15 Keynote Keyboard Shortcuts for iPad

Jun 4, 2024 - Leave a Comment

Keynote for iPad keyboard shortcuts

The Keynote presentation app for iPad has a variety of handy keyboard shortcuts available to it that are only accessible when the iPad is connected to a physical keyboard. If you’re a regular Keynote for iPad user, and you have either a Magic Keyboard, Smart Keyboard, keyboard case, or other external keyboard connected to the iPad, you’ll be sure to appreciate learning these helpful keystrokes for using iPad with the Keynote app.

From the basics like creating a new presentation and new slides, to duplicating slides, finding information, starting slideshows, showing transitions, navigating within the presentation, and much more, read along and you’ll learn a variety of handy keyboard shortcuts for the Keynote app on iPad.

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By Paul Horowitz - iPad, Tips & Tricks - Leave a Comment

How to Install Java on Mac with M3, M2, M1 Apple Silicon Chip

Jun 3, 2024 - 1 Comment

How to install Java on an Apple Silicon Mac

Some Mac users may need to install Java on their Apple Silicon equipped Mac – whether it’s an M1, M2, M3, or other M-series ARM chip – allowing them to run Java-based applications and software on their computers. Whether it’s to run specific enterprise software, use particular educational tools and compsci courses, run Java web apps, or to access and use Java development tools and the JDK (Java Development Kit), there are numerous reasons why installing Java in MacOS can be necessary, though it’s typically only advanced users and developers who require Java.

Modern Macs and modern versions of MacOS do not include Java by default and haven’t for quite some time, so if you need Java on an Apple Silicon Mac, you will have to install it manually. We’re going to demonstrate how you can install Java on an M-series Mac with an M3, M2, M1, or whatever Apple Silicon Mac you’re using.

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By Paul Horowitz - Mac OS, Tips & Tricks - 1 Comment

Get the New M4 iPad Pro & M2 iPad Air Wallpapers

Jun 2, 2024 - 1 Comment

Default wallpapers for M4 iPad Pro and M2 iPad Air

The powerful new M4 iPad Pro and M2 iPad Air series come equipped from the Apple factory with some pretty nice looking wallpapers, but that doesn’t mean you have to buy a new iPad just to enjoy the appearance on your current devices.

The M2 iPad Air wallpapers feature bright shiny colorful abstractions based upon the color the devices that vaguely spell out ‘AIR’, while the M4 iPad Pro wallpapers are dark black yet still feature colorful abstracts that spell out “PRO” in a similarly discrete fashion. Whatever they say and whatever your device, they look pretty neat.

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By Paul Horowitz - Customize - 1 Comment

sysmond on Mac Using High CPU? Here’s the Likely Reason & How to Fix It

Jun 1, 2024 - 1 Comment

Understanding why sysmond using high CPU

sysmond, which as you may have surmised from the process name, is short for System Monitor Daemon, is part of Activity Monitor. Thus, if you use Activity Monitor to keep a watch on your Mac system resources, processes, CPU usage, Energy use, Disk, Network, and critical to our discussion here – Memory usage, you may find that sysmond is using a lot of system resources in and of itself.

Let’s dig into sysmond a bit to learn more about what it is, and why it sometimes uses a very large amount of CPU, and how you can correct that.

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By Paul Horowitz - Mac OS, Troubleshooting - 1 Comment

Install & Run iTunes, Aperture, or iPhoto in MacOS Sonoma with Retroactive

May 31, 2024 - 12 Comments

Install iTunes, Aperture, or iPhotos on a modern MacOS Sonoma Mac

Do you miss iTunes for Mac? Do you really miss Aperture for Mac? Do you have fond memories of iPhoto in MacOS? What if you could run any of these three now defunct apps in modern MacOS Sonoma? With the help of an app called Retroactive, you can do exactly that, installing iTunes, Aperture, and iPhoto, onto modern Macs running MacOS Sonoma (or Ventura, Monterey, Big Sur, and Catalina).

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By Jamie Cuevas - Mac OS, Tips & Tricks - 12 Comments

17 Numbers Keyboard Shortcuts for iPad

May 30, 2024 - Leave a Comment

Numbers for iPad keyboard shortcuts

The Numbers spreadsheet application for iPad includes quite a few useful keyboard shortcuts for when the iPad is connected to an external keyboard.

