Dial Phone Calls Directly from iOS Calendar Events
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Imagine that you’re adding a calendar event for a meeting with a contractor, and you want to make it easy to call them if you are running late...
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Say “Cheese!” Tips for Taking Mac and iOS Screenshots
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macOS and iOS have both long included built-in screenshot features that make it easy to take a high-resolution picture of what you see onscreen. (You can, of course, use a camera to take a photo of your screen, but that will never look as good.)
Read MoreUse This Site to Troubleshoot Netflix Streaming Problems
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Whether you watch Netflix on your iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple TV, the quality of the video—and whether it stutters or skips—is determined by the bandwidth of your Internet connection...
Read MoreSo What Is a Retina Display, Anyway?
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You’ve seen the term in Mac names—iMac with 5K Retina display, MacBook Pro with Retina display, and so on. But what is a Retina display, and why should you care? The short answer is Retina displays are high-resolution screens on which graphics are extra sharp and text is super crisp. Here’s the longer answer...
Read MoreWant to Strip Styles when Pasting Text on the Mac?
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When you copy text from a Web page, PDF, or word processing document, macOS usually includes the associated formatting, so the words you paste may end up in 37-point red underline if that was what the source text looked like. That might be okay, but more often you want the text to take on the styling of the text where you’re planning to paste it...
Read MoreGoldilocks and the Three PDF Apps: Which Is Right for You?
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PDFs are everywhere these days. Scanners generally create documents in PDF, ebooks are often distributed in PDF, and government agencies make their paper forms available as interactive PDFs...
Read MoreHow to Find Buried Options in the iOS Settings App
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iOS offers about 40 top-level categories in its Settings app and countless options in those categories. How can you find a little-used setting, particularly since Apple sometimes moves options during major iOS releases?
Read MoreApple Wows at WWDC with the New HomePod, iMacs, iPad Pros, and OSes
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Apple used the keynote address at its annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in early June to unveil new versions of macOS, iOS, and watchOS, new iMacs and faster notebooks, and new iPad Pros...
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