Tips and tricks for all things Apple! Whether you want to learn tips for a Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, or much more, you will find many tricks, tips, tutorials, and excellent walkthroughs for Apple devices and software here.
Adventurous iPhone users may be interested in joining the iOS 17 public beta to get an early look and feel of what the upcoming iOS 17 system software version is like on their own iPhone. By enrolling in the public beta program and installing the public beta of iOS 17, you’ll get immediate access to … Read More
Apple has started issuing Rapid Security Response Updates for iOS and iPadOS. These small software updates for iPhone and iPad are intended to address known security risks and exploits, and without having to issue a full software update version for iOS, iPadOS, or MacOS. By default, rapid security response updates will install automatically onto your … Read More
iTerm2 is a popular Terminal application alternative for the Mac, and one fun way to customize the appearance of your terminal windows in iTerm2 is to set the terminal window to be transparent. Here’s how you can get a transparent terminal appearance in iTerm2 on the Mac.
Did you know you can use Apple Pay with ATMs to withdraw cash? Apple Pay and Apple Wallet work seamlessly with thousands of ATMs around the world, thanks to the large network of cardless ATMs available with major banks. While many people associate Apple Pay with the Apple Card and making contactless payments while shopping, … Read More
If you’re a Mac user, you may be interested in bypassing CAPTCHAs that you encounter as you browse the web, automatically. Nobody likes CAPTCHAs, which are the goofy tests that we are subjected to on the web that make you “prove that you are a human” and are aimed to filter out bots and spammers. … Read More
If you use the Chrome browser to develop for the web, you may be interested in knowing that you can clear the browsers DNS cache directly in Chrome. This is a separate process that is limited to Chrome, and it does not clear the DNS cache of the host computer or device. If you’re a … Read More
This weekend, why not make the most of your iPhone by exploring some of the best features and embracing the possibilities of new iPhone experiences? Whether you’re mastering the iPhone camera, exploring new podcasts, or finding new apps to try, check out the tips below so that you can enhance your weekend with some iPhone … Read More
Users may come across a situation where they would like to find all files in a directory, folder, or subfolder structure, that match a particular string but with variations to the file names, a situation perfect for finding files based on wildcard matches. For example, maybe you’d like to locate all files on a file … Read More
Mac users may occasionally come across a situation where a process is locking a port, preventing another app or process from using that port. If you come across such a situation, for example maybe you’re trying to use React.js and find out that something is already running on port 3000, you can easily track down … Read More
Sometimes when you’re using Excel, you might have data inputted across multiple columns, and you may wish to combine columns. One of the major perks of using spreadsheet software like Excel is that you can easily combine columns with simple formulas and functions, merging two (or more) columns together. The simplest way to combine multiple … Read More
If you have a MacBook Pro or MacBook Air running the latest versions of MacOS system software, like Sonoma or Ventura, you may be interested in knowing how you can show the battery percentage in your Mac menu bar. Displaying the battery percentage indicator MacOS in Sonoma and Ventura has moved to a new settings … Read More
CAPTCHA’s are those annoying “prove you are a human” tests that are common on the web, making you do things like select all the motorcycles, crosswalks, or cars in a series of images, or type out a series of fuzzy characters to match, before you can proceed to login or access a particular website. The … Read More
Homebrew is a fantastic package manager for the command line on Mac, but something that is perhaps less fantastic for some individuals is that Homebrew defaults to enabling ‘analytics’, which means your Mac will transmit data from your Mac to Homebrew about Homebrew usage. No thanks! The Homebrew analytics include everything from user agent, Google … Read More
Pixelmator is arguably the best photo and image editing app for Mac, other than the much more expensive Photoshop anyway. If you bought Pixelmator Classic some time ago, and you haven’t yet went for the upgrade to Pixelmator Pro (or perhaps you don’t need the new features), then you may be interested in downloading and … Read More
Want to get ahead of the curve and run watchOS 10 beta on your Apple Watch? WatchOS 10 features freshly redesigned apps, a new smart stacks feature, new watch faces, and other refinements to the Apple Watch operating system, and some advanced users may be interested in trying out the newest watchOS on their wrists. … Read More
You can easily monitor and view the temperature of an Apple Silicon equipped Mac with the help of a free app called Hot. Hot displays the Mac’s CPU temperature in the menu bar, allowing you to keep an eye on thermal conditions on the Mac. And while we’re focusing on the Apple Silicon Macs here, … Read More
If you gave into the temptation of installing iOS 17 beta onto your iPhone and now regret doing so because of incompatibility issues, bugs, or performance complaints, you may be interested in downgrading iOS 17 beta back to stable iOS 16 release. We’ll show you how you can downgrade and remove iOS 17 beta from … Read More
Many Mac users are interested in downloading the full installer for MacOS Sonoma beta, but when they go through the typical process of installing the MacOS Sonoma beta and downloading the update from System Settings, they’re given only a smaller stub installer that can not be used for things like making a USB boot install … Read More
