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September 05, 2024

Set macOS to Require a Password after Screen Saver Start or Display Sleep

September 05, 2024/ Tom Puls
Set macOS to Require a Password after Screen Saver Start or Display Sleep

Don’t forget about local security on your Mac. Make sure to require a password shortly after the screen saver starts or the display sleeps to prevent people from riffling through your email, photos, messages, and more.

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September 05, 2024/ Tom Puls/
Tips
macOS
August 28, 2024

Having Trouble with a Public Wi-Fi Network’s Captive Portal Login Page?

August 28, 2024/ Tom Puls
Having Trouble with a Public Wi-Fi Network’s Captive Portal Login Page?

When you connect to a public Wi-Fi network, you often must authenticate or agree to terms on a captive portal login page. Here’s the solution if that page doesn’t appear.

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August 28, 2024/ Tom Puls/
Tips
iOS, macOS, iPadOS
August 21, 2024

Missed an Alert? Check Notification Center

August 21, 2024/ Tom Puls
Missed an Alert? Check Notification Center

If a temporary banner disappears from your iPhone, iPad, or Mac before you have a chance to read it, you can find it in Notification Center.

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August 21, 2024/ Tom Puls/
Tips
macOS
August 14, 2024

Be Careful When Scanning Unknown QR Codes

August 14, 2024/ Tom Puls
Be Careful When Scanning Unknown QR Codes

QR codes—those blocky squares you scan with your iPhone camera—are an easy way to open a Web page. Unfortunately, scammers also use them to trick people into visiting malicious websites, so read our tip about scanning these codes safely.

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August 14, 2024/ Tom Puls/
Tips
Security, iOS, iPadOS
August 07, 2024

Protect Domains That Don’t Send Email from Email Spoofing

August 07, 2024/ Tom Puls
Protect Domains That Don’t Send Email from Email Spoofing

If you have parked domains that never send email, it’s important to set up SPF, DKIM, and DMARC so scammers can’t forge legitimate-looking email from those domains.

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August 07, 2024/ Tom Puls/
Tips
email
July 24, 2024

Insert Emoji More Easily with Text Replacements

July 24, 2024/ Tom Puls
Insert Emoji More Easily with Text Replacements

Finding and entering a desired emoji can be tedious. For those you like to use regularly, creating a text replacement lets you type a few characters to get a particular emoji quickly and easily.

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July 24, 2024/ Tom Puls/
Tips
macOS, iPadOS, iOS
July 17, 2024

How to Copy an App Icon on the Mac

July 17, 2024/ Tom Puls
How to Copy an App Icon on the Mac

Have you ever wanted to use a Mac app’s icon in documentation or a Web page? It’s easy to copy a high-resolution version straight from the Finder!

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July 17, 2024/ Tom Puls/
Tips
macOS
July 10, 2024

Apple Explains Its Approach to Device Longevity

July 10, 2024/ Tom Puls
Apple Explains Its Approach to Device Longevity

Apple has published a white paper that offers an illuminating look at how the company works to increase device longevity while balancing environmental impact, protecting customer privacy and safety, and enabling transparency in repair.

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July 10, 2024/ Tom Puls/
Tips
Mac, iPhone, iPad
July 03, 2024

Remember the Magnifier App When You Need to Read Tiny Text

July 03, 2024/ Tom Puls
Remember the Magnifier App When You Need to Read Tiny Text

The built-in Magnifier app on the iPhone and iPad is a godsend when trying to make out a tiny serial number or anything else that’s too small to read easily.

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July 03, 2024/ Tom Puls/
Tips
iOS
June 26, 2024

Find Some Ham Amidst Your Email Spam

June 26, 2024/ Tom Puls
Find Some Ham Amidst Your Email Spam

Rather than frequently skimming your entire spam mailbox for incorrectly captured messages, try searching for specific keywords that are likely to appear in legitimate email.

