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Search for Text on a Web Page in Safari with iOS 8 and iOS 7

Oct 3, 2013 - 15 Comments
Safari icon

Finding words and searching for text directly on webpages in Safari post iOS 8 and iOS 7 has changed slightly, and though there seems to be significant confusion about how to use the new find words and phrases feature, rest assured the feature has not been removed from Safari, the find feature is just accessed … Read More

How to Enable NTFS Write Support in Mac OS X

Oct 2, 2013 - 66 Comments
NTFS write support in Mac OS X

Mac OS X has always been able to read NTFS drives, but tucked away in Mac OS X is a hidden option to enable write support to drives formatted as NTFS (NTFS stands for New Technology File System and is a proprietary file system format for Microsoft Windows). Enabling NTFS write support on the Mac … Read More

Listen to iTunes Radio from Outside the USA with a New Apple ID

Oct 1, 2013 - 5 Comments
iTunes Radio

iTunes Radio is an excellent streaming music service from Apple. We’ve covered a few different tweaks and tips for the service recently, but at the moment the Radio feature is limited to USA-based users. But for international readers, rather than waiting for the rollout to arrive at your location, you can use a simple trick … Read More

View Time Stamps for Messages on iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch

Oct 1, 2013 - 1 Comment
View time stamps for messages

The Messages app for iOS now gives everyone the ability to see time stamps for any sent message or received message directly in the app. This lets you know exact times of correspondence when any message was sent or received, providing the precise hour and minute for each individual element of dialog. This is a … Read More

configd: Fixing High CPU Usage Problems with the configd Process in Mac OS X

Sep 30, 2013 - 3 Comments
Fix configd gone wild in Mac OS X

configd is a system configuration daemon that runs behind Mac OS X, most users will never notice or see the core OS X process running in the background of their Macs. With that said, configd can sometimes act up and cause unusual CPU spikes and fan activity making your Mac sound like a wind tunnel. … Read More

Dismiss Notifications Instantly in iOS with a Swipe

Sep 30, 2013 - 3 Comments
Dismiss Notifications instantly with a swipe up

iOS Notifications can be both extremely useful and persistently obnoxious, depending on what the alerts are for and when they come across your screen. For the times when they’re on the obnoxious end of the spectrum, in your way of doing something on your iPhone or iPad, you’ll be happy to discover that now in … Read More

Convert an Image into Black & White with Preview in Mac OS X

Sep 30, 2013 - 8 Comments
Black and white image conversion in Mac OS X with Preview app

Want to convert a color picture to a beautiful black and white version? Believe it or not, you don’t need any fancy apps like Adobe Photoshop, Pixelmator, or even iPhoto to convert images into black and white, all you need is Preview, which is the preinstalled basic image viewing Mac app that comes with Mac … Read More

How to Quit Apps in iOS 8 & iOS 7

Sep 28, 2013 - 1 Comment
How to Quit Apps in iOS 9

Quitting out of running apps in modern versions of iOS is a bit different than it was before, but once you get the hang of using the new multitasking screen, you’ll find the change is for the better. Not only can you use this to close out of a single app, but with a simple … Read More

List All Apps Downloaded from the Mac App Store via Command Line

Sep 28, 2013 - Leave a Comment
List Mac App Store apps from the Terminal

A handy terminal command will show a list of all apps installed on a Mac that have come exclusively from the Mac App Store. This can be helpful for a variety of reasons, like when building a list of apps you may want to replace from outside the official App Store channels if you’re migrating … Read More

How to Delete Messages in iOS 12, iOS 11, iOS 10, iOS 9, iOS 8, & iOS 7

Sep 27, 2013 - 4 Comments
Delete an entire message from iOS 7

The Messages app received a significant makeover in iOS, and like many other elements of iOS some of it’s functionality changed as well. Many users have noticed that the behavior to delete messages has changed, leading some to believe the deletion feature was removed from Messages entirely (it wasn’t). Let’s review how to remove segments … Read More

Stop Control Center from Appearing in Games & Apps Accidentally in iOS 7

Sep 27, 2013 - Leave a Comment
Prevent accidental Control Center access

Control Center is one of the better features introduced to the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch post iOS 7, but because it is accessed with a swipe up gesture it can be fairly easy to accidentally trigger. This is especially true in games where a lot of swiping goes on (like Fruit Ninja), but it … Read More

Recover Files & Data from a Failing Hard Drive in Mac OS X the Simple Way

Sep 26, 2013 - 6 Comments
Hard drive failing

Hard drive failures are never fun but they are a fact of computing life whether you use a Mac or PC. Sometimes drives can truck along for many years before going bad, and other times you wind up with a drive that goes kaput after just a few months of normal use. Regardless of when … Read More

iOS 7.0.2 Update Available with Bug Fixes [Direct Download Links]

Sep 26, 2013 - Leave a Comment
iOS 7.0.2 Update OTA

Apple has released iOS 7.0.2 for compatible iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch keyboards, a minor update that apps that is primarily a security release. The update resolves a series of bugs that could have potentially allowed someone to bypass the lock screen passcode on iOS 7 devices, and it also reincludes Greek keyboard support for … Read More

Shoot Photos in Burst Mode with the iPhone Camera

Sep 25, 2013 - 8 Comments
Burst mode camera on the iPhone

Continuous burst mode is a camera feature that rapidly takes a bunch of photos in sequence. It’s a new camera feature that has been toted with the iPhone 5S, but lesser known is that all iPhone models get a variation of this burst mode on their cameras too thanks to the iOS software update. Burst … Read More

Adjust iTunes Radio Stations to Play Hits, a Variety, or Discovery

Sep 25, 2013 - Leave a Comment
iTunes Radio

The iTunes Radio music service offers a great way to listen to your favorite songs and also find new music, and with some minor adjustments you can tune any station to prefer either the hits, wander more into discovery, or a mixture of the both. These three tuning settings are named appropriately, and can be … Read More

5 Command Key Tricks for OS X to Improve Your Mac Workflow

Sep 24, 2013 - 1 Comment
Command key tricks for OS X

The Mac command key, sitting alongside the spacebar and containing that funky looking icon logo, is commonly used for initiating keyboard shortcuts throughout OS X. But that command key also has some nice usability tricks up its sleeve that are lesser known and underutilized, many of which can help with your general workflow throughout OS … Read More

How to Turn On the Camera Grid in iOS 10, iOS 9, iOS 8

Sep 24, 2013 - Leave a Comment
Camera Grid in iOS 7

The optional Camera grid overlays lines atop the viewing screen when shooting pictures on an iPhone and iPad. Dividing the screen into equal parts, it helps to take better pictures by making it simple to follow the longstanding “rule of thirds”, with the basic idea being to align compositional elements to the grid, lining up … Read More

Fix iMessage and FaceTime Activation Errors with iOS 15, iOS 14, iOS 13, iOS 12, etc

Sep 23, 2013 - 9 Comments
Fixing an iMessage Activation error

Some iOS and iPadOS users have reported problems activating iMessage and FaceTime on their freshly updated iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch devices. Some of the initial activation errors were probably due to immense simultaneous demand being placed on Apple servers, but since some people are still experiencing this problem after the initial iOS update release … Read More

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