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A runners guide for Apple Watch: 7 tips to extend battery life, improve tracking, and more

Friday, July 27, 2018 10:00 amFriday, July 27, 20183 Comments

Whether you’re a seasoned runner training for your race, or just getting started on your jogging journey, the Apple Watch can help…

How to install Apple’s macOS Mojave on unsupported Macs

Wednesday, July 25, 2018 5:14 pm18 Comments

There is now a way to ignore Apple and install macOS Mojave on any Mac…

How to back up your Mac, and why you should do it now

Monday, July 23, 2018 5:00 pm10 Comments

If you needed one more nudge, Apple has just made it slightly harder to recover lost data…

How to deal with robocalls on your iPhone

Monday, July 23, 2018 1:01 pmMonday, July 23, 20187 Comments

Spam robocalls are getting more and more common…

Is your Mac showing random black boxes in photos? Here’s the fix

Thursday, July 19, 2018 1:43 pm3 Comments

Here’s a problem that could cause a panic…

How to make an anonymous call from your iPhone

Monday, July 16, 2018 4:00 pmMonday, July 16, 20186 Comments

If you want to make a call but don’t want to let the giant marketing company / slightly weird stranger…

How to use Apple Maps more effectively

Monday, July 16, 2018 1:00 pm10 Comments

While we wait for Apple to implement its promised deep changes to Map…

7 things to consider before buying an aftermarket CarPlay receiver

Friday, July 13, 2018 5:33 pmFriday, July 13, 201813 Comments

Most new vehicles are equipped with Bluetooth technology…

Check to see if your older Mac Pro supports macOS Mojave Dark Mode

Thursday, July 12, 2018 3:30 pmThursday, July 12, 201811 Comments

Apple has already informed developers of which Mac hardware will be supported under macOS Mojave…

How to use Live Listen with Apple’s AirPods

Tuesday, July 10, 2018 9:57 amTuesday, July 10, 20183 Comments

Your AirPods can function as hearing aids thanks to ‘Live Listen’ in iOS 12…

How to free up space on your Mac

Friday, July 6, 2018 4:00 pmFriday, July 6, 20181 Comment

Apple added new tools in 2016 with the release of macOS Sierra…

The best Kodi add-ons for Mac in 2018 and how to stay safe

Friday, July 6, 2018 2:27 pmFriday, July 6, 20181 Comment

The open-source media center software Kodi has been around for years, providing countless users with a fast and easy-to-use platform…

How to use Apple’s new Continuity Camera feature in macOS Mojave

Friday, July 6, 2018 2:02 pmFriday, July 6, 2018No Comments

In macOS Mojave, Apple has extended its Continuity features so that now you can use your iPhone or iPad’s camera…

How to share Animoji or Memoji to any social network

Thursday, July 5, 2018 4:00 pmThursday, July 5, 20182 Comments

You don’t have to keep Animoji confined to iMessage conversations…

How to run Fortnite on your Macintosh

Thursday, July 5, 2018 10:55 amThursday, July 5, 20183 Comments

So, you want to play Fortnite on Mac…

How to install Kodi on your Mac

Tuesday, July 3, 2018 11:39 am4 Comments

Kodi is one of the most popular media center managers around….

How to use Apple’s new Finder in macOS Mojave

Friday, June 29, 2018 3:01 pmFriday, June 29, 20186 Comments

Finder, the file management app at the core of macOS, has more or less stayed the same over the years…

Apple TV first gen: Apple’s improper abandonment and what to do

Tuesday, June 26, 2018 3:33 pmTuesday, June 26, 201818 Comments

Apple left the 1st Generation Apple TV behind as of May 25, 2018…

How to turn off System Integrity Protection in macOS

Tuesday, June 26, 2018 2:27 pmTuesday, June 26, 20184 Comments

System Integrity Protection (SIP) is a security feature of macOS originally introduced in OS X El Capitan…

How and why you should use text clippings on your Mac

Thursday, June 21, 2018 2:27 pmThursday, June 21, 20187 Comments

Mac users have been able to create and use text clippings since the last century and Mac OS 9…

Is building a Hackintosh worth the effort?

