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iPhone Tips for July 4th: Take Amazing Fireworks Photos & Videos

Jul 3, 2025 - Leave a Comment
iPhone tips for July 4 fireworks

If you’re heading out to watch fireworks this July 4th, you might want to capture the moments with some great photos or videos of fireworks. With just a few simple tips, you’ll be snapping great fireworks photos and smooth videos with just your trusty iPhone.

How to Run MacOS Tahoe 26 Beta in a UTM Virtual Machine

Jul 2, 2025 - 1 Comment
MacOS Tahoe beta VM in UTM

There are a variety of different ways to run MacOS Tahoe 26 beta, including installing it as an upgrade to an existing MacOS installation (which is not recommended for most people, by the way), but by far the safest and perhaps simplest way is to use a virtual machine. Virtual Machines (VM) offer isolated virtualized … Read More

How to Install iPadOS 26 Beta on iPad

Jun 30, 2025 - Leave a Comment
iPadOS 26

iPadOS 26 offers a compelling set of features for iPad users that they have long asked for, including Mac-like windowing, improved multitasking capabilities, an improved Files app, the inclusion of Preview app, Phone app, plus all the popular iOS 26 features like the new Liquid Glass interface appearance, a redesigned Lock Screen, wallpapers in Messages, … Read More

Create a MacOS Tahoe 26 Beta VM with Three Commands in Terminal Using tart

Jun 25, 2025 - Leave a Comment
MacOS Tahoe 26 beta running in a tart virtual machine

Advanced Mac users who are savvy with the command line can rapdly build a MacOS Tahoe 26 beta virtual machine by issuing a few commands into the Terminal, with the help of tart. tart is a command line tool for managing virtual machines, and it’s one of the absolute fastest ways to get a virtual … Read More

How to Create a Bootable macOS Tahoe 26 Beta USB Installer Drive

Jun 24, 2025 - 2 Comments
Creating a bootable MacOS Tahoe install drive for Mac

Creating a bootable macOS Tahoe installer USB is a handy way to perform clean installs, upgrade multiple Macs without redownloading, or keep a trusted recovery disk at your fingertips. Making a bootable Tahoe installer has a few requirements, but if you’ve got a spare flash USB drive, and don’t mind using the Terminal app, you’ll … Read More

Can You Use New AirPods Pro 2 on Older iPhone or iPad?

Jun 20, 2025 - Leave a Comment
AirPods Pro

If you’ve recently acquired some new AirPods or AirPods Pro, you might be in a situation where you’re wondering if the latest models of AirPods work with an older iPhone or iPad. This is a very important question, since many people will be in a situation where they themselves either buy new AirPods or gift … Read More

How to Fix the MacOS Tahoe Beta Virtual Machine “software update is required” Error

Jun 18, 2025 - 1 Comment
Software Update required for installing macOS Tahoe in a virtual machine but the update fails

If you have attempted to install MacOS Tahoe beta into a virtual machine by using the Tahoe installer or IPSW file, you might run into a looping failure where you’ll see a request to install a software update, to which you may attempt to install the update but it fails, followed by an “Installation failed. … Read More

iPadOS 26 Compatible Device List: Does My iPad Support iPadOS 26?

Jun 18, 2025 - Leave a Comment
iPadOS 26 features

iPadOS 26 has been announced, and it offers some of the most significant changes to iPadOS in a while. With a huge emphasis on improving multitasking capabilities, iPadOS 26 introduces a windowing system, a menu bar, window tiling, Expose, and you can now place files and folders in the Dock too. But that’s not all, … Read More

How to Install MacOS Tahoe 26 Beta Right Now

Jun 17, 2025 - 3 Comments
How to install MacOS Tahoe 26 beta

MacOS Tahoe 26 features the all new Liquid Glass interface, brings the Phone app to the Mac, big Spotlight changes with actions, new Apple Intelligence features, a new Games app, backgrounds are added to Messages for the WhatsApp fans, Live Activities from iPhone, and much more. With so many new features combined with a significant … Read More

iOS 26 Supported iPhone List: Will Your iPhone Run iOS 26?

