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How to Enable Caps Lock on iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch

Mar 1, 2012 - 4 Comments
Enable Caps Lock on iPhone and iPad

CAPS LOCK is a either loved or hated, but regardless of the variety of opinions on capitalizing every single letter typed out, it can sometimes be just outright necessary. If you find yourself needing to use caps lock on an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, it’s really easy to turn on and turn off, and … Read More

How to Sync an iPhone to a New Computer Without Losing Data

Feb 29, 2012 - 83 Comments
Sync iPhone to a new Mac

By far the easiest way to sync an iPhone to a new Mac or Windows PC is to transfer all iPhone files and backups from the old computer to the new one. The necessary data is stored in several different locations, and we’ll cover what files and where they go for both Mac OS X … Read More

How to Delete Multiple eMails in iOS

Feb 29, 2012 - 9 Comments
Delete Multiple Emails in iOS

Deleting a group of emails in iOS Mail is fairly straight forward, it entails manually selecting each specific email you want to delete, and then relocating them to the Trash. This process of deleting multiple emails is the same on Mail app for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. We’ll cover the exact steps to take.

Enable (or Disable) Read Receipts in iMessage for Mac

Feb 29, 2012 - 5 Comments
Read Receipts in iMessage for Mac

Read Receipts show the sender of a message that a message has been delivered these are enabled by default in iMessages for iOS, but they are disabled by default in Message for Mac. If you’re interested in having the read receipts sent along with each message received on your Mac, you can toggle a setting … Read More

Find & Scan Wireless Networks from the Command Line in Mac OS X

Feb 28, 2012 - 12 Comments
Terminal in macOS

A long hidden airport command line utility buried deep in Mac OS X can be used to scan for and find available wireless networks. This powerful tool is very helpful for network admins and systems administrators, but it’s handy for the average user to help discover nearby wi-fi routers as well.

Mark Multiple Emails as Read on iPhone

Feb 28, 2012 - 6 Comments
Mark Multiple Emails as Read iPhone

If you’re suffering from email overload, sometimes the easiest thing to do is just mark everything as read and start over again. While there is no select all or mark all as read option in iOS, you can mark multiple emails as read on the iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch as long as you select … Read More

Find a MAC Address in Mac OS X

Feb 28, 2012 - 8 Comments
Find MAC address Mac OS X

A MAC address is a unique identifier that is assigned to each physical network interface on a computer. Different than a computers IP address, MAC addresses are frequently used for network access control and to monitor network connectivity, and they can be spoofed for virtualization needs or to circumvent some network limitations. If you need … Read More

10 Keyboard Shortcuts for Text Navigation & Manipulation in the Command Line

Feb 27, 2012 - 4 Comments
Navigate text in the command line

We recently covered 12 keyboard shortcuts to help navigate around and manipulate text in Mac OS X, and now we’ll show you a handful of similar tricks for use at the command line. These shortcuts can be used just about anywhere in the Terminal, including the bash prompt.

Change Mail Apps “Mark As Read” Behavior in Mac OS X

Feb 27, 2012 - 9 Comments
Mail apps Mark as Read behavior

Have you ever noticed that Mail app registers a message as “read” after it has been clicked? The automatic “mark as read” feature makes it easy to quickly skim through a bunch of emails, but Mail doesn’t offer much control over the the delay for when messages are marked read.

How to Tell If Someone Was Using Your Mac

Feb 25, 2012 - 8 Comments
Find the last wake time

Although everyone should always password protect a Mac to prevent unauthorized use, not everyone does. Sometimes people share general logins, be it with a roommate, sibling, spouse or whoever else. Now, if you have ever wondered if someone was using your computer while you were away, there’s actually a pretty easy method to find out … Read More

How to Find iMessage Users & Contacts from iPhone or Mac OS X

Feb 25, 2012 - 22 Comments
Find iMessage Users

Wondering if a particular contact or person is using iMessage? You can find that out rather easily from an iPhone, iPad, or Mac. iMessage is a great addition to iOS and Mac OS X that lets you send unlimited text messages, pictures, videos, documents, and even files, between other iMessage users. Though you probably know … Read More

Swipe to Return Missed Calls From iPhone Lock Screen

Feb 25, 2012 - 15 Comments
Return missed call iPhone

Miss a phone call? Rather than tapping through to the recent call log and finding the last caller, you can immediately return a missed call by swiping to the right on the phone icon alongside the callers name, directly from the iPhone lock screen. You’ll need iOS 5 or later and Notifications Center must be … Read More

IR_Black Theme Add Colors Easily to the Terminal in Mac OS X

Feb 24, 2012 - 7 Comments
IR_Black theme for OS X Terminal

We recently covered the classic method of adding colors to the command line by editing .bash_profile, but it turns out that Terminal in OS X Lion and OS X Mountain Lion both support custom ANSI colors, giving the ability to easily change the ansi color scheme through external theme files. One such color scheme is … Read More

Transfer Contacts to iPhone Without iTunes

Feb 24, 2012 - 57 Comments
Import vCard contacts to iPhone

Need to quickly transfer contacts to an iPhone without using iTunes or connecting the iPhone to a computer? The easiest way to do this is by emailing a vCard file containing all the contacts to the phone, these .vcf files can be exported from many other phones, another iPhone, Address Book, Google and Gmail, Yahoo, … Read More

12 Keyboard Shortcuts for Navigating & Selecting Text in Mac OS X

Feb 23, 2012 - 33 Comments
Text Selection and Navigation Shortcuts

Work with text often? You can navigate, select, and manipulate text faster than ever before by remembering these twelve keyboard shortcuts.

Mac Won’t Remember a Wireless Network Password? Here’s How to Fix It

Feb 22, 2012 - 11 Comments
Delete Airport Keychains

We recently covered how to resolve an issue when Mac OS X doesn’t remember a wireless network, password protected or not, and since then several readers have notified us of another separate issue: Mac OS X won’t remember a wireless network password. The networks are remembered, but each time the network is found the password … Read More

Enable Screen Zoom Gestures in iOS for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch

Feb 22, 2012 - 5 Comments
Zoom for iPhone and iPad

iOS has an optional system wide zoom ability accessible by a gesture, much like OS X’s zoom feature. This allows any iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch user to zoom into elements or text on screen, making them much larger and easier to read, interpret, or access. To use the extra zoom gestures on an iPad, … Read More

Get Launchpad for Mac OS X Snow Leopard

Feb 21, 2012 - 19 Comments
Launchpad for Mac OS X Snow Leopard

Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard users can now add OS X Lion’s iOS-style Launchpad feature to their desktops with a free third party utility called MacLaunchPad. MacLaunchPad is pretty similar to the real thing, and some features are closer to the version of Launchpad that appears in OS X Mountain Lion, like the real-time … Read More

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