Client Notes Last week, I helped Jesse recover 30GB of storage on his decade-old MacBook Air, emptying fully 25% of its paltry capacity. He and his wife hope the machine might hang on a little longer before they replace it with a recent model for under $1,500. Also, while working with Stephanie, we reset [...]
Shortly after iOS 18 was released, I received a text message from a contact who had made one of the words bold. I had never seen bold text outside of a message subject, a feature I never even use anyway. I was impressed to discover that the new version enables adding style to messages [...]
iOS 18 includes a new feature that may prevent motion sickness while using your iPhone or iPad in a moving vehicle. The underlying problem is based on a sensory mismatch wherein the eyes prefer to perceive movement that is in sync within their moving body. Looking at a page or screen with a static [...]
What’s the first thing you notice about the app icons in the home screen images shown below? iOS 18 adds several advancements to customizing your iPhone and iPad home screens, including changing the style and color of app icons. Stepping beyond the basics I presented in Reorganize Your Apps, you can now also remove [...]
One of the hottest new features in iOS 18 and macOS 15 is iPhone Mirroring. This is a way to wirelessly display and interact with an iPhone in a window on a Mac. To accomplish this, iPhone and Mac running these versions must also be signed into the same Apple Account. There are very [...]
Continuing this series of desk cleaning, how often do you dust your desk and clean accumulated grime off your devices? Many of my clients who own an iMac other desktop computer only dust off their desks thoroughly when replacing their computer. Depending on how dirty one’s space is, this can lead to other unexpected [...]
In Desktop Reflection, I shared some tips for making your Mac desktop mimic your physical desk. If the place you work is clean and uncluttered, do you attempt the same feat with your digital experience? A Clean Desk I spent most of yesterday cleaning my desk and very little time sitting there. I [...]
How much attention do you pay to junk mail? In my accounts, I find the volume runs in waves. For example, I've seen Russian spam on various channels come in droves for a short while and then not for a long time. I’ve briefly mentioned spam email in the context of your awareness of [...]
Did you know that any application capable of printing can generate a PDF instead? You don’t even need a printer. The Mac’s underlying ability to display still graphics on the screen has always been based on the Adobe PDF standard. Thanks to Apple’s design ingenuity, macOS has included PDF functions in the Print dialog [...]
Did you know you can copy the path to a file on your Mac and link to it from a document? You can do this anywhere that supports embedding a link in text or simply makes a URL clickable. This way, you can internally reference a file and sometimes open it directly from the [...]
