If youâre a Windows user, whether on a PC, in a dual boot environment with Boot Camp on an Intel Mac, or youâre running Windows 11 in a virtual machine on an Apple Silicon Mac, you may have an interest in installing Windows Subsystem for Linux, or WSL.
Windows Subsystem for Linux puts a full Ubuntu Linux shell on a Windows PC that is accessible from the command prompt or PowerShell. If you have a Mac background, you can think of Windows WSL as kind of like what Terminal and HomeBrew is for MacOS, since MacOS has a BSD shell available at any time through the command line.
If youâre at the command line and perhaps interacting with Homebrew, Git, or similar, you may run into an error message that says something like the following âwarning: unable to access /Users/Name/.config/git/attributesâ : Permission deniedâ.
This error message sounds more alarming than it is in most cases, but regardless, you likely want to fix the error and remedy the permissions issue so that you no longer receive the âunable to access ~/.config/git/attributesâ error message.
If you have an Apple Watch, or you just bought an Apple Watch, you may occasionally run into a situation where the Apple Watch displays a squiggly line charging cable on the screen, sometimes with a little lightning bolt icon as well. Some people have even referred to this screen as the âgreen snake screenâ or âred snake screenâ because it also kind of looks like the old snake video game. If you see this screen, youâve probably noticed by now that the Apple Watch will not turn on at all, instead it just shows that screen image.
If you see the squiggly line screen on your Apple Watch display, this is actually pretty easy to fix, but youâll need to have some patience.
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You may have noticed while on a video call or teleconference that your video is mirrored, or flipped, by default on the Mac. Mirrored video means the image on screen is what you see when looking in a mirror, not your regular orientation from an observers perspective, thus the name. This is the case with all MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and iMac computers, each with a built-in front facing FaceTime camera.
You might be wondering if you can change the default mirror video camera effect, and the answer to that is yes, but itâs not universal.
Some Mac users have discovered a process named âNewsToday2â running on their Mac, typically found after theyâve noticed a slowdown on their machine, or if theyâre browsing through active processes running in MacOS.
Weâre going to dive into the NewsToday2 process in MacOS, discuss what it is, and show you how to stop it from running and disable NewsToday2 on the Mac.
Creating a resume is one of those tasks that can be stressful, but it does not need to be if youâre in the Apple ecosystem. Thatâs because your iPhone, iPad, and Mac, all have a readily accessible series of resume templates that you can access.
Whether itâs updating a resume into a new format, or creating an entirely new resume, weâll show you how you can easily make a resume on Mac, iPhone, or iPad, by using the bundled Pages app.
Apple has announced their annual developer conference, WWDC, will take place from June 10 to June 14 of this year.
The majority of WWDC 2024 will be online, however there will be an in-person event and keynote speech on June 10, at Appleâs Cupertino California headquarters.
Apple typically unveils new versions of upcoming system software at the Worldwide Developer Conference, and this year we can assume that iOS 18, MacOS 15, iPadOS 15, watchOS 11, tvOS 18, and visionOS 2 will debut.
Sometimes Apple announces new products or hardware at WWDC as well, though itâs unclear if that will happen this year.
Apple is also expected to focus prominently on AI, or Artificial Intelligence, at WWDC 2024, where itâs rumored that AI helper components will be built into operating systems and individual apps.
Separately, there are reports from Bloomberg that Apple has been in talks with Google to use the Gemini AI product to power various AI features on iPhone. Gemini is a large language model from Google that launched recently as a ChatGPT competitor, but not without some controversyregarding certain subjects, accuracy, and image generations. ChatGPT has also been shown to include many of the same troubles and biases. A recent study commissioned by the US government determined that AI could potentially pose an âextinction-level threat to the human species.â Despite all of those reasonable concerns, AI tools like Gemini and ChatGPT are incredibly useful for completing day-to-day tasks, and itâs likely that Apple will use these tools in helpful ways.
Apple has released macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 as an update for Mac users running the Sonoma operating system.
