As soon as the crowd departed from the keynote hall at WWDC 2018 on Monday, Apple made the first beta versions of iOS 12 and its other operating systems available to developers. Today we’re taking a first look at some...
Yesterday's announcements at the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) keynote address were remarkable in one aspect: unlike past years, there were absolutely no hardware announcements of any sort. That flew in the face of expectations; many in the Apple blogosphere...
Last week, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released a statement saying that all consumers and small businesses should reboot their Wi-Fi routers and NAS devices. If you haven't yet taken the time to do this, check the rest of...
Securely wiping a drive, removing all of its data, and ensuring that no meaningful information can be recovered, has long been a feature of Disk Utility and its erase function. Even though the default for Disk Utility is a simple...
On Friday, May 25, 2018, a new regulation known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) begins being enforced in the European Union countries. You've probably had your email inbox inundated recently with messages about revised privacy policies as companies act...
Disk First Aid, currently part of Disk Utility, has long been the go-to utility for verifying and repairing a Mac's storage system. Included as a standalone app with the original Mac OS, it was later folded into Disk Utility when...
After all the many years that we've had personal computers available, printing documents is still one of the more frustrating parts of the computing experience. Rather than just being able to send any document to a printer and have it...
Apple's Safari web browser for macOS and iOS has a variety of amazing features that are often overlooked by users. One of the more powerful features is something called "Safari Suggestions," which captures what you are typing into the search/address...
Since the 2017 Apple World Wide Developers Conference, it's been well-known that Apple will require all developers to submit only 64-bit apps to the Mac App Store. Starting on June 4, 2018, all Mac apps and updates to existing apps must...
