A list of contacts rife with duplicates can be a plague in one’s technology experience, especially when they contain different information. It’s often mysterious how an address book can become so cluttered. I think this condition is often caused by syncing devices with cloud accounts and/or different default accounts on each of multiple devices. [...]
If New Year’s is good for one thing, it’s resolving to do things you can afford to fail to do after a week or two. But at least you can make an effort to experiment with a new habit or routine. For extra motivation, make your resolution in collaboration with someone else. And keep [...]
In the event of your demise, timely or un-, it’s valuable for loved ones and/or trusted individuals to be able to access your personal digital information. Enabling them to sign into your online accounts is a common information collection tactic recommended by estate planners. Apple has done us one better with its new Digital Legacy offering. [...]
Do you use an Android phone? Are you completely in love with your device and the experience of using it? No judgment or shame if you are, but if you use a Mac and feel it’s time to get a new phone, are you open to considering an iPhone? There are a lot of [...]
One of the ways “Sustainable Computing” is aligned with me exclusively supporting Mac users is that Macs tend to use less energy than PCs. This is primarily due to Apple controlling the whole widget, tightly integrating its hardware and software. Apple provides a healthy set of choices for how to manage energy and its [...]
In followup on Safari in iOS 15 from two months ago, here are some more tips for interacting with webpages and tabs in Safari on iPhone and iPad. Zoom Out to Show Tabs Looking at any webpage in Safari on iPhone or iPad, you can pinch to zoom out of the page and show it [...]
Today’s tip is a reminder of how easily you can type “.com” at the end of an email address or website on your iPhone or iPad. A Keyboard For the Task When typing a website URL in a web browser, adding the email address of a message recipient, or entering one of these [...]
Here are a handful of Mac shortcuts you might have never learned that make it easy to locate, move, rename, and share documents, without having to create duplicates or go on a wild goose chase for the files themselves. Show in Finder To locate an open document in the Finder, hold Command and click the [...]
There are some key efficiency tips on iPhone and iPad that I feel are worth repeating. I hope you’re using these to be more productive on your devices. I previously discussed these in Efficient Dexterity, iPhone Hot Tips #2, and XCV Shortcuts. .com, Etc. with Long Press (& Swipe) When using the email or website keyboard [...]
iOS 15 brings improvements to Siri as a productivity assistant, helping us easily share the things we discover via our devices. In various apps with a Share button (), rather than tap the button yourself, you can ask Siri to share the item. Share via Messages Say “Hey Siri, share this with [name]” and your device [...]
