by Marilyn | Sep 3, 2020 | Article, customization, How-To, Mac, MacBook Pro, productivity, Touch Bar
In 2016, Apple introduced the Touch Bar with the MacBook Pro. It’s a long, thin display above the number keys on the keyboard that shows a variety of buttons and controls. By default, it changes depending on which app you’re in, and it also displays the Control Strip,... 
by Marilyn | Aug 31, 2020 | customization, Mac, scroll, System Preferences, Tip
On the Mac, scroll bars are essential for both orienting yourself and navigating within a Web page or document window. But they may not appear unless you hover the pointer over the right spot or start scrolling with a gesture on a trackpad or a turn of a mouse scroll... 
by Marilyn | Aug 21, 2020 | Apple Pros, Apple Watch, APros Archive, Article, ASMC, ASMC Archive, customization, iPhone, Restricted Content, screen, Solution, zoom
If you have 20/20 vision or are still wondering why your parents have reading glasses, count yourself lucky. But if you’re like many people—over 60 percent of the population by some estimates, including most people over 45—reading the tiny text on your iPhone or Apple... 
by Marilyn | Jul 13, 2020 | customization, Dock, Home screen, iOS, Tip
If you have lots of apps on your iPhone or iPad, rearranging their icons on your Home screens by dragging from page to page is tedious. Although the new App Library promised for iOS 14 later this year will help you find apps, rearranging them will still be a manual... 
by Marilyn | Sep 16, 2019 | customization, iOS, Mail, notifications, Tip
Few people get so little email that they want an iPhone notification for every message that rolls in. But many of us have just a couple of people—our personal VIPs—whose messages are important enough to warrant an alert. If that’s true for you, and you want to know... 
by Marilyn | Sep 9, 2019 | customization, Finder, Mac, Tip
Do you have a document that you open regularly, perhaps from your Desktop? If you’d like to make it stand out from other documents, why not give it a custom icon? This was common practice on the Mac back in the day, and it’s still possible in modern versions of macOS.... 