Save the Original Wordle & Play it Forever, Locally

Feb 6, 2022 - 7 Comments

WORDLE Forever on Mac

If you were disappointed to find out that WORDLE, the very popular word guessing game, has been sold to The New York Times, and will likely end up behind a pay-wall at some point, plus undergo who knows whatever other changes to fit the NYT style, you can preserve the original WORDLE game for yourself, to play forever.

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By Paul Horowitz - Games, Tips & Tricks - 7 Comments

How to Remove Linked Devices for Apple Purchases on PC & Mac

Feb 5, 2022 - Leave a Comment

How to Remove Linked Devices for Purchases on PC & Mac

Do you sign in to your Apple ID on a lot of different devices, let’s say your iPhone, several Mac’s, a few Windows machines, an old PC, an older iPhone or iPad or two, or even an Android device? If so, you may want to check out how many devices are associated with your account, and remove any device that you longer use or own.

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How to Set Gmail to Delete Instead of Archive in Mail app for iPhone & iPad

Feb 4, 2022 - 9 Comments

How to Set Gmail to Delete Instead of Archive in the Mail app on iPhone & iPad

Do you use a Gmail account with the stock Mail app on your iPhone or iPad? If so, you may have noticed that whenever you try to delete an email or send it to Trash by using the swipe left gesture, you get an “Archive” option instead with Gmail accounts. If you’d rather be deleting those Gmail emails in Mail app, you can change the Gmail settings to address this issue on iPhone and iPad.

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By Hamlin Rozario - iPad, iPhone, Tips & Tricks - 9 Comments

How to Mirror a Mac to TV

Feb 3, 2022 - 3 Comments

How to Screen Mirror a Mac to TV

Ever wanted to mirror your Mac to a TV, wirelessly? You can do that with most modern Macs if they support AirPlay. And many modern TV’s have built in AirPlay support too, allowing for a Mac to easily mirror its screen to the TV, right from macOS. This is easier than ever in macOS Monterey.

AirPlay support is included in many modern TV’s from LG, Samsung, Sony, Vizio, usually from the 2018 or newer model years. If your TV supports mirroring from a Mac (or iPhone, or iPad for that matter), then “AirPlay” will be available as one of the input options on the TV. If the TV doesn’t natively support AirPlay, then many devices and boxes like Apple TV or Roku include support, so you always connect one of those to the TV instead and then mirror the Mac to it.

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

How to Add Video Filters Using iMovie on iPhone

Feb 3, 2022 - 1 Comment

How to Add Video Filters Using iMovie on iPhone

Are you looking to enhance the visuals of a video or movie you captured on your iPhone to make it more appealing? Apple’s iMovie app makes it pretty easy to add filters to videos and movies right on your device, even for beginners who have never edited a video before.

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

How to Find Comprehensive Mac System Info via Terminal

Feb 2, 2022 - 1 Comment

Extensive Mac system info with system profiler command

If you’d like to find comprehensive system information about a Mac, you’ll find the Terminal is an excellent way to retrieve this data quickly.

We’ll provide a handy command that reveals extensive system information about a Mac, including the current system software version and build number, kernel version, boot volume, boot mode, computer name, active user name, virtual memory info, SIP status, uptime, Mac model name and identifier, CPU chip, number of CPU cores, memory, firmware version, OS loader version, serial number, hardware UUID, provisioning UDID, and activation lock status. You can also customize the command to get additional details about networking, storage, bluetooth, and other relevant system info data types.

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

Can’t Use Universal Control? Share Keyboard & Mouse Across Macs, PCs with Barrier

Feb 1, 2022 - 3 Comments

Use Barrier to share a keyboard and mouse across Macs and PCs

Longing for Universal Control? Want to use a single keyboard and mouse across multiple Macs, or even PCs? You can do that with Barrier, a free virtual KVM switch that allows you to share a keyboard and mouse between computers simply by dragging your mouse cursor to the other computer screen. And you even have a shared clipboard, allowing copy and paste crossing platforms between Mac, Windows, or Linux.

Barrier works great, so if you’ve been waiting for Universal Control on macOS Monterey and disappointed by its delay, this is essentially the same ability offered through an open source project.

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

How to Cancel Scheduled Emails in Gmail for iPhone & iPad

Feb 1, 2022 - Leave a Comment

How to Cancel Scheduled Emails on Gmail for iPhone

Do you use Gmail to schedule emails from your iPhone or iPad? Sometimes, you may change your mind regarding the email you scheduled, and in that situation you would want to stop it from sending automatically on the set date. Luckily, it’s really not that hard to cancel the scheduled email with the Gmail app on iOS and iPadOS.

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37 Zoom Keyboard Shortcuts for Mac

Jan 31, 2022 - Leave a Comment

Useful Zoom keyboard shortcuts for Mac

If you’re living in a world of Zoom Meetings and video conferences, you may want to familiarize yourself with the many keyboard shortcuts available for Zoom on Mac.

With keystrokes, you’ll be able to join and start meetings, mute and unmute your audio, start and stop your video, start screen sharing, view participants, raise and lower virtual hands, increase and decrease the size of the chat window, and so much more.

Ready to become a Zoom keyboard shortcut master on the Mac? Let’s check out a comprehensive list of available keyboard commands and keystrokes for the Zoom app for MacOS.

