Note-taking has come a long way since the days of ink pens and pads of paper. Today, you can not only take down reminders of those important information factoids, but you can actually organize, enhance, cross-reference, and save all those critical…
Lees meerAchievement badges are a funny thing. You know they’re just a simple little bit of visual flair, they don’t even do anything, and yet for some reason you just have to collect them. Achievements are great motivators, and the achievement badges for …
Lees meerI know I can shutdown a mac via terminal using sudo shutdown -h now But that is a graceful shutdown how can I force it to immediately die (I know this is bad practice) ditto for rebooting there doesn't appear to be an argument for --fo…
Lees meerI have some text file types that do not show their contents when I use the space preview feature on Mac. For example, the markdown files (md) show their content correctly, but dart files (dart) do not show their content even though the…
Lees meerA second beta version of iOS 15.5, iPadOS 15.5, macOS Monterey 12.4, tvOS 15.5, and watchOS 8.6 have been rolled out to developers participating in the beta testing programs. No major new features are expected in the beta versions, suggesting the up…
Lees meerI recently acquired a MacBook Pro (Retina), OS Monterey, and turned iCloud syncing on for Documents and Desktop. It had downloaded (made local copies) more than 200GB of files from my iCloud, then auto-deleted half of them (locally), "O…
Lees meerAccording to the macOS User Guide: The Recording Indicator light in Control Center shows you when your computer’s microphone is in use or has been used recently... The light turns on when you open the Sound Input pane in Sound System P…
Lees meerApple on Tuesday released the second developer beta for macOS Monterey 12.4. It likely mostly includes bug fixes and security updates, though it’s possible that it also includes hidden references to new hardware releasing at WWDC in early June. Up…
Lees meerSeveral weeks after the release of iOS 15.4, Apple has begun beta-testing iOS 15.5 (and associated operating systems like iPadOS, tvOS, and watchOS). With iOS 15.4, Apple released what seemed like all previously-announced features and had nothing …
Lees meerAccording to the macOS User Guide: The Recording Indicator light in Control Center shows you when your computer’s microphone is in use or has been used recently... The light turns on when you open the Sound Input pane in Sound System P…
Lees meerVoice Isolation mode allows FaceTime on the Mac to emphasize your voice while on FaceTime calls, thereby reducing background noises and sounds. This is a nice feature if you have some background noise going on that may drown out your voice when talk…
Lees meerApple’s list of currently available content for Apple TV+ continues to grow, but there’s an even faster-growing list of projects in the works. Films, limited series, specials, and multi-season series, Apple’s got lots of irons in the fire for all …
Lees meerNow that the iPhone 13 has launched, we are officially on iPhone 14 watch. However, at this early stage, you should regard all such iPhone 14 rumor reports with extreme skepticism, regardless of the source. Apple tests many new technologies, but w…
Lees meerIf you’re in the market for a new Mac, there’s no better day to buy one. Amazon is running a sale on several M1-based Macs today, with many at all-time lows. Most of the discounts require you to add the product to your cart to see the lowest price…
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