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If you wish, you can rename your macOS user account and your home folder, both of which were named when you created the account. Before you proceed... The name of your user account and home folder have to be the same for technical reasons. However, the good news is that renaming your user account and home folder doesn’t require a...
Do you wonder if your Apple Watch is accurately counting the number of steps you take each day? A friend of mine was complaining that her new Apple Watch was consistently showing fewer steps than her old “manual” pedometer, so...
“Sign in with Apple” is available on macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and the web. It’s designed to make it easy for users to sign in to their apps and websites using their Apple ID. Instead of filling out forms, verifying email...
Back in the good old low-tech days, my wife taught me a trick for always getting to appointments on time. She’d set her watch, alarm clock, and car clock ahead by a few minutes, which meant that she always left...
There are times when you may wish to use Safe Mode on your Mac. For instance, it can help you resolve or isolate problems that you’re having. When you start up in Safe Mode, your Mac prevents some software, such...
You can customize lots of icons on your Mac, including the ones for your Mac’s built-in drive, external hard drives, and external SSDs. There are several ways to do this, but here is a simple one that I like to use whenever I want to change the icon of a drive on my Desktop.