Wednesday, June 20, 2018 12:04 pmWednesday, June 20, 201817 Comments

Macs can be expensive, but they work out of the box and we know that apps such as Final Cut Pro X…

How to do a clean install of macOS High Sierra

Wednesday, June 20, 2018 10:28 amWednesday, June 20, 20186 Comments

Downloading and installing a new OS gives you the opportunity to do some major house cleaning if you so desire…

How to prepare your Mac for the macOS Mojave public beta

Tuesday, June 19, 2018 12:02 pmTuesday, June 19, 20184 Comments

As soon as the macOS Mojave beta goes public, it is open to anyone willing to…

Macworld reviews LifeFlix 2.5: Your old Mini-DV camcorder’s new best friend

Monday, June 18, 2018 4:28 pmMonday, June 18, 201810 Comments

If you shot home videos between 1995 and 2010, there’s a good chance you did so with a tape-based Mini-DV camcorder…

A bug in Apple Mac’s ‘Quick Look’ feature leaks encrypted data, researchers find

Monday, June 18, 2018 3:30 pmMonday, June 18, 20185 Comments

A bug in macOS can expose the contents of a user’s files, including document text and photo thumbnails…

How to set up your home network for many Apple TVs, Macs, iPhones, and iPads

Tuesday, June 12, 2018 11:00 amSaturday, November 17, 20184 Comments

Maybe you can get away with a single Wi-Fi basestation, if you have modest needs, but…

iOS 12 beta: Should you install it?

Monday, June 11, 2018 1:26 pmMonday, June 11, 20184 Comments

There’s a hack floating around the internet on how to get the iOS 12 beta today…

Here are all of the new iOS 12 Settings you should know about

Friday, June 8, 2018 3:25 pmFriday, June 8, 20187 Comments

Almost every cool new iOS feature comes with a settings component that you can tweak and iOS 12 is no exception,…

How Apple’s upgraded Finder works in macOS Mojave

Thursday, June 7, 2018 11:28 amThursday, June 7, 20189 Comments

Some of the more notable updates in macOS 10.14 Mojave came to the Finder..

Duck, cover, and reboot your router? Why the FBI’s new warning is no joke

Friday, June 1, 2018 11:43 am23 Comments

Last week, the FBI released a statement that shocked many…

Apple’s new ‘Messages in iCloud’ works only on iOS devices, not Macs, yet

Wednesday, May 30, 2018 9:25 amWednesday, May 30, 201811 Comments

Despite the fact that Apple pushed out iOS 11.4 on May 29 to iPads and iPhones…

How to turn on Apple’s new Messages in iCloud

Tuesday, May 29, 2018 5:30 pmWednesday, May 30, 201819 Comments

With the release of iOS 11.4, Messages in iCloud, which keeps your iMessage and SMS messages in sync…

Cryptominer ‘mshelper’ targets macOS: What you need to know

Tuesday, May 29, 2018 4:55 pmTuesday, May 29, 201811 Comments

Mac fans spinning unusually fast, computers running hotter than usual and performance taking a hit…

Beware SATA III drives in SATA II Macs

Friday, May 25, 2018 12:02 pmFriday, May 25, 20185 Comments

SATA standards are all backwards compatible, right? Well, not necessarily…

Secret iPhone tips and tricks you may not know about

Thursday, May 24, 2018 2:30 pmThursday, May 24, 2018No Comments

Whether you’ve got the cutting-edge iPhone X or one of the earlier models…

How to remove Mac cryptominer malware ‘mshelper’ that kills your battery and CPU

Thursday, May 24, 2018 1:32 pmThursday, May 24, 201812 Comments

Cryptojacking is designed to mine cryptocurrency on your computer without your knowledge

How to install macOS on a VM to run your 32-bit apps

Tuesday, May 22, 2018 10:43 amTuesday, May 22, 20182 Comments

Back in April of 2018 and depending upon the software you run, you may have noticed a message pop up…

Why are my parents’ iPhones all synced up?

Friday, May 18, 2018 12:03 pm14 Comments

That’s going to be complete chaos to manage on two ‘separate’ devices that, to Apple, appears as one person’s two devices…

How to check for – and remove – the Mac malware mshelper

Friday, May 18, 2018 10:32 am14 Comments

If your Mac seems to be running at high fan rates or you’re seeing reduced battery-life…

How to password protect files and folders on your Mac

Thursday, May 17, 2018 3:29 pmThursday, May 17, 20186 Comments

The truth is that your Mac is only as secure as…

Give your old Mac software eternal life

Wednesday, May 16, 2018 11:05 amWednesday, May 16, 201815 Comments

Don’t fear the death of your old software, my friends…

Popular encrypted email standards are unsafe – researchers

Tuesday, May 15, 2018 4:02 pmTuesday, May 15, 20182 Comments

European researchers have found that the popular PGP and S/MIME email encryption standards are vulnerable…

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