To use Siri, Apple’s “personal digital assistant,” on your Mac, you can click on the icon in the upper right corner of your screen to activate it. But wouldn’t it be nice if, like on an iPhone and Apple Watch, you could simply say “Hey, Siri” to fire it up? You can, though it takes a few steps.
macOS Quick Look is a wonderful feature. Introduced on June 11, 2007, along with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Quick Look can preview files such as Pages, Keynote, Numbers, Microsoft Office, PDFs, HTML, QuickTime readable media, plain text, and RTF text documents, and RAW camera images.
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.
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...
Like me, you've probably had a PDF emailed to you that you need to sign. It’s a pain to print it, sign it, then scan it in order to send it back. Thankfully, there’s a better way. You can actually sign it right in the Mac Mail app.
macOS’s Night Shift is a feature brought over from iOS starting with macOS High Sierra. It helps you reduce the amount of blue light you're exposed to during the evening by shifting the display of your Mac to a more...
My recent experience with water damage to my new 16-inch MacBook Pro reinforced two practices that I've followed for many years; making a bootable backup and creating a bootable macOS install drive. While I was able to reload my MacBook...
With macOS Mojave, Apple has added support for favicons (short for "favorite icons”) in Safari tabs. Favicons are those little icons that let you quickly identify which of your open tabs is which website. A favicon is a file containing...
"Stacks" is a feature introduced in macOS Leopard (although the official name at the time was Mac OS X Leopard). It was available in the Dock, but nowhere else. The feature "Stacked" files into a small organized folder on the...