Jun 16, 2025 - 3 Comments
iOS 26 compatible iPhone list

iOS 26 is out, with it’s all new shiny Liquid Glass interface, and new features like backgrounds and polling in Messages app, improvements to Apple Intelligence, Live Translation in FaceTime, Phone, and Messages, CarPlay improvements, enhancements to the Phone app, a new Games app, and more. It’s no wonder there’s so much interest in iOS … Read More

MacOS Tahoe 26 Compatible Mac List & System Requirements

Jun 13, 2025 - 2 Comments
MacOS Tahoe 26 compatible Mac list

MacOS Tahoe 26 is here, and right from the start you can see the difference with the all new Liquid Glass interface appearance and styling, with it’s heavy use of translucency, shiny icons and buttons, and all around revamped appearance. Of course MacOS Tahoe is much more than skin deep though, and there’s many new … Read More

How to Install iOS 26 Beta on iPhone Right Now

Jun 12, 2025 - Leave a Comment
How to install iOS 26 beta

iOS 26 for iPhone and iPadOS 26 for iPad has been announced by Apple, and the first beta versions are available to users partcipating in the developer beta programs. With the beta for iOS 26 and iPadOS 26, users can get an early look at the nifty shiny new Liquid Glass interface and it’s redesigned … Read More

Anyone Can Install iOS 26 Developer Beta (But You Probably Shouldn’t)

Jun 11, 2025 - Leave a Comment
You can install iOS 26 beta right now, but you should not

Apple has enthralled the world with some pretty significant visual overhauls to the iPhone and iPad system software, featuring the all new Liquid Glass appearance style. With a new look, plus many new features, it’s no wonder that so many Apple users are curious about downloading iOS 26 beta and installing it right away. And … Read More

CodeEdit Might be the Best Free Code Editor for Mac

Jun 5, 2025 - 4 Comments
CodeEdit for Mac

CodeEdit is an increasingly popular, free, open source native code editor for Mac that offers a super lightweight and speedy alternative to other code editors for Mac like Xcode, Zed, Visual Studio Pro, and other similar apps and IDEs. CodeEdit offers a fast experience that feels like it was built for MacOS, with many of … Read More

How to Adjust Font Smoothing in macOS Sequoia & macOS Sonoma

Jun 4, 2025 - 1 Comment
The Mac Finder icon

Font Smoothing is a longstanding feature in MacOS that aims to make rendered screen text more legible, and it works by subtly blending the edges of display fonts with the background by using anti-aliasing. The idea is to reduce the jaggedness of screen text, but in practice nowadays it basically makes screen fonts on the … Read More

How to Enable iCloud Private Relay on Mac

Jun 3, 2025 - 2 Comments
How to enable iCloud Private Relay on Mac

iCloud Private Relay is a fantastic privacy feature that is part of the iCloud+ subscription that helps to protect your internet activity and browsing by obfuscating your IP address (via using a temporary IP address) and encrypting your DNS lookups, so that third parties can’t see what websites you’re visiting. The end result is that … Read More

Explaining cloudd, photolibraryd, & cloudphotod Processes in MacOS

Jun 2, 2025 - 1 Comment
The MacOS processes cloudd, photolibraryd, nsurlsessiond, & cloudphotod may confuse some Mac users but they are normal processes as we explain here

If you’re a Mac user and you’ve ever opened Activity Monitor to explore why your Mac might be feeling slow, it’s likely that you’ve seen a few processes running that could be using a lot of CPU, energy, or memory, in particular cloudd, cloudphotod, photolibraryd, and nsurlsessiond. So what the heck are these processes that … Read More

How to Play Fortnite on Mac with FnMacAssistant & Sideloadly

May 31, 2025 - Leave a Comment
Downloading Fortnite onto the Mac and then using fnMacAssistant to patch the Fortnite app too

Gamers everywhere are happy that Fortnite is back for iPhone and iPad users, but there’s no Mac client in sight (yet anyway). That doesn’t mean you can’t play Fortnite on the Mac though, because if you have an Apple Silicon Mac, and you’re comfortable running some mods and tweaks, you can get the iOS/iPadOS version … Read More

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