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Touch ID with Fingerprint

How to Set Up Touch ID and Add Fingerprints on Mac Laptops

I recently purchased a 16-inch MacBook and immediately enabled Touch ID, which is available on most MacBook Pros and the latest MacBook Air. It lets you quickly unlock your Mac and make purchases using your Apple ID and Apple Pay with your fingerprint.

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Spam Control: Chapter 2 – Reducing Spam Text Messages

In the first article in this series, we told you what spam is and why it's a good thing to keep under control. From that article, you may assume that spam is strictly an email issue. That assumption is wrong...

Activity Monitor - Energy, Disk & Network

Using Activity Monitor Part 2: Energy, Disk, and Network

The Activity Monitor app can be used to troubleshoot your Mac, as well as evaluate how well your Mac is performing overall or with specific running processes (apps). In Using Activity Monitor Part 2, we’ll take a look at using this utility to explore your Mac's energy use, disk performance, and network performance.

iCloud icon on a Mac Dock

How to Add iCloud Drive to the macOS Dock

I don’t know about you, but I use Apple’s iCloud Drive a lot. Subscribing to a full 2TB of storage for my wife and me, we store everything out there — scanned documents, all of our photos, you name it. On the iPhone and iPad, there’s a Files app that gives you one-tap access to iCloud Drive and any other local files or cloud services, but there’s no such app for Mac. In this short article, I’ll show you how easy it is to add an iCloud Drive Button to the macOS Dock for one-click access to your content in the cloud.

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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...

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