Monday, 02 November 2020 09:06
How to Make Sure Your iPhone Doesn’t Make Noise in the Night
Written by Adam Engst
You likely know that you can use Do Not Disturb to prevent random notifications on your iPhone from waking you at night—it’s easy to set a Do Not Disturb schedule for your usual sleeping hours. Another setting in there is important but often overlooked. If you ever use your iPhone during those Do Not Disturb […]
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Monday, 02 November 2020 09:05
Use These Settings to Show or Hide Filename Extensions
Written by Adam Engst
On the Mac, nearly every file has an extension, a set of characters after a period that indicates what type of file it is and determines which app opens it. So, .png indicates a PNG graphic that opens in Preview by default, .pages denotes a Pages document, and .docx identifies a file as belonging to […]
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Monday, 02 November 2020 09:04
New Back Tap Feature in iOS 14 Provides Two Customizable Shortcuts
Written by Adam Engst
We all have things we do regularly on our iPhones, whether it’s checking the weather, searching Google, or invoking the magnifier. Apple has long provided ways of making your most common actions easier to access. You might put an app on your Dock, open Control Center, or take advantage of the triple-press Accessibility shortcut. With […]
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Monday, 02 November 2020 09:03
Home Screen Widgets Take Center Stage in iOS 14
Written by Adam Engst
A significant new feature in iOS 14 is Home screen widgets, information-rich tiles that share space on a Home screen with app icons. iPhone users familiar with Google’s Android smartphone operating system have long clamored for widgets because they provide quick information at a glance, without having to launch an app or swipe right on […]
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Monday, 02 November 2020 09:02
What’s MDM, and Why Is It Useful for Organizations?
Written by Adam Engst
For those who work in organizations, regardless of size, you know how much effort is involved with coordinating a group’s technology. It can take quite some time to set up a new Mac, iPad, or iPhone with all the right apps, settings, and logins. And that’s just to get started—on an everyday basis, maintaining solid […]
The holiday shopping season is fast approaching! Given the significant stresses placed on society’s fulfillment, distribution, and delivery systems by the pandemic, we recommend you start thinking about your holiday gift-giving sooner rather than later. Even Apple, which generally does an excellent job predicting demand and shipping products quickly, has been suffering from delays this […]
Wednesday, 14 October 2020 11:51
Apple Releases Four iPhone 12 Models and the HomePod mini
Written by Adam Engst
For the second time in less than a month, Apple has made a splashy announcement. In its “Hi, Speed” event, the company unveiled a new lineup of four iPhone 12 models along with the new HomePod mini. HomePod mini Just as Apple did in its event, let’s get the HomePod mini out of the way […]
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Friday, 09 October 2020 15:26
Webinar: Premiere & After Effects on the Mac Pro
Written by MBS Web TeamThis is the recording of our September 29, 2020 live webinar.
This is the recording of our September 17, 2020 live webinar.
Thursday, 08 October 2020 14:11
Webinar: DaVinci Resolve Video Editing on the Mac Pro
Written by MBS Web TeamThis is the recording of our September 17, 2020 live webinar.
Thursday, 01 October 2020 15:05
Webinar: Jamf Remote Workforce and Jamf Connect
Written by MBS Web TeamIn this video JAMF's Senior Sales Engineer Jason Liebe and WW Security Solutions Lead Matt Woodruff will introduce you to JAMF Pro and JAMF Connect.
Thursday, 01 October 2020 09:08
Remember to Enable Text Message Forwarding When You Get a New Mac or iPad
Written by Adam Engst
You’ve long had text messages forwarding from your iPhone to your Mac and iPad, but after you get a new device, it might be a while before you realize that it’s not receiving texts sent to your iPhone. It turns out that, when you get a new Apple device, you must manually enable it to […]
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Thursday, 01 October 2020 09:07
Too Many Home Screens in iOS 14? Here’s How to Hide Them!
Written by Adam Engst
The App Library in iOS 14 ensures that you can find all the apps installed on your iPhone without having to hunt through Home screens. So if you already have a lot of Home screens that contain a random assemblage of apps, it might be easier to hide those screens than to remove all the […]
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Thursday, 01 October 2020 09:06
Want Better Goals? Customize Your Move, Exercise, and Stand Rings in watchOS 7
Written by Adam Engst
Ever since Apple introduced the Activity app to watchOS, you’ve been able to adjust your Move goal, which is measured in kilocalories, but your Exercise goal was locked at 30 minutes and the Stand goal at 12 hours. In watchOS 7, you can finally change these last two. In the Activity app on your Apple […]
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Thursday, 01 October 2020 09:05
Make Your Finder Window Columns the Right Size
Written by Adam Engst
We’re big fans of column view in Finder windows (choose View > as Columns). You never have to worry about missing icons that are outside the window, everything is sorted alphabetically, and selecting a file shows a preview. But the column widths can be too thin, such that they cut off file and folder names, […]
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Thursday, 01 October 2020 09:04
Scribble: Why the Pencil Is Mightier Than the Finger in iPadOS 14
Written by Adam Engst
With iPadOS, you have to remember that it shares most of its capabilities with iOS. So if it seems that iPadOS 14 doesn’t have as many major new capabilities as iOS 14, that’s not quite fair—many of iOS 14’s new features also appear in iPadOS 14. You’ll get pinned conversations in Messages, cycling directions and […]
The small screen of the Apple Watch prevents new watchOS features from being as obvious or splashy as those in iOS and iPadOS. But watchOS 7, now available for the Apple Watch Series 3 and later when paired with an iPhone 6s or later running iOS 14, has quite a few notable changes. Here are […]
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Thursday, 01 October 2020 09:02
Stop Snoops with Private Browsing and by Clearing Your Web Browsing History
Written by Adam Engst
With so many of us working at home these days, it’s worth remembering that spouses, children, and housemates may have easy physical access to your Mac. And, particularly if you share a Mac with them, you might want to consider how you protect your browsing privacy. Even if you wouldn’t be embarrassed if your spouse […]
Harvest season is here again, and Apple has deemed iOS 14 (along with iPadOS 14, watchOS 7, and tvOS 14) ready for the picking. Although the betas have been pretty stable and no major problems have appeared in the first few days, we still recommend waiting at least a few weeks before installing via Settings […]
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Wednesday, 16 September 2020 12:45
Apple Releases Apple Watch Series 6, Apple Watch SE, new iPad Air, and Subscription Services
Written by Adam Engst
In its “Time Flies” special event on September 15th, Apple cleared the decks of some secondary releases to make room for the anticipated unveiling of the iPhone 12 in a few weeks. Secondary though these products may be compared to the iPhone, the new Apple Watch Series 6, Apple Watch SE, fourth-generation iPad Air, and […]
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We’ve been hearing reports of an uptick in the scam phone calls that claim to be from Apple. If you answer, an automated message tells you that your iCloud account has been breached and asks you to call a provided 1-866 number. Do not do this! Apple will never call you unprompted. Unfortunately, the criminals […]
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Tuesday, 01 September 2020 11:07
Reduce Arrival Time Anxiety by Sharing Your Location Temporarily
Written by Adam Engst
If you’re flying, driving, or biking to visit an iPhone-using friend or family member, you can reduce anxiety related to arrival time or pickup plans (and perhaps provide amusement) by sharing your location temporarily so they can watch your progress. The easiest way to do this is to go into a Messages conversation with that […]
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