Here's How to Hide All Windows on Your Mac So You Can Work on the Desktop
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If your Mac is anything like ours, you end up with lots of apps open, each with one or more windows that obscure the Desktop.
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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.
Read MoreFix a Frozen Finder with This Quick Tip
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Finder freezes. They shouldn’t happen at all, and they don’t happen often, but it’s not unheard of for your Mac’s Finder to freeze, freak out, or otherwise stop responding properly.
Read MoreWhat 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 MoreEnable Theater Mode to Prevent Your Apple Watch from Lighting Up at a Show
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Attend any live theater presentation, and someone will ask the audience to silence their cell phones. But what about your Apple Watch?
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 MoreNeed to Do Some Simple Math? Get Siri to Do It!
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If you’re reading this, chances are good that you’re not in elementary school, but it’s still easy to end up with a bunch of numbers you need to calculate...
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 MoreiCloud Photo Library Users: Do NOT Turn Off iCloud
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File this warning under “unless it’s absolutely necessary.” If you use iCloud Photo Library on your Mac, don’t sign out from iCloud...
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 MoreTrading Faces: Picking a Better Face for People Photos Recognizes
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Apple’s Photos app is remarkably good at identifying people in your snapshots and collecting all the pictures that contain a particular person into a group in its People view...
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 MoreSwipe Back and Forth between Web Pages for Easier Navigation
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For navigation, every Web browser offers back and forward buttons, generally represented by arrows in the upper left of the toolbar...
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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Having Trouble Switching Apps on the iPhone X? Try This.
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Since the iPhone X lacks a Home button to press twice for the app switcher, you’ll need to switch apps in a new way...
Read MoreFive 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 MoreApple Lowers Battery-Replacement Pricing for iPhone 6 and Later
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Did you hear about the battery-related controversy swirling around Apple at the end of 2017? There has been much hue and cry about how, starting with iOS 10.2.1, iOS has been slowing down iPhones with old, weak batteries to avoid unexpected shutdowns...
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