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June 26, 2024/ Tom Puls/
Tips
email
June 19, 2024

Quickly Catalog Books or Other Named Items on Shelves

June 19, 2024/ Tom Puls
Quickly Catalog Books or Other Named Items on Shelves

You can take advantage of Apple’s Live Text feature in Photos to catalog books, boxes, or any other items with text names. Think of it as a lazy person’s ad hoc database.

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June 19, 2024/ Tom Puls/
Tips
Photos, ios, macos, iPad
June 12, 2024

Working Late on Your Mac? Turn on Night Shift to Help Your Sleep

June 12, 2024/ Tom Puls
Working Late on Your Mac? Turn on Night Shift to Help Your Sleep

If you regularly work at your Mac late at night and have trouble falling asleep, consider turning on Night Shift to reduce your blue light exposure. By default, it makes the colors of your Mac warmer from sunset to sunrise.

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June 12, 2024/ Tom Puls/
Tips
macOS
June 05, 2024

Share 2FA Setup for Team Access to a Single Account

June 05, 2024/ Tom Puls
Share 2FA Setup for Team Access to a Single Account

For better results when a team or family group needs to share 2FA codes to log in to a website, try to use an authentication app instead of SMS, or better yet, use a password manager that can both generate 2FA codes and share logins with a group.

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June 05, 2024/ Tom Puls/
Tips
macOS, iOS, iPadOS, Security
May 29, 2024

Select Non-Contiguous Text in Pages, Keynote, and Numbers 14

May 29, 2024/ Tom Puls
Select Non-Contiguous Text in Pages, Keynote, and Numbers 14

A new feature in Pages, Keynote, and Numbers lets you select bits of text that aren’t next to each other so that you can, for example, format them or copy them all at once.

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May 29, 2024/ Tom Puls/
Tips
macOS
May 22, 2024

Display an Album of Photos on Your iPhone or iPad Lock Screen

May 22, 2024/ Tom Puls
Display an Album of Photos on Your iPhone or iPad Lock Screen

If you like how the Lock Screen’s Photo Shuffle wallpaper rotates through photos but would prefer that it worked from an album you specified, you’re in luck! That’s now possible in iOS 17 and iPadOS 17.

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May 22, 2024/ Tom Puls/
Tips
iOS
May 15, 2024

Where Can You Control Automatic Smart Quotes and Dashes in macOS?

May 15, 2024/ Tom Puls
Where Can You Control Automatic Smart Quotes and Dashes in macOS?

Smart quotes and dashes usually make your text look more professional. But if they’re problematic, you can turn off the feature that inserts them automatically or revert them on a one-off basis.

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May 15, 2024/ Tom Puls/
Tips
macOS
May 08, 2024

How to Display the Battery Percentage in Your Mac’s Menu Bar

May 08, 2024/ Tom Puls
How to Display the Battery Percentage in Your Mac’s Menu Bar

If you’re tired of trying to interpret how full your MacBook’s battery is from its menu bar icon, here’s how to get it to display a percentage as well.

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May 08, 2024/ Tom Puls/
Tips
macOS
May 01, 2024

Tips for Working with Mac Display Resolutions

May 01, 2024/ Tom Puls
Tips for Working with Mac Display Resolutions

You can adjust your Mac’s screen resolution to make text and graphics larger so they’re easier to see, or if you have good vision, you can make them smaller so more content fits on the screen. Our tips will help.

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May 01, 2024/ Tom Puls/
Tips
macOS
April 24, 2024

Apple Podcasts Adds Transcripts

April 24, 2024/ Tom Puls
Apple Podcasts Adds Transcripts

Did you know Apple’s Podcasts app now includes written transcripts? Our tip helps you view the text while you listen, use it to navigate within the audio, search for specific bits, and more.

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April 24, 2024/ Tom Puls/
Tips
iOS, iPadOS, macOS
April 17, 2024

Want an Event List in Apple’s Calendar App? Try This Trick

April 17, 2024/ Tom Puls
Want an Event List in Apple’s Calendar App? Try This Trick

Want to see all your upcoming events in a list in Apple’s Calendar app on the Mac? It doesn’t have a built-in list view, but there’s a workaround.

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April 17, 2024/ Tom Puls/
Tips
macOS
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