Contacts app on the Mac. [R30;]
Friday, 01 December 2017 04:02
What You Need to Know about Face ID on the iPhone X
Written by Adam Engst
Apple’s new iPhone X does away with the Home button, which has been a fixture since the original iPhone and has long served as the Touch ID sensor. To replace Touch ID, Apple developed a new facial recognition technology called Face ID. With Face ID, the iPhone X scans your face to authenticate you instead [R30;]
Friday, 01 December 2017 04:01
Watch Out for Phishing Attacks Hidden in Your Email
Written by Adam Engst
One of the most important things you can do to stay safe on the Internet is to be careful while reading email. That’s because online criminals know that we’re all busy, and we often don’t pay enough attention to what we’re reading or where we’re clicking. To take advantage of our inattention, these Internet information [R30;]
Wednesday, 01 November 2017 09:08
How to Get Back to Siri’s Web Results Quickly
Written by Adam Engst
Ask Siri to search the Web and you’ll get five results back from Google (not Bing anymore!). Tap one and it opens in Safari. But what if that page doesn’t contain the information you want? How do you get back to Siri’s results? The easy way is to tap the little Siri button that appears in [R30;]
Wednesday, 01 November 2017 09:07
Merge Recognized Faces in Photos in Both iOS and macOS
Written by Adam Engst
An extremely welcome under-the-hood change in iOS 11 and macOS 10.13 High Sierra is that Photos facial recognition syncs across iCloud Photo Library. Previously, people you identified on one of your devices remained unidentified on others. But what if Photos now identifies the same person twice, such that they have two separate entries in the [R30;]
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Wednesday, 01 November 2017 09:06
You Can Now Scan QR Codes with the Camera in iOS 11
Written by Adam Engst
You’ve undoubtedly seen those odd-looking square QR codes on product packaging, a business card, or a flyer. In the past, you needed a special app to scan a QR code to see what Web URL, contact card, Wi-Fi network, or other piece of information it held. In iOS 11, though, you can just point your [R30;]
Wednesday, 01 November 2017 09:05
Stop Paying Too Much for a Family’s iCloud Drive Storage
Written by Adam Engst
Apple gives iCloud users 5 GB of free storage, but that fills up fast with iCloud Photo Library, iOS backups, iBooks, and more. Until iOS 11 and macOS 10.13 High Sierra, each person in a family had to buy extra iCloud space separately. Happily, Apple has now made it so everyone in a Family Sharing [R30;]
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It’s that time of year again, when many of us start wracking our brains for gift ideas for our loved ones—or for our own wish lists. If your special someone is an Apple user, we have a few suggestions. Chargers, Cables, and Adapters, Oh My! We know that giving someone a cable feels a bit [R30;]
Wednesday, 01 November 2017 09:03
Please, Please, Use iOS 11’s Do Not Disturb While Driving Feature
Written by Adam Engst
Distracted driving may not make headlines, but it’s a huge problem. In the United States in 2015, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says that 391,000 people were injured and 3477 killed in accidents caused by distracted driving. Many things can distract drivers, but the most concerning—and the most avoidable—is texting. Given that the iPhone [R30;]
Wednesday, 01 November 2017 09:02
What Is a Fusion Drive, and Why Should You Care?
Written by Adam Engst
There are two basic types of storage devices available today: hard disk drives and solid-state drives. For the lowest cost per gigabyte, you can’t go wrong with a hard drive, and they come in truly massive sizes—up to a whopping 8 terabytes. However, they’re relatively slow. For speed, you want a solid-state drive, also known [R30;]
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Wednesday, 01 November 2017 09:01
The Swipes You Need to Know to Multitask in iOS 11 on an iPad
Written by Adam Engst
With iOS 11, the iPhone and iPad interfaces continue to diverge, which makes sense, since the iPad is not merely an overgrown iPhone. Particularly when you pair an iPad Pro with a Smart Keyboard and Apple Pencil, you can now get real work done on an iPad more fluidly than ever before. The “hard” part [R30;]
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Monday, 02 October 2017 08:04
Avoid Ransom Requests with a Unique iCloud Password
Written by Adam Engst
We’ve been hearing reports from people whose Macs have been locked remotely via Find My Mac, with the criminals responsible holding access to the Mac hostage until they receive a ransom in Bitcoin. First, if this happens to you, do not pay the ransom! Any Apple Authorized Service Provider or Apple Store can unlock your [R30;]
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Monday, 02 October 2017 08:03
iTunes 12.7 Can’t Download or Manage iOS Apps Anymore
Written by Adam Engst
The writing is on the wall: Apple doesn’t want us downloading or managing iOS apps on our Macs anymore. Most of the changes in iTunes 12.7 revolve around features Apple removed, including ringtone management and iTunes U. But the kicker is the removal of the iOS App Store and support for app syncing. This means [R30;]
Monday, 02 October 2017 08:02
Find Your Way around Airports and Malls with the Maps App
Written by Adam Engst
When you’re in a huge mall or airport, it’s all too easy to take a wrong turn and get lost. Happily, your iPhone will increasingly be able to help prevent that. Maps in iOS 11 now knows about some indoor places, such as the Philadelphia International Airport and the Westfield San Francisco Centre mall. Zoom [R30;]