If you use Numbers for iPad regularly, you’ll almost certainly benefit from knowing these keystroke combinations to perform various actions within the Numbers app. So grab your iPad keyboard and launch the Numbers app, and get learning!

We’ve got a broad range of keyboard shortcuts for Numbers on iPad to learn and master, and you’ll be glad to know many of these.

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How to Find a Misplaced Apple Watch with iPhone’s Ping My Watch

May 29, 2024 - 1 Comment

How to find a missing Apple Watch with iPhone Ping My Watch feature

If you’re an Apple Watch user, you should know about a convenient feature for iPhone that helps you to easily find a misplaced Apple Watch. Much like how you can ping an iPhone with Apple Watch to find an iPhone, you can now go the other direction too, by pinging your Apple Watch from your iPhone, which will cause a sound to play from the Apple Watch.

Pinging a lost Apple Watch from iPhone is super easy, but curiously enough, the feature is not available by default on iPhone even after it has been setup and paired with an Apple Watch. Instead, you have to manually enable this feature first, and we’ll show you how to do that, and how to use this handy ping feature to help find a misplaced Apple Watch by using your iPhone.

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By Jamie Cuevas - Apple Watch, iPhone, Tips & Tricks - 1 Comment

PSA: Updating to MacOS Sonoma or iOS 17 May Enable iCloud Keychain

May 28, 2024 - 4 Comments

iCloud Keychain may turn itself on after software updates

Mac users, iPhone users, and iPad users, should all be aware that updating to macOS Sonoma 14, iOS 17, or iPadOS 17, may silently enable iCloud Keychain on their devices. Essentially this means that by updating to the latest iOS, iPadOS, or MacOS, you may be unintentionally enabling the feature and thereby uploading your saved keychain and login information to Apple’s iCloud servers. If you like and use this feature, obviously that’s not an issue, but if you don’t use iCloud Keychain and don’t want to use it, having it enable itself after updating system software may be considered problematic, or a nuissance.

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By Jamie Cuevas - News, Security - 4 Comments

How to Install VMWare Tools in Windows on VMWare Fusion for Mac

May 27, 2024 - 3 Comments

Installing VMWare Tools offers additional features and capabilities in VMWare including easy sharing options

VMWare Tools is an optional toolkit to install into a Windows virtual machine in VMWare that allows you to have easier sharing of files between the host Mac operating system and the Windows virtual machine, as well as some other useful features like time syncing between host and client, being able to pass data back and forth between the host and client, additional customization options, and more.

VMWare Tools isn’t necessary to simply run a VM, and it’s not needed for everyone, but advanced users, or those who want to have easy options to share files between a Windows VM and the host MacOS might particularly appreciate these features, and want them installed in VMWare Fusion on their VM.

We’ll show you two ways to install VMWare Tools into a Windows VM in VMWare; using the easy installer, and by installing it manually by ISO file.

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By Paul Horowitz - Mac OS, Tips & Tricks - 3 Comments

How to Change the Voice of ChatGPT on iPhone, Mac, iPad

May 26, 2024 - 2 Comments

ChatGPT icon and logo

ChatGPT for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, all include a very impressive Voice Chat feature, that lets you have voice chats and full on conversations with the advanced AI Large Language Model. One of the fun ways to customize Voice Chat with ChatGPT is to change the voice to something you prefer, and there are multiple options available to choose from.

We’ll show you how you can easily change the voice of that used in conversation mode of ChatGPT on iPhone, iPad, or Mac.

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Deals: M1 iPad Air for $399, M3 MacBook Air 15″ 16GB/512GB for $1499, & More

May 26, 2024 - Leave a Comment

Amazon deals

Amazon is back with offering some great deals on the M1 iPad Air M1 model, taking $200 off the $599 MSRP, bringing the final price to just $399. To round it out, there’s also nice discounts on the compatible Magic Keyboard and Apple Pencil, so you can get a full iPad Air setup at a great deal price.

