iCloud Photo Library Users: Do Not Turn Off iCloud
You can file this warning under “unless it’s absolutely necessary.” If you use iCloud Photo Library on your Mac, which I personally think is great, I recommend you don’t sign out from iCloud.
Tip – Mac
Learn how to translate a website from a foreign language to your preferred language in Safari on the iPad
In this lesson for Safari on the iPad, I look at how to translate a website form a foreign language to your preferred language. As an example, you can translate a website from Spanish to…
Learn about tabs and favicons in Safari and how Safari now shows them by default in the tab bar
Safari on the iPad has always been able to support showing a website’s favicon in a tab, but in past versions of iPadOS, you had to turn this feature on. Now with iPadOS 14, Apple…
Learn which website trackers Safari has prevented from profiling you with the Privacy Report
New with Safari and iPadOS 14, you can now view a Privacy Report. This Privacy Report shows you how many trackers Safari has prevented from profiling you with a specific website, as well as with…
Don’t forget to Enable Text Message Forwarding When You Get a New iPad or Mac
You may not have noticed, but you’ve long had text messages forwarding from your iPhone to your Mac and iPad…
Make Your Finder Window Columns the Right Size
I am a big fan of the Finder’s column view for a window. (choose View > as Columns). All the …
Ransomware: What is it, Should You Be Worried, and What Protective Steps Should You Take?
You’ve probably heard of the term Malware. Unfortunately it makes headlines regularly these days. The good news is Macs are targeted far less than Windows PCs, but…
Search for Nearly Anything in Your Photos Library on the Mac
Apple’s Photos app on the Mac can identify thousands of different objects in your photos. This makes it easy to find photos based on their content. Some of what you can find include objects (cars and trains), scenery (beaches and forests), location, and even some events (weddings and parades).
Make More Space for Documents by Putting Your Dock on the Side of Your Mac’s Screen
Apple locates the Dock at the bottom of the Mac’s screen by default. That location may interfere with you seeing as much of your document windows as you’d like.
Did You Know You Can Customize the Columns in a Finder Window’s List View?
When a Mac folder contains a lot of files, the Finder’s List view often works best in my opinion. Why? It let’s you focus on a single folder…
Use Copy as Pathname on the Mac to Help Someone Find a File
Have you ever needed to show someone where to find a file on the Mac? Maybe you want to write it out in an email?…
Back Up Before Upgrading to macOS Big Sur or iOS 14!
If you poll a room of Apple experts about the one topic they get frustrated about, many will launch into rants about how too few people back up. Backups are…