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How to Enable Family Sharing for Apple News+ on macOS Catalina

With a subscription to Apple News+, you can access hundreds of magazines, newspapers, and digital publishers in the News app on your Mac, iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. And if you use Family Sharing, everyone in your family automatically has access after you subscribe. Apple News+ now has over 100 million active users for its catalog of over 3,000 publications. The...

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How to Create Touch Bar Screenshots on a MacBook Pro

Apple’s controversial Touch Bar on some Mac laptops is actually a second, mini-display. Which means you can take a screenshot of whatever it’s displaying. Some folks think the Touch Bar is a waste of space and don't like that it adds to the ticket price of the Mac laptop. However, I find it fairly useful.

Spell Check 101: Apple Apps

Cn u spel OK? Fortunately, Apple has created a spell checking capability that works well in just about any Apple app. Whether you're using Pages, Numbers, Keynote, TextEdit, Mail, Messages or Safari on your Mac, the same spell check tool comes to your rescue to ensure perfectly spelled documents. Let's take a look.

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Using Activity Monitor Part 1: CPU and Memory

Activity Monitor is one of my favorite apps, although when my Mac is running as it should, I hardly ever use it. But when there’s a need to troubleshoot problems, check performance, or see if an upgrade, such as additional RAM or...

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How to Mute and Unmute Audio in Safari Tabs

If you're having problems with sound on some web pages when using macOS’s Safari (or simply don’t want to hear audio on a particular web page) the web browser lets you mute audio in any open tabs. Here's how...

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Quick Tip: How to Sign a PDF in macOS Catalina Mail

Like me, you've probably had a PDF emailed to you that you need to sign. It’s a pain to print it, sign it, then scan it in order to send it back. Thankfully, there’s a better way. You can actually sign it right in the Mac Mail app.

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