How to Disable “Search / Copy” Pop-Up in Opera When Selecting Text

Jul 8, 2016 - 10 Comments

Disable Opera annoying search popup

The Opera web browser is perhaps best known more recently for having a great free VPN included in the browser, and while it’s generally a good web browser alternative, the latest versions include a rather annoying pop-up feature that shows up any time any text is selected in the app. Fortunately, you can disable the pop-up nuisance and select text normally in Opera again.

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Download & Install MacOS Sierra Public Beta Right Now

Jul 7, 2016 - 14 Comments

MacOS Sierra Public Beta

MacOS Sierra Public Beta is now available to download and install for any Mac user interested in testing the upcoming operating system. Remember that beta system software is less stable and notoriously buggy, so this experience is recommended for more advanced users or those with a secondary computer they don’t mind running beta system software on.

This guide will walk through how to enroll in the macOS Sierra public beta program, as well as how to download and install macOS Sierra 10.12 public beta onto a Mac.
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By Paul Horowitz - Mac OS, News, Tips & Tricks - 14 Comments

How to Download & Install iOS 10 Public Beta Now

Jul 7, 2016 - 34 Comments

iOS 10 Public Beta

iOS 10 Public Beta is now available for any iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch user to try out and install onto their devices right away. Keeping in mind this is beta system software, the experience is buggy and much less reliable than a typical final release of iOS would be, making the beta testing participation best reserved for advanced users or at least by installing it onto a non-primary device.

We’ll show you how to enroll in the iOS 10 public beta program, and how to download and install iOS 10 public beta right now.

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By Paul Horowitz - iPad, iPhone, News, Tips & Tricks - 34 Comments

How to Reply to Emails from iPhone Mail the Right Way

Jul 6, 2016 - 4 Comments

How to Reply to Emails in iOS Mail for iPhone

Having email in your pocket is one of the many great features of an iPhone, and so properly responding to emails is rather important. This may seem obvious and straight forward, but many newcomers to the iPhone platform have difficulty with email replies, often choosing to reply to the wrong sender, to reply to an email instead of forward it, or some variation thereof.

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By Paul Horowitz - iPhone, Tips & Tricks - 4 Comments

Beta 5 of iOS 9.3.3, OS X 10.11.6, tvOS 9.2.2 Available

Jul 6, 2016 - 3 Comments

Mac OS X and iOS betas

Apple has released the fifth beta versions of iOS 9.3.3, OS X El Capitan 10.11.6, and tvOS 9.2.2. The new beta builds likely continue to improve on existing bug fixes, security enhancements, and minor adjustments as they march towards a wider general public final release.

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By Paul Horowitz - News - 3 Comments

List User Accounts on Mac from Command Line

Jul 5, 2016 - 20 Comments

Terminal in OS X

Mac administrators may find themselves in a situation where they need to display a list of all user accounts on a particular Mac by way of the command line. We’ll review a few methods for advanced individuals to list all accounts, both user and system, on any Mac with any version of Mac OS X system software.

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iOS 10 Beta 2, macOS Sierra Beta 2, & 2nd Beta of tvOS 10 & WatchOS 3 Available Now

Jul 5, 2016 - 10 Comments

iOS 10 and macOS Sierra beta releases

Apple has released the second beta version of iOS 10, the new build arrives as 14A5297c and is available for compatible iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch hardware. Likewise, Mac users will find macOS Sierra beta 2 available as an update if they are running the current developer release, and finally, tvOS 10 beta 2 and watchOS 3 beta 2 are available for Apple TV and Apple Watch devices as well.

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By Paul Horowitz - News - 10 Comments

How to Take Live Photos with iPhone for Great Action Photos

Jul 4, 2016 - 2 Comments

Take Live Photos with iPhone Camera

Action sequences are notoriously difficult to get a picture of, and that’s where taking photos with Live Photo on iPhone can be particularly great. This is especially true with any activity shots or moving items, whether it’s for sports, people goofing around, or various celebrations. For those with newer iPhone models, using the ability to shoot Live Photos with the newer cameras is a great way to get action sequences that are otherwise impossible to capture. As you’ll see, snapping Live Photos makes for a great way to capture the excitement and action of any event, sports, firework report, or even some fun with a backyard sparkler.
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By Paul Horowitz - iPhone, Tips & Tricks - 2 Comments

How to Recreate Recovery Partition in Mac OS X

Jul 3, 2016 - 42 Comments

Recreate Recovery Partition on Mac

The Recovery partition in Mac OS X is an important component of a system install in that it allows you to troubleshoot a computer, repair drives, restore from backups, and even reinstall Mac OS if need be. Nonetheless, in some specific situations you may find that a Mac does not have a Recovery partition, usually because it has either been unintentionally removed or because a drive was cloned and the Recovery partition wasn’t brought along in that duplication process.

If you find yourself in a situation where a Mac is missing the bootable recovery drive partition, you can recreate the Recovery Partition in two different ways, as we’ll show you here.

