How to Stop Instacart Ads Promo Notifications on iPhone

Nov 26, 2023 - 1 Comment
Disable Instacart Promotional and Marketing Notifications on iPhone

The Instacart app for iPhone is convenient in that it allows you to shop for groceries and other items and have them delivered (if you live in a major city anyway), but like an ever-growing number of iPhone apps, it defaults to pelting you with annoying sales, promotional, and marketing notifications that are completely unrelated … Read More

Your iPhone Will Notify You When Wi-Fi is Available Nearby to Join

Nov 25, 2023 - Leave a Comment
Available Wi-FI Network notification

Did you know your iPhone will let you know if a wi-fi network is available to join nearby? This feature of iOS is relatively new, and it’s interesting in that it will specifically focus on public wi-fi networks are popular and being used by others that are nearby.

How to Use & Access GPT-4 for Free with Bing

Nov 22, 2023 - 23 Comments
How to access GPT-4 for free with Bing

You may already be using ChatGPT, the phenomenally powerful and useful AI tool, but the free version is based on GPT-3.5. GPT-4 is said to be ten times more advanced, with enhanced creativity, reliability, up-to-date information, and an ability to interpret more nuanced instructions, so it’s understandable why users would like to explore and experience … Read More

Watch the Apple Holiday Ad for 2023: “Fuzzy Feelings”

Nov 21, 2023 - Leave a Comment
Apple Holiday Ad for 2023 features curious revenge fantasies about a boss from a woman who eventually changes her opinion after he gives her a gift of hand-made socks

Apple has debuted their annual holiday ad for the 2023 season, or “Holiday Film” as they refer to it on YouTube, perhaps because it’s nearly four minutes long. The 2023 Apple Holiday Film, titled “Fuzzy Feelings”, follows some of the typical modern media tropes, focusing on a younger woman who seems to strongly dislike her … Read More

How to Make Stickers from Photos for Messages on iPhone

Nov 14, 2023 - 3 Comments
Stickers in Messages on iPhone

Stickers are a fun and creative way to enhance your iMessage experience, and the latest versions of iOS support a feature that allow you to easily make your own stickers from any of your own photos, right from your iPhone. For example, maybe you have a picture of a great dog or cat, or yourself, … Read More

How to Turn Off Uber Promo Notifications & Ads

Nov 11, 2023 - 6 Comments
Uber

Uber and Uber Eats are undeniably useful apps, allowing you to get a ride or have food delivered quickly and conveniently, right from your iPhone (or Android) either from the app or even from Siri. But one thing that is very annoying and obnoxious about Uber and Uber Eats is that the apps default to … Read More

How to Use Standby Mode on iPhone with iOS 17

Nov 9, 2023 - 13 Comments
iPhone Standby Mode

StandBy Mode is perhaps the most interesting feature for iPhone users who update to iOS 17, transforming the iPhone into a customizable display clock whenever the iPhone is placed horizontally and is charging. With StandBy Mode, your iPhone can become a table clock, a photo frame, an information display, amongst other possibilities, and since it’s … Read More

How to Find Your Instagram Password & Username

Nov 5, 2023 - 14 Comments
Find your Instagram password and Instagram username

Instagram is one of the most popular social networks in the world, where people post and share videos, reels, pictures, and so much more. You may occasionally come across a situation where you need to find your exact Instagram username, login information, or even Instagram password, and that’s what we’re going to help you out … Read More

How to Edit Messages on WhatsApp

Nov 4, 2023 - Leave a Comment
Whatsapp iOS Icon

WhatsApp now offers the ability to edit sent messages, a convenient feature for correcting typos, errors, mistakes, or hastily sent messages that you soon regret. If you’re ever in this situation and using WhatsApp, there’s no need to freak out, because you can simply edit the message, correct or modify whatever you typed or sent, … Read More

How to Drop a Pin in Google Maps on iPhone or iPad

Nov 3, 2023 - 2 Comments
How to drop a pin in Google Maps

Dropping a pin on Google Maps allows you to mark a location on the map for sharing with others, for saving that spot for yourself to reference later, or even for getting directions to that pinned location. It’s a very useful feature of Google Maps that has wide applications, so if you’re a Google Maps … Read More

Messages Using High CPU on Mac, Slowing Performance: 6 Troubleshooting Tips

Nov 2, 2023 - 2 Comments
Messages app using high CPU slowing the Mac

If your Mac feels excessively slow at random, or unreasonably slow for seemingly no apparent reason, you may want to check to see if the Messages app is open, as the Messages app for Mac has been known to use heavy amounts of processor and system resources. Next, you can investigate Activity Monitor for CPU … Read More

Watch YouTube Without Ads with FreeTube for Mac, Windows, Linux

Oct 30, 2023 - 16 Comments
FreeTube lets you watch YouTube without ads

YouTube is the webs most popular video site by a long shot, practically serving as a television replacement for millions. But as any Youtube viewer knows, the ads can be very aggressive and there are times where you’ll have to watch a 30 second ad before you can watch one minute of content, which is … Read More

Can you Wear Apple Watch on Ankle?

Oct 29, 2023 - 1 Comment
Can you wear Apple Watch on the ankle

Many Apple Watch users are curious if it’s possible to wear the Apple Watch on their ankle. Whether this is because they can’t wear the Apple Watch on their wrist, or because they’re wearing gloves or hand coverings, or participating in other activities where wearing a watch is not possible or allowed, wearing an Apple … Read More

How to change media sync options on iPhone & iPad to make more storage available

Oct 28, 2023 - 1 Comment
unable to update iOS or iPads because you must change media sync options to make more storage available error message

If you’re trying to use a Mac to update iOS on iPhone or iPadOS on iPad, you may see an error message that says something along the lines of “Updating to iOS 17.1 requires at least 975.2 MB of free space on your iPad. Please change your media sync options to make more storage available.” … Read More

The Best Free Clipboard History & Clipboard Manager for Mac is Maccy

Oct 24, 2023 - 11 Comments

Maccy is a really good free clipboard manager for the Mac, the type of software that is so good that you’re grateful it is available for free, in the classic spirit of computing and open source software. It’s fast, unobtrusive, allows for text and images, with a great set of features, and a simple to … Read More

10 Essential Tips for New Mac Users

Oct 23, 2023 - Leave a Comment
Essential tips for new Mac users

New Mac users who are transitioning to the Apple ecosystem from the world of Windows PC’s may experience a mix of curiosity, excitement, and even confusion, as they get to know their new operating system. Fortunately, the Mac is not only exceptionally powerful, it’s also very easy to use, and quite intuitive. For new Mac … Read More

How to Install Safari Technology Preview on Mac

Oct 22, 2023 - Leave a Comment
Safari Technology Preview running in macOS

Safari Technology Preview is an optional web browser for Mac that is separate from the regular Safari browser, with the Tech Preview offering an early look at upcoming web technologies and features before they become included in the primary Safari browser. In this way, Safari Tech Preview is kind of like Google’s Chrome Canary, and … Read More

How to Download a Mac App from Github?

Oct 20, 2023 - 4 Comments
How to download full compiled Mac apps from Github

A ton of open source software is available on Github, and many Mac applications are often available to download for free through the Github service as well. And if you read websites like this one and many others in the Apple and tech world, you’ll often find links to neat software projects on Github. One … Read More

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