How to Make Video Calls with Skype on iPhone & iPad

Apr 17, 2020 - 2 Comments

How to Make Video Calls with Skype on iPhone

Skype offers an easy way to make video calls from iPhone and iPad, and the recipient on the other end of the video chat can be on virtually any other platform, including iOS, Android, Windows, and Mac. If you’re interested in learning how to make video calls with Skype from iPhone or iPad, read on.

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By Hamlin Rozario - iPad, iPhone, Tips & Tricks - 2 Comments

How to Share Screen with Zoom on iPhone & iPad

Apr 16, 2020 - 8 Comments

How to Share Screen with Zoom

If you’re using Zoom meetings for teleconferencing, you may find it useful to know how you can share the screen of iPhone or iPad from Zoom. This can be helpful for many reasons, whether to go over work together, show a presentation, walk through something, or any number of other purposes for screen sharing.

Zoom makes sharing the screen of iPhone and iPad quite easy, but like anything else you need to know how it works. This article will show you how you can screen share using Zoom in iOS and iPadOS.
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By Hamlin Rozario - iPad, iPhone, Tips & Tricks - 8 Comments

Beta 2 of iOS 13.4.5 & iPadOS 13.4.5 Released for Testing

Apr 15, 2020 - 2 Comments

Public beta of iOS 13 and iPadOS 13

Apple has released new beta builds of iOS and iPadOS 13.4.5 for users who are enrolled in the beta testing programs for iPhone and iPad.

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By Paul Horowitz - News - 2 Comments

How to Make Group Video Calls with Google Duo on iPhone & iPad

Apr 15, 2020 - Leave a Comment

How to Make Group Video Calls with Google Duo on iPhone

Google Duo is a simple video calling solution that lets you connect with your friends and family in direct video calls and with group video calling, and you can make or join those calls directly from an iPhone and iPad within a matter of seconds – even if the other people are using Android.

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How to Make Video Calls with Google Duo on iPhone & iPad

Apr 15, 2020 - 1 Comment

How to Make Video Calls with Google Duo on iPhone & iPad

Trying to reach out to your friends, family members and colleagues during this quarantine period? Thanks to popular video calling services like Google Duo, you’re just seconds away from reaching out to them, and you can video chat with anyone even if they using an Android rather than an iPhone or iPad. You can even make group video calls with Duo too, but for our purposes here we’re going to focus on direct one on one video chatting.

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By Hamlin Rozario - iPad, iPhone, Tips & Tricks - 1 Comment

How to Share Screen with Hangouts on iPhone & iPad

Apr 14, 2020 - 1 Comment

How to Share Screen with Hangouts

If you’re one of the millions of people using Google Hangouts for group video calls you may appreciate learning how to share your screen with other participants in the video chat.

Google Hangouts video conferencing and screen sharing is useful for meetings, presentations, work, school, personal calls, and so much more, whether you’re in an office, at home, working from home during quarantine, or any other situation. But Google Hangouts Screen Sharing functionality is limited to the business-oriented Hangouts Meet, which comes bundled with G Suite.

If you make use of Google’s G Suite for your business or educational needs, you might be interested in taking advantage of the screen sharing feature that Hangouts Meet has to offer. Here we’ll be cover how you can share your screen with Hangouts Meet on both the iPhone and iPad.

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By Hamlin Rozario - iPad, iPhone, Tips & Tricks - 1 Comment

How to Download Full MacOS Installers from Command Line

Apr 13, 2020 - 62 Comments

How to download full macOS Installer applications from Terminal

Mac users can download full complete MacOS installers directly from the command line. This is an incredibly useful feature particularly if you want to build USB boot drive installers, you manage multiple Macs, or you simply want to have full access to a complete installer application of MacOS for any other purpose.

With this particular trick, you can download complete “Install MacOS” application packages directly from the Terminal application, and it works to get full installers of macOS Monterey, macOS Big Sur, Catalina, Mojave, and High Sierra too.

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How to Bookmark a Web Page in Safari on iPhone & iPad

Apr 12, 2020 - 4 Comments

How to Bookmark a Web Page in Safari on iPhone & iPad

Want to bookmark a web page or website in Safari on iPhone or iPad? Bookmarks make revisiting websites and webpages super easy, and are an excellent way to keep track of things on the web.

It’s fairly easy to add and manage bookmarks in Safari, but if you had no clue how to use it, you’ve come to the right place. This article will demonstrate how you can bookmark a web page in Safari on your iPhone or iPad.

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By Hamlin Rozario - iPad, iPhone, Tips & Tricks - 4 Comments

How to Pair Playstation 4 Controller with macOS Ventura / Monterey / Big Sur / Catalina

Apr 11, 2020 - 2 Comments

Use a PS4 Controller with a Mac

Mac users can pair and use Playstation 4 controllers with their Mac, which makes for an excellent gaming experience.

The ability to pair PS4 controllers to the Mac has been around a while, but with MacOS Catalina 10.15 onward, it’s easier than before (you can pair Xbox One controllers to Mac now too just as easily).

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By Oliver Haslam - Games, Mac OS, Tips & Tricks - 2 Comments

How to Make Group Video Calls with Google Hangouts on iPhone & iPad

Apr 10, 2020 - 5 Comments

How to Make Group Video Calls with Google Hangouts

Google Hangouts offers a free and easy way to make group video calls, and you can make and join those calls directly from iPhone and iPad.

Google Hangouts has always been useful, but for some people it may be more relevant and useful than ever right now during quarantine periods, and it offers another option to video conferencing with Zoom Meeting from iPhone and iPad, group FaceTime video chat with iPhone and iPad and Group FaceTime on Mac, Skype, and others too. Thanks to Google Hangouts, you can make group video calls to handle personal, business, and other work-related meetings right from the comfort of your workplace or home, as long as you’re connected to the internet.

