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How to Hide Online Status on WhatsApp

Apr 10, 2022 - 9 Comments
Hide WhatsApp Online Status

WhatsApp defaults to showing everyone your online status, displaying if you are currently online, and the date and time of when you were last online using the WhatsApp app. But what if you’d rather be a bit more private, and hide your WhatsApp online status? You can do that, and it’s easy to configure on … Read More

How to View Your Instagram Feed in Chronological Order

Apr 9, 2022 - 2 Comments
Change the Instagram feed to chronological order

Instagram now offers an option to view your feed in chronological order, meaning that you will see posts from people you follow that are the most recent, rather than based on the Instagram algorithm. To use the chronological feed on Instagram, you will want to update the Instagram app to the latest version. The rest … Read More

How to Make WhatsApp Messages Disappear by Default

Apr 8, 2022 - Leave a Comment
Whatsapp iOS Icon

Want an added privacy boost for all of your WhatsApp messages, texts, conversation threads, and chats? You can set WhatsApp so that all messages will disappearing automatically, by default. Whether you want all messages to disappear after 24 hours, 7 days, 90 days, or not at all, you have that option. It doesn’t matter if … Read More

How to Take Screenshots Without Pressing a Button on iPhone

Apr 7, 2022 - 14 Comments
How to Take Screenshots Without Pressing A Button on iPhone

Did you know that you can take screenshots on the iPhone without having to press any physical buttons on the device? If you’re one of those users who take screenshots on their iPhones regularly, you may find it useful to know there’s an alternative way to capture screenshots on the device. Whether you take screenshots … Read More

How to Change or Remove Font Smoothing on MacOS Monterey & Big Sur

Apr 6, 2022 - 7 Comments
How to Change or Remove Font Smoothing on Mac

Are you noticing blurry text on your Mac’s display while navigating through the menu and across apps? More specifically, has this been an issue ever since you updated to macOS Monterey or Big Sur, and on a non-retina display? If so, chances are, font smoothing is enabled by default, and for some users they feel … Read More

How to Save a Backup of All Gmail Emails to Your Computer

Apr 5, 2022 - 10 Comments
How to Save a Backup of All Gmail Emails

Do you use Gmail as your preferred email service? If so, do you want to save a copy of all the emails you have received and sent over Gmail up until this date, locally to your computer, device, or hard drive? Fortunately, it’s pretty easy to save a backup of all your emails from Gmail, … Read More

Capture Full Size Webpage Scrolling Screenshots in Chrome

Apr 4, 2022 - Leave a Comment
Capture full page screenshot in Chrome

The Google Chrome browser offers two ways to capture full size webpage screenshots. This can be necessary or useful for many web workers, whether they’re developers, designers, editors, managers, writers, analysts, or just about any other possible web-based gig. The approaches we’ll cover to capture full size webpage screen shots with Chrome require the full … Read More

Get Slack-style Emoji Shortcuts on Mac with Rocket

Apr 4, 2022 - Leave a Comment
Rocket quick Emoji tool for Mac

If you’re accustomed to using Slack and you find the :emoji search and shortcut tool from Slack to be convenient, you’ll really appreciate Rocket for Mac. Rocket is a fun Mac app that brings the Slack implementation of Emoji insertion to macOS, where simply typing colon, emoji name, return, prints out the emoji. For example, … Read More

What Does the Red Dot Mean on Apple Watch?

Apr 3, 2022 - Leave a Comment
Red Dot on Apple Watch screen

Got a red dot on the screen of your Apple Watch? Wondering what the red dot is at the top of the Apple Watch screen? You’re certainly not alone, as many Apple Watch users are wondering what the red dot means, and perhaps how they can get rid of it on their device.

How to Unpair Apple Watch

Apr 2, 2022 - Leave a Comment
How to Unpair Apple Watch

Want to unpair your Apple Watch from your iPhone for whatever reason? Maybe you want to pair it do a different iPhone, or unpair it for troubleshooting purposes? If you are facing any sort of connectivity issues with your Apple Watch, perhaps it’s getting randomly disconnected from your paired iPhone even when it’s nearby, for … Read More

Zoom In & Zoom Out with Tap Gestures on Mac

Mar 31, 2022 - 1 Comment
Zoom in and out with a tap gesture on Mac

Want to quickly zoom into a webpage or document? If you use a Mac with a trackpad or Magic Mouse, you can use a super easy tap gesture trick to zoom in and zoom out of web pages and documents. This is super useful if you want to get a closer look at something, perhaps … Read More

Enable Low Power Mode on Mac via Command Line

Mar 30, 2022 - 2 Comments
Enable Low Power Mode on Mac Laptop from the command line

If you are a Mac laptop user and you spend a lot of time at the command line, you may appreciate knowing that you can enable Low Power Mode on a Mac laptop through a terminal command. Enabling Low Power Mode through the command line on a MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, and MacBook is the … Read More

How to Add Widgets to iPad Home Screen

Mar 29, 2022 - 1 Comment
How to add widgets to the iPad home screen

iPad users can spice up their Home Screen by adding widgets, which can display useful information and other data from apps and sources right on the Home Screen of your device. The latest versions of iPadOS allow users to add widgets to anywhere on the iPad Home Screen too, offering an excellent way to customize … Read More

7 Ways to Make a New Note on iPhone & iPad

Mar 28, 2022 - 4 Comments
New Note from the home screen of iPhone or iPad

The Notes app on iPhone and iPad is super useful, allowing you to jot down information quickly for all sorts of purposes. There are various ways to create a new note in the Notes app on iOS and iPadOS, some of them are quite fast and might be new to you, so if you’re an … Read More

How to Install nano Text Editor on Mac Again

Mar 27, 2022 - 10 Comments
Get nano on macOS again instead of pico

If you have attempted to use nano at the command line on MacOS recently, you may have noticed that the pico text editor is launched instead, via a symlink for /usr/bin/nano to pico. This is because the latest versions of MacOS remove the nano text editor from the command line for whatever reason, and instead … Read More

How to Turn On Apple Watch

Mar 26, 2022 - 3 Comments
Turn On Apple Watch

Got an Apple Watch that is turned off and you want it to turn on, or perhaps you found an Apple Watch that is off and you want to turn it on to help return it to its owner? Turning on the Apple Watch is super easy but if you’ve new to the device you … Read More

Mac Doesn’t Have Admin Account in macOS Monterey or Big Sur? Here’s a Fix

Mar 25, 2022 - 20 Comments
Change user account to admin account in macOS Monterey

All Mac computers need an administrator account to be able to function properly and perform certain tasks, ranging from installing certain software, to changing some system preferences. A variety of situations can arise causing a Mac to lose an administrator account, often if a user attempted to add a new admin account or new user … Read More

How to Blur Background During FaceTime Calls on iPhone, iPad, & Mac

Mar 24, 2022 - Leave a Comment
How to Blur Background During FaceTime Calls

Ever wanted to blur your background while on a FaceTime call? Maybe it’s a busy room or a messy kitchen behind you. Fortunately, you can use the same Portrait mode you use for your selfies, right on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

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