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Reduce Your Email Load with Three Features in Apple’s Mail: Mute, Block, and Unsubscribe

Reduce Your Email Load with Three Features in Apple’s Mail: Mute, Block, and Unsubscribe

by Marilyn | Jul 16, 2021 | Article, How-To, iPad, iPhone, Mac, Mail, productivity

Complaining about getting too much email is like complaining about bad traffic—we brought it upon ourselves, and while it’s impossible to escape entirely, it’s worth knowing how to reduce it. Apple is fully cognizant of the issue, too, and has built features into the...
What Is This “App Tracking Transparency” Apple Added to iOS 14.5?

What Is This “App Tracking Transparency” Apple Added to iOS 14.5?

by Marilyn | Jun 22, 2021 | Article, Explainer, iOS 14, iPadOS 14, privacy

You’ve likely seen mention of the dispute between Apple and Facebook. It revolves around App Tracking Transparency (ATT), a technology Apple released in iOS 14.5. The goal of ATT is to give iPhone and iPad users more control over the extent to which app makers can...
Share Your Apple Card with People in Your Family Sharing Group

Share Your Apple Card with People in Your Family Sharing Group

by Marilyn | Jun 17, 2021 | Apple Card, Family Sharing, Tip

Apple did a good job rethinking some aspects of credit card use with the Apple Card, but one omission was the inability to share it with other family members. With the new Apple Card Family, once everyone has upgraded to iOS 14.6, you can add members of your Family...
The Ten Upcoming Mac/iPhone/iPad Features We Think You’ll Most Like

The Ten Upcoming Mac/iPhone/iPad Features We Think You’ll Most Like

by Marilyn | Jun 16, 2021 | Article, customization, FaceTime, iOS 15, iPad, iPadOS 15, iPhone, Mac, Monterey, News, privacy, productivity, Siri, watchOS 8, widget

At its Worldwide Developer Conference keynote on June 7th, Apple shared details about what we can expect to see later this year in macOS 12 Monterey, iOS 15, iPadOS 15, watchOS 8, tvOS 15, and HomePod Software 15. It was a firehose of announcements, but one thing...
What Is the Cloud?

What Is the Cloud?

by Marilyn | Jun 7, 2021 | Article, Dropbox, Explainer, Google, Google Docs, Google Drive, iCloud, iCloud Drive

People talk about “the cloud” all the time these days, but what do they really mean? There’s no agreed-on definition, which can render some conversations nearly inscrutable. We can’t pretend to have the final answer—if there will ever be such a thing—but here’s how we...
AirTag Basics and How to Protect Yourself from Stalking

AirTag Basics and How to Protect Yourself from Stalking

by Marilyn | Jun 3, 2021 | AirTag, Article, Bluetooth, Explainer, iOS 14, iPhone, Ultra Wideband

Apple’s new AirTag tracking device is an amazing bit of technology—it’s an elegant disc about the size of a stack of four US quarters that communicates its location with other Apple devices using Bluetooth and Ultra Wideband. Pair an AirTag with your iPhone and put it...
How to Digitize Your Signature So You’re Ready for Online Document Signing

How to Digitize Your Signature So You’re Ready for Online Document Signing

by Marilyn | Jun 3, 2021 | Apple Pencil, Article, How-To, iOS, iPad, iPhone, Mac, PDF, Preview, productivity

Over the last decade, and particularly during the last year of pandemic life, documents have become more likely to arrive in email or as downloads than on paper. If you need to return a signed document on paper, it’s easy to print and sign it before popping it in the...
Web Ads: Making the Best of a Lose-Lose Scenario

Web Ads: Making the Best of a Lose-Lose Scenario

by Marilyn | Jun 2, 2021 | ad blocker, Article, Explainer, privacy, productivity, Web browser

Typically, we like to help you solve problems in these articles. But there’s one problem we all face that has no good solution: ads on Web pages. Let us explain the background, after which you can decide how you want to proceed. Put simply, advertising is the economic...
Don’t Store Confidential Files in Online File Sharing Services

Don’t Store Confidential Files in Online File Sharing Services

by Marilyn | May 27, 2021 | File Sharing, iPad, iPhone, Mac, privacy, Security, Tip

Given their integration into the Mac’s Finder, it can be easy to forget that online file sharing services like Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud Drive, and Microsoft OneDrive can be accessed using a Web browser by anyone with your username and password. Obviously, you...
Intuit Has Stopped Updating the QuickBooks Online Mac App; Switch to a Web Browser

Intuit Has Stopped Updating the QuickBooks Online Mac App; Switch to a Web Browser

by Marilyn | May 24, 2021 | Mac, Security, Tip

If you’re using QuickBooks Online with the service’s Mac app to manage your business’s accounting, you may have seen a message like the one below announcing that Intuit has stopped updating the QuickBooks Online app. This doesn’t affect your QuickBooks Online account,...
Not a Fan of Big Sur’s Translucent Menu Bar? Here’s How to Disable It

Not a Fan of Big Sur’s Translucent Menu Bar? Here’s How to Disable It

by Marilyn | May 21, 2021 | accessibility, Big Sur, customization, Mac, menu bar, Tip

In macOS 11 Big Sur, Apple went back to a design direction from the earliest days of Mac OS X: a translucent menu bar. Since its color changes depending on the desktop picture, many people aren’t enamored of it (left, below). Luckily, reverting to the traditional...
Work with iOS App Updates in Your Account in the App Store

Work with iOS App Updates in Your Account in the App Store

by Marilyn | May 20, 2021 | iOS, Tip, Troubleshooting, updates

If you’ve turned on automatic App Updates in Settings > App Store on your iPhone or iPad, you might wonder how you’d know if an app was updated or what changed. To find that information, open the App Store app and tap your avatar icon in the upper-right corner....
Are You Incurring Technical Debt? Avoid It by Staying Current

Are You Incurring Technical Debt? Avoid It by Staying Current

by Marilyn | May 19, 2021 | Article, business, Explainer, Hardware, maintenance, upgrade

Have you heard the term technical debt? It’s what you incur whenever you delay upgrading software and hardware for too long. It’s like forgetting to brush your teeth regularly and putting off dental checkups. There may be no immediate downside, but the ongoing...
Four Ways to Reduce Zoom Fatigue

Four Ways to Reduce Zoom Fatigue

by Marilyn | May 18, 2021 | Article, customization, How-To, iPad, iPhone, Mac, productivity, videoconferencing

After a long day of video calls, you might feel like your brain has been wrung out like a wet washcloth—we certainly do. It’s exhausting to stare into a computer for hours every day while participating in meetings or classes. This condition is called Zoom fatigue, and...
Privacy Tip: Don’t Post Vaccination Record Cards on Social Media

Privacy Tip: Don’t Post Vaccination Record Cards on Social Media

by Marilyn | May 17, 2021 | privacy, Tip

So you’ve gotten your COVID-19 vaccination. Congratulations, and thank you for nudging the planet closer to the herd immunity needed for life to return to normal! It’s a good idea to take a photo of your card as a backup before filing it with your other important...
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