Mission Control offers a way to see all open windows on a Mac easily and from a single screen, but if you have a ton of windows open then the thumbnails shown in Mission Control can be quite small. Thus, you might be wishing you could see a larger p…
Lees meerRarely, an iPhone touch screen stops working or becomes unresponsive to touch. It’s obvious when this happens, you’ll touch the screen and nothing happens, swipes will be ignored, taps don’t do anything, and other touch on the screen doesn’t registe…
Lees meerHave you ever received a Messages sticker in iOS from someone and thought “wow that’s an amazing sticker, I wish I knew where it came from!”? Well if you and your friends are among the people who use the fun Messages Stickers feature in iOS, you mig…
Lees meerApple has opened the public beta testing program for macOS High Sierra 10.13, the next major version of the Mac operating system. MacOS High Sierra Public Beta 1 is now available to download and install for any user who is interested in beta testing…
Lees meerSome Mac users may need to install Java into macOS Sierra or MacOS High Sierra. Typically the need for Java is for specific app usage, particular app compatibility, or for developers, and it’s worth mentioning that most Mac users won’t need to bothe…
Lees meerIf you ever use an iPhone to connect to a speaker system, car stereo, headphones, or microphone, or stereo via Bluetooth, you may have been in a situation where you have an active phone call on the iPhone but want to change from the Bluetooth audio …
Lees meerApple has released the fifth beta versions of macOS 10.12.6 and iOS 10.3.3 to users participating in the relevant beta testing programs. Users who are participating in the beta testing programs can find iOS 10.3.3 beta 5 via the Software Update mech…
Lees meerDid you know the iPhone or iPad can read aloud anything that is on screen? The Speak Screen feature of iOS is helpful for many reasons, but in order to use it you must first enable the ability within the device settings, and then learn how to use th…
Lees meerApple has opened the public beta testing program for iOS 11, launching iOS 11 Public Beta 1 to all users who are interested in running the latest beta system software on their iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. iOS 11 public beta is available to anyone wh…
Lees meeriOS Messages includes the Invisible Ink feature which allows people to send obfuscated messages to and from iPhone and iPad. The invisible messages arrive visibly obscured, and the content of the invisible message can only be revealed by swiping a f…
Lees meerIf you’re a fan of Apple history and iPhone lore (the iPhone is 10 years old this year!), you’ll enjoy watching this trio of video clips featuring various interviews with some of the original iPhone team members who were tasked with developing the p…
Lees meer“Photos Agent” is a little Photos app helper process that often runs on the Mac, it’s for Photos app users and it handles background tasks like downloading and uploading to iCloud Photo Library, downloading and updating Photo Streams and shared stre…
Lees meerHave you ever wished you could access a mapping application from the command line? Now you can with Mapscii, which is sort of like Google Maps or Apple Maps but for the Terminal, with all of the mapping data rendered in ASCII text and characters. Ma…
Lees meerWhether you’re moving a file over to iCloud Drive or copying a file to iCloud Drive from the Mac, you may want to know the upload progress as the file is transferred to iCloud. Fortunately the Mac Finder makes this easy, and you’ll be able to see th…
Lees meerApple has released the second beta versions of iOS 11, macOS 10.13 High Sierra, tvOS 11, and watchOS 4. Each update is available now for users participating in the developer beta testing programs. The easiest way to get the beta 2 updates of iOS 11,…
Lees meerDid you know you can search through web browsing history in Safari on an iPhone or iPad? With the excellent Safari History search feature you can easily retrieve and find previously visited sites, webpages, and videos, whether from earlier in the da…
Lees meerApple is airing a new iPhone 7 commercial, this time focusing on the Memories feature built into the new Photos app of iOS. In the commercial, a man is seen wandering in the halls of a large archival building and gathering photos and film footage to…
Lees meerMission Control is one of the better productivity enhancing features on the Mac, allowing you to quickly see all open windows, documents, and applications on Mac OS in a broad overview screen. This offers a fantastic way to quickly navigate through …
Lees meerApple has released the fourth beta version of macOS 10.12.6 for users participating in the beta testing program. macOS 10.12.6 is set to focus on bug fixes and security enhancements and not bring any major changes or features. Note that macOS 10.12.…
Lees meerDid you know the Mac Messages app can support chatting with Google Hangouts natively? This is a nice feature for Mac users who chat with Google Hangout and leave a web browser window open to do so, since you’ll be able to communicate and message thr…
Lees meerFor those who watched the WWDC2017 keynote, you may have noticed during the unveiling of iMac Pro that the hardware shown featured some pretty stunning onscreen images of what looks like a bursting cloud of color. Not surprisingly, that iMac Pro ima…
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