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How to Mirror iPad on Mac, like iPhone Mirroring

Feb 25, 2026 - Leave a Comment
iPad Mirroring on the Mac

Ever wanted to use iPad Mirroring on your Mac, like the iPhone Mirroring app? iPhone Mirroring is one of the most handy features introduced to modern MacOS versions, allowing you to seamlessly mirror and use your iPhone screen directly from your Mac with ease. It’s so useful that many Mac users have wondered if iPhone … Read More

How to Use Full Screen Split View on macOS Tahoe

Feb 24, 2026 - 3 Comments
Split View on MacOS Tahoe in Full Screen

Split View is a useful feature in MacOS that lets you split the screen between two different apps or app windows, in complete full screen mode. Split View is appreciated by many users who find it to boost productivity and focus, particularly if they already enjoy and appreciate full screen app mode on the Mac. … Read More

Tinkle Highlights Your Active Window on MacOS

Feb 18, 2026 - 4 Comments
Tinkle temporarily draws a visual effect on active windows to make them obvious to see on the Mac

One of the major complaints of the new Liquid Glass design on macOS Tahoe is that it’s difficult to differentiate windows, and that there is so little contrast between the active window and a background window that it can be challenging for many users to tell them apart quickly. Tinkle attempts to help you immediately … Read More

Restart Spotlight on Mac with an Unorthodox Easy Method

Feb 17, 2026 - 2 Comments
An interesting way to restart Spotlight on Mac

Restarting and relaunching Spotlight on the Mac have been helpful troubleshooting tricks since the debut of the search engine to the MacOS platform. Often if you restart Spotlight, rebuild the index, or kill specific Spotlight processes, you can typically resolve many common issues with the MacOS search engine. Given the utility of relaunching the Spotlight … Read More

Reduce Transparency Works Again in macOS Tahoe 26.3

Feb 13, 2026 - 13 Comments
Reduce Transparency works in Tahoe 26.3 again

The freshly released macOS Tahoe 26.3 update has resolved an accessibility issue where the “Reduce Transparency” feature was not working properly on the Mac. Before macOS Tahoe 26.3, toggling the switch on would leave considerable transparent effects, including in sidebars, headers, titlebars, search boxes, and more, leading to situations where text would overlap and interface … Read More

MacOS Sequoia 15.7.4 & MacOS Sonoma 14.8.4 Security Updates Released

Feb 12, 2026 - Leave a Comment
MacOS Sequoia software update

Apple has released MacOS Sequoia 15.7.4 and MacOS Sonoma 14.8.4 as system software updates for the Sonoma and Sequoia operating systems, focusing on security patches for Mac users who are not running macOS Tahoe. Separately, macOS Tahoe 26.3, iOS 26.4, ipadOS 26.3, watchOS 26.3, tvOS 26.3, along with iOS 18 updates, are also available for … Read More

macOS Tahoe 26.3 Update Released

Feb 11, 2026 - 5 Comments
macOS Tahoe 26.3

Apple has released macOS Tahoe 26.3 for all Mac users to install as a software update. macOS Tahoe 26.3 focuses on bug fixes and security enhancements, and are recommended to install for all Tahoe users. Mac users who are running Sequoia or Sonoma will find smaller security patch oriented updates available for those system software … Read More

iPhone Disconnected from Image Capture While Importing? Try This Fix

Jan 29, 2026 - 2 Comments
Camera disconnected while importing error with Image Capture on Mac when transferring photos from iPhone

Image Capture has long been a preferred method of getting photos from an iPhone to a computer or external drive, but something I have run into fairly often over the last several years is that Image Capture occasionally randomly disconnects the iPhone during an image transfer. This obviously ends the image transfer in a failure, … Read More