Plus there’s some great deals on upgraded M3 MacBook Air models, AirTags, and AirPods, so check those out too. Stock changes quickly at Amazon with varying colors, so keep that in mind as you’re browsing, and you can always check back again later to see if a particular color or option is available.

iPad Air M1 5th generation for $399 (Save $200, 33% Off)

iPad Air M1

Amazon is offering a huge discount on the M1 iPad Air, bringing the 5th gen model down to just $399 from the $599 MSRP. iPad Air 5th gen features a speedy and power efficient M1 chip, 10.9″ Liquid Retina Display, 64GB storage, 12MP front and 12MP back cameras, Touch ID, all day battery life, and full compatibility with Magic Keyboard and Apple Pencil 2. The discount is available in Silverlight, and stock on other colors is shifting quickly.

The freshly released M2 iPad Air is also available at a small discount, but the M1 iPad Air is much cheaper and most users likely won’t notice any performance difference between the M1 and M2 models, so if you’d rather save a couple hundred bucks and put those savings towards accessories, that makes a lot of sense.

iPad Magic Keyboard for $249 (From $299)

iPad Magic Keyboard

You can save 16% on the iPad Magic Keyboard 11″ model, which works great with the iPad Air 5th gen. The iPad Magic Keyboard is arguably the best accessory you can get for an iPad, as it completely transforms the tablet into a laptop-like experience, with a fantastic trackpad and keyboard (with backlighting). Plus with the pass-through charging capacity for USB-C, you free up the port on the M1 iPad Air. You can get the deal price in either Black or White colors.

Apple Pencil 2 for $79 (Discounted 39%!)

Apple Pencil 2nd gen

The Apple Pencil 2 is available at a whopper discount and works great with the iPad Air 5th gen. Apple Pencil is perfect for taking notes, doodling, drawing, sketching, or just interacting with your iPad with a stylus. It charges magnetically by snapping to the side of your iPad Air.

You can build an entire M1 iPad Air bundle with Magic Keyboard and Apple Pencil for just $728!

15″ M3 MacBook Air 16GB / 512GB for $200 Off

MacBook Air 15 inch starlight

The M3 MacBook Air 15″ upgraded model with 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD can be had at a $200 discount on Amazon, while the M3 Air 13″ is available at a $150 discount:

Misc Apple Deals

You can also great some great deals on AirTags and AirPods from Amazon right now:

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How to Confirm Before Closing Windows with Multiple Tabs in Chrome, Edge, Brave

May 25, 2024 - 2 Comments

Ask before closing all tabs in a browser window in Chrome and Edge

If you use a lot of tabs when browsing the web with Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Brave, or any other Chromium based browser, you might want to enable an optional feature that asks to confirm whether or not you wish to close any browser window with multiple tabs open. This can help to prevent you from losing active browsing sessions and tabs that you might not want to close, and help to prevent accidental browser tab loss.

This trick works the same in any Chromium based browser, including Chrome, Edge, Brave, and others, so whatever you use as your default web browser on Mac (or PC) you can make this change.

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By Jamie Cuevas - Mac OS, Tips & Tricks - 2 Comments

How to Search the Web (Minus AI Junk & Clutter) with Google on Safari for Mac

May 24, 2024 - 4 Comments

UDM14 gives you a frontend to Google Web search minus any of the clutter and AI junk

If you’re a Safari user, as many of us are, you might be interested in actually searching the web with Google and then seeing a list of actual web link results, without seeing any of the new AI junk, video and image recommendations, knowledge panels, related searches, suggested searches, or the other junky clutter that dominates basically every modern Google search. Indeed, once upon a time, a default search on Google actually returned web-only results! You can have that good-old web search experience again with Safari, whether you’re on a Mac, iPhone, or iPad, and it’s pretty simple as you’ll see in a moment.

We recently covered a very popular trick for performing actual web searches with Google minus any of their AI regurgitation and other junk content, and while it works great for Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, Epic, and Chromium-based browser users, if you’re a Safari user, you’re left out of that particular trick, because there isn’t currently a way in Safari to modify how searches are performed.

