Want to re-enable the startup boot chime sound effect on a new Mac? You can do that with a command line string entered into the Macs Terminal. As you may know, new Macs default to not making a startup boot chime sound effect, this is in contrast to every prior Mac model which included a boot sound effect.

With a little effort, you can enable the boot startup sound effect on modern Macs however, including newer model MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, MacBook, iMac, Mac mini, and Mac Pro.

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Do you want to move the emails located in the Junk folder back to the Inbox within the Mail app on iPhone or iPad? If so, you’ll be pleased to know that it’s fairly simple to unmark emails as junk / spam and restore them back to their original location, or even their rightful location. By doing this, you’re telling the Mail app that the email is not junk.

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Some advanced Mac users may have noticed that certain shell scripts with cron, cron jobs, and crontab are either not working at all, or not able to function properly in the newest versions of MacOS, notably Mojave 10.14, Catalina 10.15, macOS Big Sur 11, and later. Depending on the situation, this may be accompanied by a permissions error, an operation not permitted error, or a script or cronjob may simply fail silently in the background. While there are numerous reasons a cronjob may fail, strict security measures in the latest MacOS releases may also be at fault and cause problems for some users.

This article will walk through resolving cron permissions issues with the latest versions of MacOS, including macOS Big Sur, Catalina, and Mojave.

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Viewing a web pages source code in Safari, and other web browsers, is a fairly routine activity for many people who work with the web for a living or even as a hobby. Unlike some other browsers, to view page source in Safari you must first enable a developer toolset for the browser to be able to access the view web page source feature.

This tutorial will demonstrate how to view a web pages source in Safari on Mac OS. This applies to all versions of Safari and MacOS.

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If you’re using the App Store on iPhone or iPad you may occasionally run into an issue where you see an error message upon launching the App Store that says “Cannot Connect to App Store”, rather than the typical App Store options you’d expect to see. This can be frustrating as an inability to connect to the App Store can prevent app downloads, app updates, and all other App Store activities on iPad and iPhone.

This guide will walk through troubleshooting methods to resolve and fix a “Cannot Connect to App Store” iPhone and iPad error message.

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Netflix automatically plays the next show in a series thanks to a feature called autoplay, which, much as it sounds, automatically starts playing the next episode in a series when the prior show episode ends. If you’d like to disable Netflix autoplaying episodes, you can make a change in Netflix account settings to do so.

This walkthrough will demonstrate how to turn off autoplaying episodes and shows on Netflix, it works with any device including iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Android, Xbox, Switch, Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Netflix on the web on Mac or Windows PC, or anywhere else you use the same Netflix account from.

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If you have connected an Xbox controller or PS4 controller to an iPhone or iPad, you may be wondering if it’s possible to see what the battery life is of those connected game controllers.

It turns out that much the same way you can check the battery life of Apple Pencil or AirPods, you can also quickly check the battery percentage remaining of connected Bluetooth gaming controllers too in iOS and iPadOS.

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TeamViewer is a popular software that offers a free and convenient way to share your iOS device’s screen to someone who’s willing to offer you technical assistance from a remote location.

People primarily use TeamViewer on Mac & Windows PCs as a remote control software to access desktops in a different location and provide technical support. Although you can’t remotely control an iPhone or iPad using TeamViewer on a computer, the screen sharing feature should be good enough for any sort of guidance in most cases. This wouldn’t be possible without the built-in screen recording feature that Apple introduced alongside the release of iOS 11.

If you’re trying to use TeamViewer on your iOS device for remote assistance, you’ve come to the right place. In this article, we’ll walk you through the necessary steps for sharing your iPhone or iPad screen with TeamViewer.

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Instagram, the most popular social media platform for sharing photos offers a free and convenient way to make video calls and group video chats. You can make or join these calls directly from an iPhone (or iPad too if you’re running the iPhone app on iPad).

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More advanced Mac users may wish to have the user ~/Library folder always visible in their Home directory for various reasons.

With MacOS Catalina, you can have the user Library folder always shown and visible by toggling a settings option in the Finder.

This article will show you how to do that, with the end result being that the active users ~/Library folder is always visible in their Home folder.

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WhatsApp offers a free and easy way to make and join video calls directly from iPhone. Whether you’re looking for yet another video chat solution, an alternative to FaceTime, or you just have large network on WhatsApp, it’s another option for making video calls. So if you miss seeing your friends, family, and colleagues for any reason, perhaps while you’re staying at home in self-isolation due to the global pandemic, you can try making a video call with WhatsApp.
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Do you accidentally touch the Touch Bar on MacBook Pro and trigger an action without meaning to? Then a free little third party app called Bar None may be what you’re looking for.

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Skype is one of the most popular video calling services that lets you stay connected with friends, family, and coworkers regardless of where you or they are, using just your iPhone or iPad (or other devices too).

Beyond just video chat and group video chat, Skype also lets you share your devices screen. That’s what we’re going to focus on here, so read on to learn how to share the screen of iPhone or iPad over a Skype call.

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Wondering about enabling and using iCloud Photos on iPhone and iPad? If you have a lot of photos and own multiple Apple devices like iPhones, iPads, and Macs, enabling iCloud Photos could be one of the more convenient features available to you. iCloud Photos enables the seamless and automatic syncing of all your photos and videos across all of your devices, including iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more, and it works flawlessly (most of the time anyway, but always backup your photos and important stuff separately from the cloud).

Enabling iCloud Photos on an iPhone or iPad is a simple affair, so long as you know where to look.

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Wondering how fast your current internet connection speed is? It’s super easy to find out how fast your internet connection is, all you need is a web browser to find how fast or slow your internet service is.

We’ll be covering how to check internet connection speed using a Mac with any web browser, but technically this connection speed testing process is the same on any other computer or device with a web browser too, including any iPhone, iPad, Windows PC, Linux, Android, or other hardware.

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As you may already know, Skype makes video calling easy, but did you know that you can also make group video calls with Skype from iPhone and iPad too?

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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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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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