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Catalina Quick Tip: How to Use Syncing

Before macOS Catalina, you synced your iPhone or iPad with your iTunes library via iTunes. However, the iTunes app is being broken up into three separate apps as in iOS Apple TV, Apple Music, and Apple Podcasts. Now you do the syncing via...

Quick Tip: How to Speed Up Older Macs

If you’ve been using your Mac for a few years, you’ve probably noticed that it’s getting sluggish. You could buy a new Mac — and Apple would love for you to do that — but there are ways to improve...

Quick Tip: How to ‘Accept’ an App in the Mac App Store

After I bought my new iMac (and stuffed it with memory from OWC) I decided to start fresh instead of simply transferring all my data over from my older Mac. Everything went smoothly ... at first. However, when I went...

Quick Tip: Adding Searchable Comments to Any File

A growing number of people are going paperless, which means that they’re trading piles of bills, statements, and other documents for virtual file cabinets that are stuffed with the electronic equivalents. A file name like “Electric Bill 03-2018” might be...

Quick Tip: Making Sense of Mystifying Emoji

I ❤️ emoji! It's always fun to send or to friends that describe how you feel. Perhaps you're , or maybe you're feeling ☹️, or maybe it's time to go ⛳. Emoji originated on mobile phones in Japan in 1997,...

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Quick Tip: Closing All Safari Tabs At Once on an iPhone

One of the most common questions I get from iPhone and iPad users has to do with Apple's Safari web browser. Especially on the iPhone where there are no visible tabbed web sessions (in other words, you only see one tab...

Quick Tip: Using Spotlight to Get a Weather Forecast

Especially in the winter months, it's helpful to get up-to-date weather forecasts while you're working on your Mac. After all, if a blizzard is on the way or the polar vortex is pushing the temperature down to double-digit negative numbers,...

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