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macOS Big Sur Weather Widget showing the 5-day forcast for Asheville, NC

How to Use the Weather Widget in macOS Big Sur

In March 2020, Apple acquired Dark Sky, an iOS/Android app that offers “hyperlocal” weather info with down-to-the-minute forecasts. Some of its features have been rolled into the Weather widget on macOS Big Sur. One is the addition of precipitation predictions in the next hour (though this is a U.S.-only feature for now). In the medium-size and large Weather widgets, you...

Safari logo on browsing history page

Recovering Deleted Safari Browsing History on a Mac

Over the years, we've provided a lot of tips on how to recover space on your Mac, one of which is to delete your browsing history in Safari. That's all fine and good, and it will definitely open up megabytes...

Bootable Big Sur Installer disk on a macbook pro

How to Create a Bootable USB Installer Disk for macOS Big Sur

Over the years, we’ve recommended using DiskMaker X as a quick and easy way to create a bootable install disk for various versions of macOS. Guillaume Gète, the developer of DiskMaker X, has decided to call it quits with the...

Calibrating Apple Watch Step Tracking

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...

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