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Fix AirDrop Not Working on iPhone / iPad with Easy Troubleshooting Tips

Mar 2, 2016 - 13 Comments
AirDrop in iOS - how to fix it if it's not showing up, or if AirDrop is not working in iOS

Is AirDrop not working as expected? If you’re having problems with AirDrop not working on iPhone or iPad, you can follow the troubleshooting steps outlined in this article to help resolve the issue. AirDrop is the easy to use direct file sharing protocol built into iOS, iPadOS, and Mac OS X which allows for sending … Read More

Convert Video to GIF on Mac with GifBrewery

Mar 1, 2016 - 5 Comments
Convert a video to animated GIF on Mac

If you have ever wanted to convert a movie into an animated GIF, you likely have found a variety of lower quality apps or web based solutions. You can skip those though, because Mac users have an excellent option for creating animated GIFs from a video called GifBrewery. Gif Brewery is a full featured GIF … Read More

The Mac Hosts File: How to Modify /etc/hosts in Mac OS X with TextEdit

Feb 29, 2016 - 15 Comments
How to Edit the hosts file in TextEdit in Mac OS X

The Mac hosts file is a system level file located at /etc/hosts which maps IP addresses to host names for Mac OS X networking. Many users edit and modify the hosts file so that they can point a domain to a different IP address, whether for the purpose of local development, blocking sites, or simply … Read More

How to Make a Custom System Alert Sound for Mac OS X

Feb 28, 2016 - 18 Comments
Use the custom made alert sound in Mac OS X

The Mac makes an alert sound when certain dialog boxes, errors, and other user interactions are encountered in OS X. Most Mac users likely know that you can change the alert sound to one of your choice by going to the Sound preference panel in OS X, but did you know you can easily make … Read More

Change Apple Watch Wrist & Button Orientation from Left to Right

Feb 27, 2016 - 8 Comments
Change Apple Watch wrist orientation in device settings

If you want to change the wrist in which you wear Apple Watch, you can do so without having a cumbersome button experience by choosing to switch the devices orientation. This also insures the devices screen will show properly, otherwise if you simply move the Watch from one wrist to the other, the display would … Read More

iPhone is Disabled? How to Fix With or Without Connecting to iTunes

Feb 26, 2016 - 365 Comments
iPhone is disabled error message and how to fix it

Have you ever picked up your iPhone to discover the message “iPhone is disabled” and to “try again in 1 minute” or to try again 5, 15, 60 minutes? In the worst scenarios, the message says “iPhone is disabled. Connect to iTunes”, and the device is unusable until then. So, what is going on here, … Read More

How to Disable (or Enable) 3D Touch on iPhone

Feb 25, 2016 - 4 Comments
iPhone 6S with 3d Touch

New iPhone models include an interesting feature called 3D Touch, which allows you to press the screen at varying degrees of pressure to get various app shortcuts, as well as various ‘pop’ and ‘peak’ features. While 3D Touch is a useful feature for many and one of the primary selling points of the iPhone, some … Read More

How to Change Text Size of Finder Fonts in Mac OS X

Feb 25, 2016 - 22 Comments
How to change the text font size in Mac OS X Finder

Many Mac users may like to adjust the font size of file names, folders, and other text found in the Finder of OS X. This is particularly helpful if you find the default text size of Finder fonts to be small and challenging to read when navigating in the Mac file system, where increasing the … Read More

Remove Unwanted Email Suggestions from Mail on iPhone & iPad

Feb 24, 2016 - 21 Comments
Removing an email address from the recent suggestions list in iOS Mail

The iOS Mail app will automatically suggest recently used email addresses in the recipient feel when compiling a new email message or forwarding an email. While this is often accurate and helpful, sometimes an unwanted email address can pop-up in the automatic suggestion list, as can email addresses of people who are no longer in … Read More

Get a Calendar from Command Line for Any Date, Month, Year

Feb 24, 2016 - 9 Comments
Get a calendar from the command line of Mac OS X

Though just about everyone has our phones glued to us with a dedicated calendar app, for users who spend considerable time in the command line it can be more efficient to stay put rather than stray to another app or pick up a different device to flip around in the calendar and find a given … Read More

Preview Web Page Links in Safari for Mac with a Multitouch Tap Trick

Feb 23, 2016 - 27 Comments
Safari icon

Have you ever been reading a webpage where another link is referenced, but you don’t want to click and follow the URL because you’re in the middle of an article? Of course you have, right? That’s practically a regular occurrence on the web. Fortunately for Mac users, web life is a bit easier, because rather … Read More

How to Convert Live Photos to Animated GIFs on iPhone with a Free App

Feb 22, 2016 - 15 Comments

Live Photos are a great new feature for the iPhone camera, and while you can easily share them with other iPhone and iPad users or to a Mac, they come across as little movies unless the user has Live Photo compatible iPhone. Mysteriously missing is the ability to convert and save Live Photos as an … Read More

How to Loop YouTube Videos to Play Repeatedly

Feb 21, 2016 - 7 Comments
How to loop a YouTube video

Have you ever wanted to play a YouTube video repeatedly in a loop? Maybe it’s a song, a TV show, a kids video, music video, something funny, whatever it is, you’d like to play it repeatedly on a loop. WhileYouTube is generally designed to play a video once and then either stop playing or move … Read More

Is iMessage Down? Is iCloud Down? How to Check Apple Services Status

Feb 19, 2016 - 7 Comments
Check Apple services online or offline

Many Apple device owners depend heavily on iCloud, iMessage, FaceTime, Apple ID, Siri, the App Stores, and the other myriad of Apple online services for their Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod, and Apple TV to work as intended, whether it’s backing up to iCloud or sending messages to friends and families, using iTunes, or logging into … Read More

Get Weather Reports from the Command Line with finger

Feb 18, 2016 - 21 Comments
Get weather forecast from the command line with finger

There’s no shortage of methods to retrieve a weather report, the web is full of weather resources, everyones iPhone, Apple Watch, and smartphone has a weather app, Siri can tell you the weather, and you can even get the current weather in the menu bar of OS X or from Spotlight on the Mac too. … Read More

How to Save a Mail Attachment to iBooks in iOS

Feb 17, 2016 - 3 Comments
iBooks in iOS

You can save many email attachment file types directly from Mail app to iBooks in iOS, this allows for easy offline viewing on an iPhone or iPad, and it offers the benefits of using iBooks for reading and reviewing documents as well. By saving an email attachment to iBooks, you actually convert and create a … Read More

Access Handoff in iOS Quickly from the Multitasking Screen

Feb 16, 2016 - 2 Comments
Handoff is part of Continuity in iOS and OS X

Handoff is the great feature which, much as it sounds, allows iOS and Mac users to ‘hand off’ activity from an app on one device to another, whether that’s an email composition, web browsing session, chat, or work in Pages. Assuming you have Handoff enabled on multiple Apple devices using the same Apple ID, you … Read More

How to Record iPhone Screen with Mac and QuickTime

Feb 15, 2016 - 32 Comments

If you would like to capture and record the screen of an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, you can easily do so thanks to QuickTime, the video app that comes with every Mac. This offers a simple solution for recording the screen of an iOS device for demos, presentations, tutorials, and much more, and it’s … Read More

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