Migrate to a New Mac Right Away, Rather Than Waiting
The next time you buy and set up a new Mac, make sure to migrate data and apps from your previous Mac to it right away during the initial setup. It can be tempting to …
AirDrop Reception Not Working? Here’s the Likely Fix
AirDrop has become a fast and reliable way to transfer data from one iPhone to another that’s nearby. Just tap the share icon and in iOS 13’s activity view, either tap an AirDrop shortcut in …
Use Guided Access to Let Kids and Others Use Your iPhone Temporarily
Let’s get one thing straight. You know that you should never, ever share your iPhone or iPad passcode with anyone you don’t trust implicitly, like a spouse or adult child, right? That’s because, with your …
What to Put at the End of Your Email Messages - Sig File
Email has been around for decades, but there are no hard-and-fast rules for how you should close a message with either the signoff or the signature block. If you’ve always wondered about the best ways …
Did You Know You Can Save and Share Voicemail Files from Your iPhone?
For many of us, voicemail replaced answering machines, so we don’t think of voicemail messages as being something we can save or share. But on the iPhone, every voicemail message is just an audio file. …
How to Find the Snaps You Want in the Mac’s Photos App
Digital cameras have been around long enough that people have stopped making snarky comments about how hard it is to find anything in a shoebox filled with hundreds of unorganized photos. But given the tens …
Cybercriminals Confess: The Top 4 Tricks And Sneaky Schemes They Use To Hack Your Computer Network
Most cybercriminals love their jobs. They get to put their hacking skills to the test. In fact, many of them “compete” against one another to see who can hack into a network the fastest or …
Never Send Someone a Password in Mail or Messages: Do This Instead!
One of the big no-nos with passwords is sending them to other people as plain text in email or a text message conversation. You presumably trust your recipient with the password, but what if their …
Need to Move Lots of Data Between Macs? Try Target Disk Mode
We have an embarrassment of riches when it comes to the number of ways we can move data between Macs. You can send files via AirDrop, attach them to an email message, put them in …
The iPhone 11 Camera App’s Shutter Button Works Differently—Here’s How
With the iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, and iPhone 11 Pro Max, Apple changed the way the Camera app’s shutter button works in ways that could cause confusion. Tapping it once still takes a single …
