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You may have a printer with a built-in scanner, or perhaps even a dedicated scanner. But if you don’t — and you have an iPhone or iPad running the latest operating system versions — your Apple mobile devices can step in as a perfectly capable document scanner. We’ll show you how!
Pages in macOS conveniently allows you to add “hot links” to its documents. You can link to webpages or other Pages documents. To link to a webpage or email: Select the text that you wish to link. From the toolbar,...
Time Machine is certainly an easy-to-use app for backing up your data. It's free, and comes installed and ready to use with the Mac OS. In many of our Rocket Yard guides, we’ve often suggested that you perform a backup...
If you have a new 16-inch MacBook Pro, want to use it with a big external display, and (like me) can't afford Apple’s $5,000 Pro Display XDR, arguably the best choice is the LG UltraFine 5K Display. It doesn't have...
Using an external device as your Mac’s primary startup device can offer a number of advantages, as we outlined in Using an External Drive as Your Startup Drive: Part 1. This can include having increased storage space, faster performance, the ability...
I recently purchased a new Mac. I used Migration Assistant to move over apps, preferences, etc. to it. However, whenever I tried to launch an AppleScript, it said I couldn’t because the utility didn’t have permission for assistive access on my Mac. You may run across this occasionally. Sometimes you have to control apps by manipulating their user interfaces with special AppleScript scripts that mimic an active user via the system’s accessibility frameworks. Make sure you trust any app or tool that asks you to do this. If you do have that trust, here's how.
