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How to Add Contacts to Favorites on iPhone

Do you want to emphasize some of the people you frequently contact from your iPhone? Maybe you want to have certain phone numbers on speed dial? This can be easily done by adding select contacts to the Favorites list on your iPhone. Most people have…

Failure to reconnect to networks on iOS

Since installing iOS 14.0 (now 14.2) my iPhone XS repeatedly fails to reconnect to my network after returning from being out of range (e.g., on a walk) and frequently loses the network connection after periods of inactivity (e.g. overni…

Teardown Skills: How to Read a Tech X-Ray

You may have noticed we have a fair number of device X-rays on our site lately. Be it wallpapers, teardown photos, or just quick tweets, Creative Electron has been providing us (and you!) with top-quality imagery for years now. While we usually post…

zsh: bad CPU type in executable

I am using the terminal on an Apple M1 MacBook. I try to use a cli tool that is not build for aarm64, so I get this error message in the terminal: zsh: bad CPU type in executable Is there anything I can do to use this cli tool e.g. wit…

Revert UI on Big Sur?

How can I revert the Big Sur UI changes, especially Finder's? While it looks cleaner, it now takes 2 clicks to change the Finder's view type of gallery, list, icons, or columns. I would rather have the old UI and use 1 click. How can I …

Can I edit iOS Shortcuts in a text editor (or something) on my Mac?

Is it possible to create or edit iOS Shortcuts using something other than an iOS device? I've created a shortcut that rolls on a table and provides the output of that roll. Entering in 100 entries on my iPhone is rather painful, especi…

20 Watt charger harmful for the battery of a device?

I'm considering to buy a 20 watt charger for my iOS-devices. Obviously it charges a device two to three times faster then the 5 watt chargers, which I currently use. I just wonder: Might it reduce the life-time of the battery? Or is it …

Why am I getting bad distortion on my MacBook Pro 15, mid 2015 right speaker?

My MacBook Pro 15, mid 2015, has bad distortion on the right speaker. Headphones and bluetooth are fine, and when I use the Audio MIDI utility to swap channels it stays on the right speaker. I installed another right speaker I bought on…

OCSP Errors - Firefox - macOS

Certain websites are failing when I have "security.OCSP.require: true" set in Firefox. Normal websites work, but when visiting commonly used websites (Facebook, GitHub, Spotify) it fails 90% of the time. What could be causing this? Fire…

OCSP Errors - Firefox - macOS

Certain websites are failing when I have "security.OCSP.require: true" set in Firefox. Normal websites work, but when visiting commonly used websites (Facebook, GitHub, Spotify) it fails 90% of the time. What could be causing this? …

How can one re-create Apple’s defunct ‘Back To My Mac’ service with specific open-source tools?

Question: how can one re-create Apple’s defunct ‘Back To My Mac’ service with specific open-source tools or, if necessary, with limited custom (non-commercial) software? (Ideally, this would be done in a way that would preserve integrat…

How can one re-create Apple’s defunct ‘Back To My Mac’ service with specific open-source tools?

Question: how can one re-create Apple’s defunct ‘Back To My Mac’ service with specific open-source tools or, if necessary, with limited custom (non-commercial) software? (Ideally, this would be done in a way that would preserve integrat…

Safari crashing on WSJ.com

In the last few days, Safari suddenly started crashing on WSJ.com. Particularly when opening articles with lots of ads, the page reloads several times then crashes saying “a problem repeatedly occurred”. On the Mac, it says that it is u…

After enabling iOS COVID exposure notifications, why was I not prompted to enable Bluetooth?

After enabling COVID exposure notifications on my iPhone, I was not prompted to enable Bluetooth which was turned off in the control center at the time. I thought Bluetooth need to be on for this service to work. If I turn off Bluetooth…

weird scrolling behavior in TextEdit, Big Sur

Does anyone get strange scrolling behavior using TextEdit (the bundled notepad equivalent in mac OS)? Particularly, when I'm typing toward the bottom of the window, and if I press return or delete, it sometimes jumps all the way to the …

How to Boot T2 Mac from External Startup Drive

Newer Mac models with Touch ID, Touch Bar, and/or the T2 security chip default to having a secure boot mode that disallows booting the Mac from external startup drives. This security setting is recommended for most users to keep enabled, but some us…

After enabling iOS COVID exposure notifications, why was I not prompted to enable Bluetooth?

After enabling COVID exposure notifications on my iPhone, I was not prompted to enable Bluetooth which was turned off in the control center at the time. I thought Bluetooth need to be on for this service to work. If I turn off Bluetooth…

weird scrolling behavior in TextEdit, Big Sur

Does anyone get strange scrolling behavior using TextEdit (the bundled notepad equivalent in mac OS)? Particularly, when I'm typing toward the bottom of the window, and if I press return or delete, it sometimes jumps all the way to the …

How to make the MacBook always sleep / hibernate instead of shut down when power is too low?

Sometimes I left the MacBook there and forgot the plug the power in, and it would wake up from a sleep (or hibernation) when I plug the power in and wait a couple of minutes and press the power button again. But sometimes it did wake up…

Acrobat/Reader Security Update, Other News, Tips, Software/Firmare Updates, PR

- Security Updates for Adobe Acrobat and Reader. - December 2020 Microsoft Patch Tuesday. - Samsung 870 QVO and Sabrent Rocket Q 8TB SSDs Reviewed. - PS4 Upgrade: SSD vs. HDD Shootout. - Chrome 87.0.4280.88 Stable Channel Update. - Sony A8 Ser…