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By Jamie Cuevas - Mac OS, Tips & Tricks - 4 Comments

How to Use ChatGPT for Mac Right Now, Bypassing the Waitlist

May 23, 2024 - 7 Comments

How to get ChatGPT for Mac right now and use it skipping the waitlist

OpenAI recently announced that an official ChatGPT app for Mac was coming with ChatGPT 4o support, complete with some pretty cool features like a keyboard shortcut to open a ChatGPT query from anywhere (kind of like Spotlight, but for ChatGPT), screenshot capabilities, ability to initiate discussions based on photos (for example, provide a picture of a plant and let ChatGPT determine what it is and how to care for it), and a very advanced voice conversation feature that blows Siri, Alexa, and every other voice assistant completely away. But part of the announcement from OpenAI was that ChatGPT for Mac was “coming soon”, and so it’s not available to download for all users, and even if you do manage to download the ChatGPT app for Mac (from a friend, social media link, or found on ChatGPT forums), you’ll be presented with a “coming soon – you do not have access to the desktop app yet” error message.

However, thanks to a super goofy little trick, you can immediately gain access to ChatGPT for Mac, and use it right now! Yes this means you can download ChatGPT for Mac right now, and skip the waitlist to use it right now too.

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By Jamie Cuevas - Mac OS, Tips & Tricks - 7 Comments

Apple Deals: $200 Off M3 MacBook Air 15″ 16GB RAM / 512GB SSD

May 22, 2024 - Leave a Comment

M3 MacBook Air 15 inch

Amazon is back with some more great deals on the MacBook Air series, taking $200 off the 15″ model and $150 off the 13″ model, both with the upgraded 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD configurations.

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How to Search Google Without AI Rubbish & Clutter

May 22, 2024 - 14 Comments

How to search Google Web results by default and hide all the AI content and other clutter

Remember when you used to use Google search and it would only return a list of links for web results, letting you easily find what you’re looking for? Google was once the best way to search the web, but as almost all Google users have noticed, the web search engine has become less of an engine to search web pages and links and turned into more of a clutter-filled mess with AI regurgitation, so-called “knowledge panels”, ‘related questions and queries’ instead of matching results, unwanted video and photo results when you want web results, and all sorts of other rubbish clutter that degrades the search experience.

While it is frustrating to see what was once the best search engine in the world turn into a cluttered mess with crummy results and rewritten AI content without compensating the original sources and often with deep bias and dubious accuracy, the good news is that you can use a search modifier for Google to make it actually search the web again, and give you actual web results.

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By Jamie Cuevas - Tips & Tricks - 14 Comments

iOS 17.5.1 & iPadOS 17.5.1 Update Released to Fix Reappearing Deleted Photos Bug

May 21, 2024 - Leave a Comment

iOS 17.5.1 and iPadOS 17.5.1 are bug fix updates to address an issue where deleted photos would reappear

Apple has released a small bug fix update for iPhone and iPad versioned as iOS 17.5.1 and iPadOS 17.5.1. The update specifically aims to fix a very strange bug where deleted photos would randomly reappear on some users devices. Sometimes the photos that reappeared on user devices were deleted many years prior, raising serious questions about just how those photos were stored and deleted on iPhone and iPad.

According to the release notes accompanying iOS 17.5.1, the deleted photos were reappearing due to “database corruption” but it’s unclear what exactly that means, and if that’s only related to iOS 17.5 and iPadOS 17.5 or something broader with iCloud or with the on-device Photos library. Regardless, it’s probably a good idea to update to iOS 17.5.1 if you are concerned about ancient deleted photos reappearing on your device.

Separately, tvOS 17.5.1 is also available for Apple TV.

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Play Apple Music in Retro Mac OS X Fashion with QuickTune

May 21, 2024 - Leave a Comment

QuickTune retro Apple Music player

Apple Music may be a modern offering from Apple, but a super fun project from developer Mario Guzman offers a very nostalgic interface to Apple Music, giving it a QuickTime lookalike appearance from 2005. Aptly named QuickTune, you’ll find QuickTune has a super simple and fun retro brushed metal interface to interact with Apple Music on your Mac.

If you’ve been a Mac user for long enough, you likely have fond memories of the brief but beloved brushed metal interface of Mac OS X Tiger (10.4), and perhaps you even once used QuickTime Player to play music and videos sometime around 2005. With QuickTune, you can relive that experience, but with the conveniences and modern playlists you’ve already curated with Apple Music.

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