Catalina Quick Tip If your Mac is misbehaving, you may need to restart the Finder. But don’t confuse the Finder with the Desktop. The Finder is the first thing that you see when your Mac finishes starting up. It opens...
Catalina Quick Tip When you click a link for an email address, your Mac opens the app you've set for that kind of link. Mail is the default email app, and it works just fine for me. However, if you...
You can do fun things with your Mac, such as typing accents, emojis, and symbols. macOS Catalina includes features that make it easy to find and type special characters and currency symbols. You can use the Character Viewer to insert...
Apple unleashed an avalanche of updates today that are designed to not only fix the usual leftover bugs from previous OS releases but add features to devices, including the new iPad Pro announced earlier this week. As many people are...
Catalina Quick Tip My wife’s Mac’s desktop is so cluttered with files and folders that it’s impossible to see the desktop image. Mine isn’t. If yours isn’t and you want to change the desktop picture, it’s easy to do. In...
Apple’s AirDrop feature is a great way to share files with macOS Catalina. It lets you send documents, photos, webpages, map locations, and more to anyone near you, wirelessly. You can send and receive items between Macs and iOS devices...
Recently I've noticed a number of software developers taking advantage of macOS Catalina users who previously used iTunes to back up their iPhones and iPads. How are they taking advantage of these folks? By charging up to $100 for apps that essentially perform a function that is built into Catalina. In this article, I'll show you just how easy it is to use the Finder in macOS Catalina to back up an iPhone.
macOS includes a "Tags" feature that offers a convenient way to organize your files. Whether they are on your Mac or in iCloud, you can find them with a click. This is how you create them...
Starting with Mac OS X El Capitan, the Mail app added support for more gesture controls than before. Add your accounts to Mail and you’ll be able to access all your email from one place, then use swipe gestures to...