In this article, we’ll cover how you can make group video calls with Google Hangouts on both the iPhone and iPad.

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By Hamlin Rozario - iPad, iPhone, Tips & Tricks - 5 Comments

How to Setup, Host, & Join a Zoom Meeting on iPhone & iPad

Apr 9, 2020 - 12 Comments

How to Set Up Zoom Meeting on iPhone and iPad

Zoom is a video conferencing solution that allows people to easily setup, host, and join video chats for remote meetings, work, or even just social events.

If you are an iPhone or iPad user and also one of the countless people who are currently working from home during this COVID-19 lockdown period, you’ll be pleased to know that Zoom makes video conferencing quite easy. And even without the COVID-19 outbreak, using Zoom for group video conferences and work-related meetings is easy and convenient.

There are several video conferencing applications that are available today, but Zoom is primarily targeting businesses and institutions that are out there. With many schools and colleges being shut down due to the global pandemic, several educational institutions have even begun online classes with the help of Zoom, as it’s capable of hosting up to 100 participants for 40 minutes, even on the free plan.

Are you trying to host or join a Zoom meeting from your iOS or ipadOS device? Here we’ll be discussing how you can set up, host and join a Zoom meeting on both the iPhone and iPad.

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By Hamlin Rozario - iPad, iPhone, Tips & Tricks - 12 Comments

MacOS Catalina 10.15.4 Supplemental Update Released with Bug Fixes

Apr 8, 2020 - 12 Comments

MacOS Catalina supplemental update

Apple has released MacOS Catalina 10.15.4 Supplemental Update for Mac users running macOS Catalina.

The new supplemental update includes a few bug fixes, including resolving a problem with FaceTime calls that was also patched in the iOS 13.4.1 and iPadOS 13.4.1 updates. The full release notes accompanying the MacOS Catalina 10.15.4 Supplemental Update are available further below.

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By Paul Horowitz - Mac OS, News - 12 Comments

How to Enable AirPods Pro Noise Cancellation with Just One Earbud

Apr 8, 2020 - 1 Comment

AirPods Pro noise cancellation and transparency features

Did you know you can use the AirPods Pro Active Noise Cancellation feature even if you only have one of the earbuds in? Indeed you can use ANC on a single earbud. This is a great feature if you use a single AirPods Pro earbud for phone calls, conversations, podcasts, or listening to audio. If you didn’t know about this feature, that’s not too surprising because it’s not the most obvious AirPods Pro feature to reveal itself.

In this article, we’ll show you how to enable Active Noise Cancellation on a single earbud of AirPods Pro.

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By Oliver Haslam - iPad, iPhone, Tips & Tricks - 1 Comment

iOS 13.4.1 & iPadOS 13.4.1 Update with FaceTime Bug Fix Released

Apr 7, 2020 - 6 Comments

iOS 13.4.1 update

Apple has released iOS 13.4.1 and iPadOS 13.4.1 for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch users.

The new version of iOS and iPadOS includes bug fixes, with the most notable being a resolution to a FaceTime issue where device running the newest iOS and iPadOS versions were unable to communicate with Apple devices running older system software. Thus if you have been experiencing issues with FaceTime calls lately, you may benefit from updating to the latest iOS 13.4.1 or ipadOS 13.4.1 release.

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By Paul Horowitz - iPad, iPhone, News - 6 Comments

How to Adjust Night Mode Camera Exposure Length on iPhone 11 Pro & iPhone 11

Apr 7, 2020 - Leave a Comment

Night Mode example photo of a car dashboard at night

The Night Mode camera is a great feature of iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, and iPhone 11 Pro Max, and as you may know already the feature turns itself on automatically when dim lighting is detected. But did you know you can manually adjust the time length of the exposure for Night Mode camera on iPhone?

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

How to Rotate Photos on Mac with Photos App

Apr 6, 2020 - 10 Comments

How to rotate photos on Mac in Photos app

If you use the Photos app on Mac to manage your photo libraries, you may occasionally need to rotate a picture or two in your collection. Perhaps you snapped a photo in horizontal landscape mode but you meant it to be vertical in portrait, or maybe you just want to rotate a picture for some other reason.

Rotating photos on the Mac is very easy within the Mac Photos app, as you’ll quickly see in this tutorial.

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By Paul Horowitz - Mac OS, Tips & Tricks - 10 Comments

How to Play Apple Arcade Games on a Mac

Apr 5, 2020 - 2 Comments

Apple Arcade Sonic Racing

The arrival of Apple Arcade last year was something that we’d been looking forward to – and was rumored – for a long time. Now it’s here, and you can play games on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. And it’s the last one we’re going to cover today, so if you’ve been wondering how to play some Apple Arcade games on the Mac you’re in the right place.

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By Oliver Haslam - Games, Mac OS, Tips & Tricks - 2 Comments

How to Use Xbox One Controller with Mac in macOS Big Sur & Catalina

Apr 4, 2020 - 10 Comments

Xbox One controller support in Mac OS X with Xbox One Controller Enabler

Ever wanted to use an Xbox One controller with your Mac for gaming? You can do that easier than ever before with the latest versions of MacOS, because with modern versions of macOS like Big Sur and Catalina (and newer), Apple has added native support for Xbox One game controllers.

A paired Xbox One controller can be used to play any game that supports controllers on the Mac, whether that’s popular titles like Fortnite, or Apple Arcade games, or many others. The Microsoft Xbox One S and Xbox One X controllers are great controllers to play with and very popular with gamers in general, and now it’s easier than ever to get them up and running on your Mac as you’ll see in this tutorial.

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By Oliver Haslam - Games, Mac OS, Tips & Tricks - 10 Comments

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