Overloaded by Work Email? Give the Slack Messaging Tool a Try.
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Is email overwhelming your organization? Look to Slack to make your internal communications, faster, more transparent, and more efficient. Here’s the scoop.
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What Is the Best Hard Drive to Use for Your Backups?
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When it comes to losing data, the question is when it will happen, not if it will happen. Everyone loses data eventually. Smart people have backups. Here’s how to pick the right backup drive for your needs.
Read MoreMoment Helps You Gauge Your iPhone Use and Offers Parental Oversight Option
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Bothered by how much you find yourself using your iPhone for social media? Use the Moment app to quantify the problem. An added subscription can also help an entire family reduce excessive iPhone use.
Read More10 Things You Need to Know about Apple's New HomePod Speaker
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Apple’s new HomePod smart speaker is garnering praise for its audio quality, but did you know it can work as a speakerphone or outboard speaker for your Apple TV? Read on for other important pros and cons to the HomePod.
Read MoreApple Introduces New iPad with Apple Pencil Support, Updates iWork
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Apple has introduced a new 9.7-inch iPad that’s faster than the previous model, takes Live Photos, and supports the Apple Pencil. And you can now use the Apple Pencil in the new Pages, Numbers, and Keynote!
Read MoreApple's Family Sharing Simplifies Sharing Purchases and Managing Kid Capabilities
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If your family relies on a collection of Apple devices, Family Sharing is an easily enabled option that lets your family members share purchased apps and media, and keep track of where everyone is.
Read MoreBlock Telemarketing Calls Automatically on Your iPhone
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Junk calls are one of the great annoyances of the modern world. You’re minding your own business when your iPhone vibrates in your pocket. You pull it out, curious as to who’s calling, but don’t recognize the number...
Read MoreCall 911! Or, with an iPhone or Apple Watch, Invoke Emergency SOS.
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Have you ever needed to call emergency services from your or someone else’s iPhone? Almost by definition, such calls take place at stressful times, and it can be hard to remember what to do. Or, if you’ve been in an accident, it might be difficult or impossible to navigate the iPhone’s interface. In iOS 10.2 and watchOS 3 and later, Apple added the Emergency SOS feature to help...
Read MoreRansomware: Should You Be Worried, and What Protective Steps Should You Take?
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Malware makes headlines regularly these days, and although Macs are targeted far less than Windows PCs, Mac users still need to remain vigilant...
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Five Things You Should Never Do with Passwords (and Three You Should)
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Passwords are the bane of our modern existence. Nearly anything you want to do, it seems, calls for a password. As the Internet’s reach extends beyond computers and into phones, TVs, appliances, and even toys, we have to enter passwords with increasing frequency and in ever more annoying ways.
Read MoreWho Should Buy the New iMac Pro?
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Apple’s new iMac Pro has started shipping, and it’s an astonishing machine. Put simply, it’s the most powerful Mac ever, a title it will likely retain until Apple releases a new version of the Mac Pro, promised for sometime in 2018. But for now, what’s special about the iMac Pro, and should you buy one?
Read MoreWatch Out for Phishing Attacks Hidden in Your Email
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One of the most important things you can do to stay safe on the Internet is to be careful while reading email. That’s because online criminals know that we’re all busy, and we often don’t pay enough attention to what we’re reading or where we’re clicking...
Read MoreWhat You Need to Know about Face ID on the iPhone X
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Apple’s new iPhone X does away with the Home button, which has been a fixture since the original iPhone and has long served as the Touch ID sensor...
Read MoreMake Your Holiday Cards with Apple’s Photos App This Year
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It’s that time of year again, when we realize that if we’re going to do holiday cards, we should get started. You can take the easy way out and buy a few packs of generic reindeer cards at the drugstore, but with a little work in Apple’s Photos app on the Mac, you can instead send cards personalized with your favorite family photos from the past year. Here’s how...
Read MorePrint Labels for Your Holiday Cards with Apple’s Contacts App
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If mailing your holiday cards (which you printed from Photos, right?) is made harder by having to write addresses on envelopes, you can skip the handwriting step this year with mailing labels. Although many people don’t realize this, it’s easy to print mailing labels on standard label stock using the Contacts app on the Mac. You can even add a personal touch by including a graphic and using a custom color and font choice. Here’s what you need to do...
Read MoreThe Swipes You Need to Know to Multitask in iOS 11 on an iPad
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With iOS 11, the iPhone and iPad interfaces continue to diverge, which makes sense, since the iPad is not merely an overgrown iPhone. Particularly when you pair an iPad Pro with a Smart Keyboard and Apple Pencil, you can now get real work done on an iPad more fluidly than ever before...
Read MoreThe Best Apple-Related Gifts for 2017
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It’s that time of year again, when many of us start wracking our brains for gift ideas for our loved ones—or for our own wish lists. If your special someone is an Apple user, we have a few suggestions...
Read MoreWhat Is a Fusion Drive, and Why Should You Care?
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There are two basic types of storage devices available today: hard disk drives and solid-state drives. For the lowest cost per gigabyte, you can’t go wrong with a hard drive, and they come in truly massive sizes—up to a whopping 8 terabytes. However, they’re relatively slow...
Read MorePlease, Please, Use iOS 11’s Do Not Disturb While Driving Feature
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Distracted driving may not make headlines, but it’s a huge problem. In the United States in 2015, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says that 391,000 people were injured and 3477 killed in accidents caused by distracted driving...
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