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Instantly Resize Finder Column View to Fit File Names in Mac OS X

Oct 10, 2013 - 8 Comments
Instantly resize Finder column view to fit file and folder names

Column View is one of the more useful file browsing view settings in the Mac OS X Finder, but it has a usability flaw that’s initially visible to most users; file names and folders often don’t fit, thus they wind up truncated and become unreadable. Rather than dragging around every single column to accommodate the … Read More

How to Move an iTunes Library to an External Drive or USB Flash Stick

Oct 9, 2013 - 9 Comments
iTunes logo

Have you ever wondered if you can keep your entire iTunes Library on an external drive, freeing up disk space and providing for a portable music and media library? The answer is yes, you can, and it’s actually pretty easy to offload an entire iTunes collection to another drive, whether you’re using a Mac or … Read More

How to Fix the Keyboard Typing Lag with iOS 7 on Older Devices

Oct 9, 2013 - 2 Comments
keyboard typing lag in iOS 7

Some users have noticed that certain older iPhone and iPad models feel slower after updating to iOS 7. We’ve offered a variety of tips to speed things up, but one persistent issue that has we’ve been contacted about regards the mysterious keyboard lag and typing delay that seems to only apply to older devices, where … Read More

3 Awesome Built-In Utilities Make Your iPhone a Multi-Tool

Oct 8, 2013 - Leave a Comment
iPhone does everything

Sure your iPhone can make phone calls, check your email, browse the web, play games, and a million and one other things, but thanks to iOS 7 your iPhone can now double as a multi-tool digital swiss army knife too (minus the blade, of course). A fair amount of users will already be aware of … Read More

Add Time Zone Support to Calendar for iOS

Oct 7, 2013 - 1 Comment
Calendar icon in iOS 7

Those who use Calendar for iOS and who also happen to travel between time zones may have noticed the events show based upon the iPhone or iPads current location rather than a defined time zone, this can cause some scheduled times to be off if you’re not expecting that behavior. The problem with that is … Read More

Find a Mac Serial Number the Easy Way: Have it Spoken to You

Oct 6, 2013 - 1 Comment
Get a Mac serial number

Having a Macs serial number is important for when you’re ordering AppleCare extended warranties, checking on the status of your current warranty or repairs, or even when just contacting tech support whether it’s Apple or another third party support solution through the phone. Because you’ll likely need a Macs serial number at some point in … Read More

iTunes Radio Missing from Music App? Here’s How To Get It Back in iOS

Oct 6, 2013 - 34 Comments
iTunes Radio missing, here is how to fix that

iTunes Radio is a really great streaming music service from Apple accessible with iTunes on the desktop and iOS for the mobile world. But a peculiar bug is impacting some iOS devices where the Radio button disappears entirely at random from the iOS Music app for many iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch users. This obviously … Read More

How to Switch the Voice of Siri to a Guy or Girl on iPhone & iPad

Oct 5, 2013 - Leave a Comment
Siri Logo

As you may have noticed by now, Siri’s voice often gets an overhaul in the new iOS versions, adjusted just slightly from the now famous female voice used in countless Apple commercials to a variation that is just slightly different, but a bit more refined. The new voice sounds great, but if for some reason … Read More

5 Simple Usability Improvements for iOS

Oct 4, 2013 - 1 Comment
Increase the font size

A few simple settings adjustments can go a long way to improving the overall usability of modern iOS versions, including iOS 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, and anything since the iOS 7 redesign, whether running on an iPhone, iPod touch, or the larger screened iPad models. We’ll show you how to quickly boost the text … Read More

Jump to the End or Start of a Document with a Simple Mac Keystroke

Oct 3, 2013 - 3 Comments
Navigate to the Start or End of documents with Mac keystrokes

A couple of easy to remember keyboard shortcuts will dramatically boost your productivity when navigating around documents and webpages throughout OS X, giving you the ability to instantly jump to the beginning or end of a scrollable document. These are universal on all Macs and should work regardless of what keyboard you’re using, so whether … Read More

Search for Text on a Web Page in Safari with iOS 8 and iOS 7

Oct 3, 2013 - 15 Comments
Safari icon

Finding words and searching for text directly on webpages in Safari post iOS 8 and iOS 7 has changed slightly, and though there seems to be significant confusion about how to use the new find words and phrases feature, rest assured the feature has not been removed from Safari, the find feature is just accessed … Read More

How to Enable NTFS Write Support in Mac OS X

Oct 2, 2013 - 66 Comments
NTFS write support in Mac OS X

Mac OS X has always been able to read NTFS drives, but tucked away in Mac OS X is a hidden option to enable write support to drives formatted as NTFS (NTFS stands for New Technology File System and is a proprietary file system format for Microsoft Windows). Enabling NTFS write support on the Mac … Read More

Listen to iTunes Radio from Outside the USA with a New Apple ID

Oct 1, 2013 - 5 Comments
iTunes Radio

iTunes Radio is an excellent streaming music service from Apple. We’ve covered a few different tweaks and tips for the service recently, but at the moment the Radio feature is limited to USA-based users. But for international readers, rather than waiting for the rollout to arrive at your location, you can use a simple trick … Read More

View Time Stamps for Messages on iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch

Oct 1, 2013 - 1 Comment
View time stamps for messages

The Messages app for iOS now gives everyone the ability to see time stamps for any sent message or received message directly in the app. This lets you know exact times of correspondence when any message was sent or received, providing the precise hour and minute for each individual element of dialog. This is a … Read More

Dismiss Notifications Instantly in iOS with a Swipe

Sep 30, 2013 - 3 Comments
Dismiss Notifications instantly with a swipe up

iOS Notifications can be both extremely useful and persistently obnoxious, depending on what the alerts are for and when they come across your screen. For the times when they’re on the obnoxious end of the spectrum, in your way of doing something on your iPhone or iPad, you’ll be happy to discover that now in … Read More

Convert an Image into Black & White with Preview in Mac OS X

Sep 30, 2013 - 8 Comments
Black and white image conversion in Mac OS X with Preview app

Want to convert a color picture to a beautiful black and white version? Believe it or not, you don’t need any fancy apps like Adobe Photoshop, Pixelmator, or even iPhoto to convert images into black and white, all you need is Preview, which is the preinstalled basic image viewing Mac app that comes with Mac … Read More

How to Quit Apps in iOS 8 & iOS 7

Sep 28, 2013 - 1 Comment
How to Quit Apps in iOS 9

Quitting out of running apps in modern versions of iOS is a bit different than it was before, but once you get the hang of using the new multitasking screen, you’ll find the change is for the better. Not only can you use this to close out of a single app, but with a simple … Read More

List All Apps Downloaded from the Mac App Store via Command Line

Sep 28, 2013 - Leave a Comment
List Mac App Store apps from the Terminal

A handy terminal command will show a list of all apps installed on a Mac that have come exclusively from the Mac App Store. This can be helpful for a variety of reasons, like when building a list of apps you may want to replace from outside the official App Store channels if you’re migrating … Read More

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