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How to Delete Site Specific Cookies in Chrome for Mac

Jul 2, 2016 - 10 Comments

Chrome icon

If you’re a Chrome web browser user, you may find yourself wanting to delete a specific website cookie (or cookies) from the browser. The benefit to removing a site specific cookie is that you don’t have to clear all web data and caches, you can target a specific cookie as needed to remove and clear. This can be very helpful for troubleshooting websites, removing traces of a visit, clearing out stubborn site settings, and many web developers in particular use this technique often.

We’re going to show you how to target site specific cookies to delete in Chrome, this is demonstrated in Chrome for Mac OS X but it works the same in other versions of Chrome for Windows and Linux too.

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By Paul Horowitz - Tips & Tricks - 10 Comments

How to Use 72 New Emoji Icons Right Now from Unicode 9

Jul 1, 2016 - 6 Comments

New Emoji is probably coming to iOS 10

iOS 10 is probably going to include 72 new emoji characters as part of the Unicode 9.0 standard, but you don’t have to wait for the next generation operating system if you want to start having fun with the new emojis right now.

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By Paul Horowitz - iPhone, Tips & Tricks - 6 Comments

8 Simple iPhone Security Tips

Jun 30, 2016 - 20 Comments

iPhone security tips

An iPhone contains huge amounts of detailed personal information about the owner, including emails, contact lists, banking information, personal notes, pictures, and much more, all of which most users want to keep private and secure. Fortunately the iPhone makes having a secured device pretty user friendly, and even novice users can take a few fairly simple precautions to make sure their devices are secure and locked down.

The approaches we’ll cover here will help keep prying eyes away from your personal data, even if someone was to gain access to your iPhone by theft or otherwise.

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By Paul Horowitz - iPhone, Security, Tips & Tricks - 20 Comments

Get Procreate Free, the Amazing Painting App for iPhone

Jun 29, 2016 - 74 Comments

Procreate painting app for iPhone

Procreate is easily one of the best painting, drawing, and illustration apps available for iOS, with an amazing array of brushes, features, layers support, and so much more. If you’re even slightly artistically minded or just like to sketch a bit, it blows the iOS Notes drawing tools out of the water by a bazillion orders of magnitude. It’s well worth buying, but right now it’s available free from Apple for a limited time, so iPhone users can grab Procreate Pocket right now.

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By Paul Horowitz - iPad, iPhone, News - 74 Comments

How to Change Mac System Language via Command Line

Jun 29, 2016 - 2 Comments

Change Mac system language from command line

Polyglots, learners, and the bilingual often want to change their Mac system language for obvious reasons, but another less obvious situation can occur if you’re troubleshooting a Mac that either originates in another country, had the language changed at some point, or is just set to a different language.

Since it can be pretty challenging to navigate around in a language you don’t know at all or barely understand, it may be difficult to add and change the language in Mac OS X through System Preferences, and sometimes that easy approach is just downright impossible or inaccessible, perhaps because you’re reinstalling system software, or booted into Single User Mode for troubleshooting purposes.

But not to panic, you can also change the system language used on a Mac from the command line, handled entirely from the Terminal. This means you can either change the language directly from an active Terminal app, or even through ssh remotely if need be.
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Beta 4 of iOS 9.3.3, OS X El 10.11.6, tvOS 9.2.2 Released

Jun 29, 2016 - 2 Comments

Mac OS X and iOS betas

The fourth beta versions of iOS 9.3.3, OS X El Capitan 10.11.6, and tvOS 9.2.2 have been released to users participating in both the developer beta program and the public beta testing programs.

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By Paul Horowitz - News - 2 Comments

Safari Web Content “Not Responding” on Mac? Fix the Beach Ball with These Tips

Jun 28, 2016 - 16 Comments

Safari web content not responding fixes for Mac

Mac Safari users may occasionally experience an issue where the web browser becomes unresponsive for an extended period of time, usually accompanied by the appearance of the spinning multi-color beach ball cursor. With a little digging under the hood, this almost always corresponds with the appearance of “Safari Web Process (Not Responding)” showing up in Activity Monitor in MacOS and Mac OS X.

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Check iCloud Email from a Windows PC or Anywhere via Web

Jun 27, 2016 - 20 Comments

Check iCloud Mail from Anywhere

Many Apple users don’t know this, but you can access your iCloud.com email address from anywhere. That means you can read, write, forward, and save drafts of any iCloud emails, and it’s all done through the web. The great thing about this approach is that allows a user to check and use iCloud.com email without requiring a Mac, iPhone, or iPad, since the web based client is accessible from any device on any operating system, a Windows PC or Android device included.

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By Paul Horowitz - Tips & Tricks - 20 Comments

The Mac “Differentiate without color” Accessibility Setting Explained

Jun 26, 2016 - 10 Comments

Differentiate without color in Mac OS X

Mac users who have explored the Display Accessibility preference panels, perhaps to disable transparency or to increase visual contrast, have likely seen another setting called “Differentiate without color.” If you have wondered what that setting does or means, you’re certainly not alone, and you may have even toggled it on or off trying to see any difference through Mac OS X.

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

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