How to Change the Folder Icon Color on MacOS Tahoe

Jan 28, 2026 - 2 Comments

With macOS Tahoe 26 and newer, you can change and customize the color of your folders as seen within the Finder. This is a fun way to customize the look and feel of using your Mac, and yet it’s simple to implement. There are a variety of interesting ways to customize the Liquid Glass appearance … Read More

btop for MacOS is an Excellent Terminal System Resource Monitor

Jan 22, 2026 - 2 Comments
btop for Mac in Terminal

If you’re a command line enthusiast and you’re the type of Mac user who likes to keep an eye on your system resources and resource utilization, you’ll likely enjoy checking out the btop command. btop offers real-time visualization of CPU usage, memory use, processes, network activity, and disk activity. You can even use btop as … Read More

Logitech Mouse or Keyboards Break on Mac After Expired Certificate, But it’s an Easy Fix

Jan 8, 2026 - 2 Comments
Logitech mouse

If you’re a Mac user who has recently discovered their Logitech mouse or keyboard is not working suddenly, or not working properly with missing customizations and functionality, it might be because of an issue with an expired security certificate with Logitech devices on the Mac. Specifically, if you use Logi Options+ or G HUB with … Read More

PowerFox Brings a Modern Web Browser to Older Macs with Snow Leopard

Jan 6, 2026 - 1 Comment
PowerFox with SSL/TLS support and more for old Macs with Snow Leopard that want to use modern web

Got an old Mac or two laying around that you want to use with the modern World Wide Web? If that Mac is running Snow Leopard, you might just be even more life out of those old Macs, thanks to PowerFox.

Tidy Up Messages by Auto-Deleting Verification Codes on iPhone, Mac, iPad

Dec 26, 2025 - 9 Comments
Automatically delete Verification Codes from Messages and Mail to prevent clutter

Many services use two-factor authentication nowadays, where your phone or email address gets sent a code that you must enter as part of the login process into an online service. These codes are one time use only and therefore don’t make a lot of sense to keep around forever, but manually going through and deleting … Read More

MacOS Sequoia 15.7.3 & MacOS Sonoma 14.8.3 Security Updates Released

Dec 15, 2025 - Leave a Comment
MacOS Sequoia 15.7.3 update

If you’re a Mac user who is continuing to run the MacOS Sequoia or macOS Sonoma operating systems, you’ll find updates available as MacOS Sequoia 15.7.3 and macOS Sonoma 14.8.3. These are security update focused and do not introduce any changes or new features. Safari 26.2 is also available as an update to these MacOS … Read More

MacOS Tahoe 26.2 Update Released for Mac

Dec 12, 2025 - 4 Comments
MacOS Tahoe 26.2 update

Apple has released macOS Tahoe 26.2 to the general public, becoming available for all Mac users to download as a software update to macOS Tahoe. macOS Tahoe 26.2 includes a few new features, including the ability for adding alarms to Reminders, and a FaceTime ring lighting feature, and resolves a few bugs as well as … Read More

Bring Falling Snow & Christmas Lights to Mac with Snowy

Dec 10, 2025 - 2 Comments
Snowy app options for Mac

If you ever wished your Mac could feel a bit more seasonal and festive for the holidays and Christmas, you might just appreciate a fun app called Snowy. Snowy brings falling snow, twinkling Christmas lights, and some holiday ambiance, directly to your Mac desktop. You can have dangling twinkling Christmas lights hanging from your menu … Read More

Make Your Active Foreground Window Obvious on MacOS Tahoe with Alan

Dec 5, 2025 - 4 Comments
Alan makes it obvious which window is active on the Mac

One of the complaints about the new Liquid Glass interface on the Mac is that with such a reduction in contrast, it is increasingly challenging to quickly determine which of your app windows is active in the foreground. Developer Tyler Hall was annoyed enough by this with Tahoe that he created a simple app to … Read More

Watch the Fun Apple Holiday 2025 Commercial: A Critter Carol

Dec 2, 2025 - Leave a Comment
Holiday 2025 Apple ad

Apple has launched their official 2025 holiday advertisement for the season. This years commercial comes in at 2 minutes and features two friends taking a snowy hike, one of whom drops their iPhone into the snow, which is soon picked up by a forest creature, who proceeds to gather even more forest creatures to use … Read More

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