Do you know the difference between a web browser and a search engine? Inordinately, I speak with clients who don’t. Knowing how to make this distinction is crucial to an effective troubleshooting and support experience. A web browser is a particular type of application on your Mac, iPhone, or iPad that you open and [...]
Did you know you can name the people in your photos? Doing so generates a dedicated album for each person. This is because Photos is capable of both detecting faces of people and differentiating among them. I mentioned this in Remember When?, one of my earliest entries for Mac Mondays, as part of an [...]
Did you know you can make a website appear as a standalone application? It’s long been possible to make a webpage link into a document with a generic icon. However, in macOS Sonoma, Safari adds a command called Add to Dock that puts a website’s icon in the Dock and stores it in the [...]
People have all sorts of ways to hide windows from their view on a Mac. Some folks drag them off the screen, others minimize them to the Dock, and still others prefer to close windows so they don’t exist at all. However, there’s a very simple way to clear the screen of a clutter [...]
Apple’s Handoff feature, which I previously mentioned in Mac Hot Tips #1, enables you to easily continue where you left off as you switch from one device to another. Among Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch, this works with apps that you have installed on more than one device. Handoff is an example of [...]
All alliteration aside, there are a couple key problems that may originate in Mail on your Mac and cause your email experience to hit a wall. If you’re able to resolve these Mail maladies on your own, you can return to your regularly scheduled computing without having to call for help. (Coincidentally, this is [...]
The first edition of Mac Mondays was about System Preferences and at the end of last year, I started publishing about System Settings. However, the Settings app on iPhone and iPad has received very little of my attention. On these devices, the Settings app is designed in a particular way that might seem random, [...]
As often as Quick Look is among the tips I share with clients, I’m stunned that I haven’t written a post about it until now. In fact, in nearly six years, it got only a single mention: five years ago in Command Day. Quick Look is a feature of macOS that has been around [...]
Are you someone whose gaze doesn’t regularly notice that your battery charge is getting low? Do you tend to run your batteries down to zero, beyond when the device either warns you or stops responding and then abruptly turns off? I previously wrote about iPhone batteries in Battery Health & Repair and Maximize Battery [...]
In Are You a Finder or a Keeper?, I outlined several ways to manipulate, organize, and navigate among files in the Finder. How to rename a file only got a brief mention, though. Let’s dive in further. Rename a Single Item Select a single item in the Finder and press the Return or [...]
