Sometimes you want to paste text you’ve copied into an app such as Pages on your Mac but DON’T want the text format to carry over from its source. Conveniently, there are various ways to deal with this. When you...
You often have one chance to get a really good picture. That makes it upsetting when an opportunity is lost because tapping the Camera app shutter button blurred a photo. With this short tip, I'll offer two methods of using your voice to take a picture with the Camera app.
The other day I noticed that one of the external drive icons on my Mac Desktop had vanished. Thankfully, it’s easy to remedy this, as well as make sure your Macintosh HD is showing up. Of course, the first thing...
Apple’s myriad devices work together seamlessly — except when they don’t. I recently ran across an irritating problem in that my Mac quit allowing me to send messages in the Messages app. It took me a while to find the...
Last week, I showed you how to scan documents using the Files app on iPhone and iPad. One reader asked about how to scan photos using the Apple mobile devices, and that's the topic of today's article. Why Scan Photos?...
Though Apple slowly phased out optical drives from its Mac lineup over the years, you might still have a MacBook or desktop Mac with a disc drive. You might also have an external solution with a CD/DVD/Blu-ray drive. At some point, there’s a chance that a CD, DVD or Blu-Ray disc is going to get stuck in your Mac or external optical drive. Fortunately, there are some simple steps that can be taken to force eject a disc that’s stuck.
I have a very embarrassing admission to make: after 33 years of being a Mac user, I was completely stumped when I recently tried to force quit and restart my 2017 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar. Fortunately, I was able...
The menu bar is the thing that runs along the top of your Mac's screen where all the menus — Apple, File, Edit, History, and more — are located. You can use the menus and icons in the menu bar...
Tax time. It usually means gathering all sorts of paperwork together, stuffing it into an envelope, and then getting it to an accountant. This year, many accountants are trying to do less face-to-face, and asking clients to scan and upload...