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By Paul Horowitz - Mac OS, Tips & Tricks - Leave a Comment

How to Hum to Search Songs with Google

Jan 30, 2022 - 7 Comments

How to Hum to Search Songs with Google

Ever had a song stuck in your head you don’t know the words to? Don’t know the lyrics of a song quite enough to find it on the web by just typing the lyrics? Google has a solution for you. The Google Search app can identify a song by your humming or even whistling, making it easier to discover new music. This can be done right on your iPhone or iPad.

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By Hamlin Rozario - iPad, iPhone, Tips & Tricks - 7 Comments

How to Manually Select Carrier Network on iPhone

Jan 29, 2022 - 2 Comments

How to Manually Select Carrier Network on iPhone

Is your iPhone not connecting to your network provider automatically? Perhaps, you just off an international flight and your iPhone is simply not detecting any available networks? In such cases, manual network selection may be required to access cellular services once again.

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

How to Save Images from Chrome to iPhone or iPad

Jan 28, 2022 - 2 Comments

Google Chrome Icon

If you use the Chrome web browser on iPhone or iPad, you may come to a situation where you want to save an image from the web to your device.

This is super easy, and if you’re familiar with saving images from Safari to your iPhone or iPad you’ll find the procedure is already second nature to you.

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By Paul Horowitz - iPad, iPhone, Tips & Tricks - 2 Comments

Fix “Safari Can’t Open Page NSPOSIXErrorDomain:28” Error on Mac

Jan 28, 2022 - 14 Comments

Safari cant open page NSPOSIXErrorDomain 28 error

Some Mac Safari users are encountering a Safari failure that causes a curious “NSPOSIXErrorDomain:28” error message to appear, preventing the web browser from working as usual.

The full error message appears seemingly at random when Safari on the Mac is used to open a new Safari window or tab, or when a page is trying to load, and is stated in full as follows:

Safari Can’t Open the Page.

Safari can’t open the page. The error is: “The operation couldn’t be completed. No space left on device” (NSPOSIXErrorDomain:28)

Variations of the generally vague “Safari can’t open the page” error crop up for various reasons, typically related to a hiccup in internet connectivity or service, but this particular NSPOSIXErrorDomain:28 error message is different in that it shows up even when the connection on the Mac is otherwise working as normal.

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Beta 1 of iOS 15.4, iPadOS 15.4, macOS Monterey 12.3 Available

Jan 27, 2022 - Leave a Comment

New betas of iOS 15, iPadOS 15, MacOS Monterey

Apple has released the first beta versions of iOS 15.4, iPadOS 15.4, and macOS Monterey 12.3.

iPadOS 15.4 beta and macOS Monterey 12.3 beta includes support for Universal Control, which provides the ability to use a single mouse and keyboard across multiple Macs and iPads.

iOS 15.4 beta includes a variety of new features, including the official ability to use Face ID with a mask (the old mask trick method still works too), a new Apple Card widget, iCloud Keychain notes, support for EU Digital Covid vaccination passes, and new Emoji icons including a biting lip, pregnant man, melting face, salute, low battery, bubbles, beans, hands forming a heart, troll, and more.

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How to Use Sonos as a Mac Speaker

Jan 27, 2022 - 10 Comments

Use Sonos speakers with the Mac

Want to use a Sonos speaker as your Mac speaker? You can do that, and it’s pretty simple. In fact, if you have a whole Sonos setup with multiple speakers, you can use that entire Sonos sound system as your Mac speaker too.

For example, maybe you want to use the popular Sonos One speaker or set as speakers for your Mac. No sweat! We’ll show you how to do this.

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

macOS Monterey 12.2 Update Released with Security Fixes

Jan 26, 2022 - 5 Comments

MacOS Monterey 12.2 update available to download

Apple has released macOS Monterey 12.2 for Mac users running the Monterey operating system. The update includes important security fixes and is therefore recommended for all Mac users to install.

Specifically, macOS Monterey 12.2 patches the Safari security leak that gathered some attention recently, along with patching a handful of other security holes and perhaps other issues or bugs. No new features or changes are otherwise expected in 12.2, and support for Universal Control is not included in the 12.2 release.

Mac users running macOS Big Sur and macOS Catalina will find security updates available for their system software versions as well.

Separately, iOS 15.3 and iPadOS 15.3 updates are available to address the same security issues on iPhone and iPad, and updates are also available for watchOS 8.4, HomePod, and tvOS 15.3.

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By Paul Horowitz - Mac OS, News - 5 Comments

iOS 15.3 & iPadOS 15.3 Update Released with Safari Security Fix

Jan 26, 2022 - Leave a Comment

iOS 15.3 and iPadOS 15.3 update for iPhone and iPad

Apple has released iOS 15.3 for iPhone and iPadOS 15.3 for iPad, both system software updates resolve the Safari 15 browser leak bug that generated some attention over a week ago, which allowed a nefarious site to extract a Google user ID along with website browsing data from a device.

The iOS/iPadOS 15.3 updates also include other security fixes, and perhaps a bug update or two, but the release notes are brief, simply stating that the updates are recommended for all users to install.

Additionally, Apple released macOS Monterey 12.2 update for Mac users to address the same Safari security bug, along with macOS Big Sur 11.6.3 and Security Update 2022-001 Catalina. Other system software updates are available for HomePod, watchOS 8.4, and tvOS 15.3 as well.

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How to Add an Escape Key to iPad Keyboard

Jan 26, 2022 - Leave a Comment

Get an escape key on iPad Magic Keyboard

Need an Escape key on an iPad physical keyboard? If you don’t use the iPad keyboards Caps Lock key for CAPS LOCK, perhaps you’d rather it behave as an Escape key on your iPad?

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