With macOS High Sierra and later, the Contacts app automatically creates a contact card for you—called your me card—when you set up your Mac. Information on your card, such as your name, email address, or picture (if you add one),...
I have six email addresses: five business ones and one personal address. If I don’t set a default mail account, each time I write a new email it's sent from one of my business addresses. If I want to send...
In about two months, macOS Monterey comes out of beta testing and into the hands of Mac users. For those who can’t wait to give Monterey a try but don’t want to risk running a beta operating system on their...
Apple’s App Tracking Transparency allows you to choose whether to allow an app to track your activity across other companies’ apps and websites for advertising or purposes. However, it doesn’t stop the tracking in your macOS Mail’s email inbox. Unsolicited marketing...
On June 7 at the 2021 (virtual) Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple previewed the next version of the Mac operating system: macOS Monterey. Interestingly, some of its features will be for M1 Macs only. That includes the 24-inch iMac, M1 iMac...
Siri, Apple’s “personal digital assistant,” is pretty handy. But what if you don’t like the default voice of the "personal digital assistant”? No problem, you can change it on a Mac running macOS Sierra or later, as well as tweak other settings. Here's how...
The Accessibility Keyboard is an on-screen keyboard that lets you type and perform other actions on macOS without using your Mac's hardware keyboard. And it can be very useful for some folks, especially anyone who has trouble using a physical...
Over the years, many have speculated over the possibility of Apple merging their two popular platforms: iOS and macOS. Microsoft offers touch-compatible Surface devices, and Apple added mouse support to iOS. Apple also delivered the ability for the Mac to...
Starting with macOS Catalina, iTunes was broken up into separate apps: Apple Music (where your iTunes media library is located), Apple TV (the app, not the set-top box or streaming service — yes, it’s confusing), Apple Books app, and Apple Podcasts app. The result was some tweaks to the way playlists were handled. But, not to worry, it’s still relatively easy.
