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Having a Hard Time Installing Your OS On a New Drive? Check the Clock

So, you’ve upgraded the hard drive on your Mac. But when you try to install Yosemite, you run into trouble: a message stating, “An error occurred while preparing the installation.” While that’s a vague message that could mean just about anything, OWC customer Jack H. points out that it could be just a matter of time. Your Mac’s clock, that...

iOS Battery Usage

Quick Tip: How to Find Out Which iOS Apps Are Using the Most Power

Our recent post about sending your location from Messages brought a good comment from reader Carol P., who asked "How does this impact battery life? Especially sharing location indefinitely?" While it's hard to know exactly how much of an impact location...

Send or share your location

Quick Tip: Sending Your location with Messages

Sending your location to another person can be handy... and even a lifesaver if you happen to be injured on a trail or off a road but can still use your iPhone. In this quick tip, you'll see just how easy...

Keep Messages Setting

Quick iOS Tip: Deleting Text Messages Automatically

Our iOS devices can sometimes act like candidates for a TV show on hoarding. If you don't watch out, it's easy to run out of valuable storage space on the devices. My wife and I tend to text a lot during a normal...

Launchpad on an iMac

Quick Tip: The Five-Finger Pinch on Your Trackpad

Today I have a quick tip for those of you who either use a MacBook or an Apple Magic Trackpad with a desktop machine. I'm one of those people who is sadly pre-programmed to do things a certain way. In...

Tech Tip: The Telltale Signs of Handoff

One of the more intriguing features that appeared with iOS 8 and Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite was something called Continuity, the ability for iOS and OS X apps to communicate with each other to create a seamless flow of...

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