The software update includes bug fixes and security enhancements, and appears to resolve the USB hub and external monitor issues that some Mac users were experiencing with macOS Sonoma 14.4 update.
Separately, macOS Ventura 13.6.6 is also available for Mac users running the Ventura operating system. These updates are concurrent with the already released iOS 17.4.1 and iPadOS 17.4.1, which were released the week prior.
The Apple Watch may be small and on your wrist, but believe it or not the Apple Watch also has a keyboard. Yes, even with the small screen, you can use a full size QWERTY keyboard on Apple Watch to type things out, whether itâs a quick response to a message, or an email.
In addition to the keyboard feature, there are other ways to type on Apple Watch as well, including Dictation, and by using iPhone keyboard. Letâs check out these great features to empower your Apple Watch usage.
Mac users have the option of using either the Light theme or Dark mode theme of MacOS, or they can have the system theme change with the time of day automatically on a schedule. But what if you prefer one theme over the other for some apps, but not others? What if you want some apps to be Dark mode themed, while others you want to be Light mode themed?
While this is a somewhat niche scenario, you can mix and match your MacOS apps into both Dark mode and Light mode simultaneously, with the help of a free third party tool called Gray.
The Personal Hotspot feature on iPhone turns your iPhone cellular connection into a wi-fi hotspot that other nearby devices and computers can use to access the internet. Itâs one of those really great features available for iPhone that allows you to work from just about anywhere that you have a cellular connection, and can also be used as a backup internet connection if your primary service goes down. But have you ever wondered how secure an iPhone Personal Hotspot connection is? Is it more secure to use Personal Hotspot instead of the free coffee shop wi-fi?
With the reasonable concerns there are around internet security, itâs not unreasonable to ask how secure a Personal Hotspot connection is thatâs created by the iPhone (or cellular iPad, for that matter).
Timers have arrived on the Mac with the addition of the Clock app coming to modern versions of MacOS. This is exciting if youâve long wanted to use a timer on your Mac, whether to set a timer for a project, for your own pomodoro or work, cooking something, how long a break should take, or anything else you might want to use a timer for. Before you could use Siri to set one, but now itâs a dedicated feature within the Clock application, bundled with MacOS.
Apple has issued iOS 17.4.1 update for iPhone, and iPadOS 17.4.1 update for iPad. The software updates include unspecified bug fixes and security enhancements for iPhone and iPad.
Additionally, iOS 16.7.7 and iPadOS 16.7.7 is available for older iPhone and iPad models, and thereâs an update available for Apple Vision Proâs VisionOS 1.1.1, for users who have the spatial computing headset.
The Mac login screen and lock screen displays a prominent large clock, with the date and time visible over the wallpaper or screensaver. While many users appreciate having the time and date right there at the login screen, other users may wish to hide the clock, date, and time, from the MacOS login screen.
If you want to have a more minimalist Mac login screen and hide the lock screen clock, read along and youâll achieve that result quickly.
With the Find My service, you can quickly see where a person, AirTag, or a device is on a map, and if its your own device, you can lock it down, make it play a sound, or even erase it.
But what if your or your loved one is traveling internationally? What if youâre using an Apple device abroad? Does Find My still work abroad, in other countries? What if the person or device is on a boat in the ocean, or on a cruise, in another country?
These are all reasonable questions to ask, and thatâs what weâre here to discuss.
Apple is opening a new store in the Jingâan district of Shanghai, China, this spring, and to celebrate theyâve released a really beautiful wallpaper of unfolding white and yellow flower petals in the shape of an Apple logo.
If you use your iPhone as an alarm clock, as many iPhone owners do, you may have discovered that if the iPhone alarm is sounding and ringing continuously on itâs own, eventually the iPhone alarm turns itself off automatically.
While this may be confusing if youâre used to old analog alarm clocks that will ring endlessly until directly turned off, the iPhone alarm stopping on its own is actually intentional behavior.
