Tips & Tricks

If you don’t use Apple Intelligence and Siri AI capabilities on your Mac, and you’re comfortable with Terminal-based third party removal tools, you might be interested in disabling and removing Apple Intelligence, Siri AI, Siri, and all related tools from your Mac with a newly popular utility. A third party open source tool called RemoveMacAI … Read More

The all new “Write with Siri” feature in MacOS 27 Golden Gate for Mac, iOS 27 for iPhone, and iPadOS 27 for iPad, allows you to easily compose, rewrite, and proofread text by using Apple Intelligence, and it works basically anywhere that you can type. Write with Siri works by analyzing your prompt or query … Read More

If you’re a Mac user who has updated to MacOS 27 Golden Gate, you might have quickly noticed the new “Write with Siri” Siri AI floating button tool that appears alongside basically every text entry point, whether you’re in an email app, Notes, Pages, Safari, or just about anywhere else. This is part of the … Read More

If you’re the type of Mac user who likes to keep track of your system performance and system resource usage and management, an intriguing and full-featured app called Mac Performance Monitor might be for you. As you might have guessed from the name, Mac Performance Monitor lets you see a dashboard, history, and breakdown of … Read More

Some Mac users who have recently installed MacOS 27 Golden Gate have noticed an unusually laggy and buggy experience with Mission Control, full screen apps, and Stage Manager. Impacted users complain of a slow lag, delay, or stutter before entering Mission Control and/or Stage Manager, or swiping between spaces or full screen apps, flickering thumbnails, … Read More

If you installed iOS 27 at some point recently, and your iPhone has been running hotter than usual, perhaps even with what perceived degradation in performance, and reduction in battery life, you’re certainly not alone. While this can be a frustrating experience, it’s often associated with installing the update itself, and the good news is … Read More

One of the more useful new small features available to iPad users in iPadOS 27 is the ability to always show the menu bar when using iPad. With this new setting toggled on, the menu bar will always be visible at the top of the screen on the iPad, much like the MacOS default. You … Read More

While MacOS 27 Golden Gate is overall a great system software release, that’s not to say it’s perfect and without user complaints. One issue that is cropping up for some MacOS 27 users, myself included, is poor battery performance. Battery life issues and complaints are fairly common to crop up during the initial release period … Read More

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… Adobe Photoshop used to be a lightweight image editor and available without an annoying subscription fee, but not anymore. With Adobe Photoshop now a comically bloated sluggish and expensive mess, one rebel spaceship carrying an enterprising developer took it upon himself to challenge the ADOBE … Read More

World of Warcraft: Forever is currently in beta, and while you can pre-purchase the game to get early beta access to the game right now before it launches to everyone in November, there are also workarounds to install and run World of Warcraft Forever right now on a Mac or Windows PC, without any purchase … Read More

Looking for a fun unique way to stylize your Mac experience, and also to make it easier to differentiate which windows are which? Window Sweaters might be for you. Window Sweater is a whimsical little app that wraps your MacOS windows in virtual sweater knitting, with each app window getting its own distinct color and … Read More

It’s official; MacOS Golden Gate 27 is here, and if you’re already running the latest version of MacOS, or you’re just curious about some of the new features and changes, you’ll appreciate knowing what’s new and improved. While may of the biggest changes to MacOS 27 are under the hood and are noticeable with faster … Read More

iOS 27 is here for iPhone and iPad, and while most of the efforts of the OS 27 releases were put towards performance enhancements and improving the core operating system itself, there are also some new and interesting features introduced with iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 too. From the new Siri AI, to further customizing … Read More

If you recently installed iOS 27 on iPhone, iPadOS 27 on iPad, or MacOS 27 Golden Gate, you might be wondering where the widely hyped new Siri AI set of features are on your device; a dedicated Siri app, a much smarter Siri AI with chatbot like experience, custom voices, and more. These are all … Read More

MacOS 27 Golden Gate has been released by Apple and is now available to download and update for the general public. MacOS 27 went through several months of beta testing, and the finalized version can be installed on any compatible Mac. MacOS 27 Golden Gate includes performance improvements for MacOS itself including improved system responsiveness … Read More

iOS 27 is now available for iPhone, along with iPadOS 27 for iPad. This is the final version of iOS 27, after a several months long beta development and testing process. All eligible iPhone models and iPad devices can download and install the iOS 27 or ipadOS 27 upgrade, respectively, at their leisure. iOS 27 … Read More

MacOS 27 Golden Gate has an emphasis on improving performance, with significant enhancements to Spotlight search, mail search, and more. There are also some really nice visual refinements to the Liquid Glass interface and system icons, and there’s even a slider for adjusting the intensity of Liquid Glass. Plus, macOS 27 Golden Gate brings with … Read More

iOS 27 for iPhone and iPadOS 27 for iPad will be released on Monday, September 14. That’s pretty soon, and while you don’t have to update right away on the release day, you still might be interested in preparing your devices for installing the next major system software update for iOS and iPadOS. Since iOS … Read More