by Marilyn | Nov 11, 2020 | Article, customization, Home screen, How-To, iOS 14, iPhone, productivity, widget
A significant new feature in iOS 14 is Home screen widgets, information-rich tiles that share space on a Home screen with app icons. iPhone users familiar with Google’s Android smartphone operating system have long clamored for widgets because they provide quick... 
by Marilyn | Oct 22, 2020 | Article, How-To, iPad, iPadOS 14, Scribble
With iPadOS, you have to remember that it shares most of its capabilities with iOS. So if it seems that iPadOS 14 doesn’t have as many major new capabilities as iOS 14, that’s not quite fair—many of iOS 14’s new features also appear in iPadOS 14. You’ll get pinned... 
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 28, 2020 | Adobe, Creative Cloud, How-To, Mac, Troubleshooting
Here’s the solution to a problem that clients have run into on occasion. In a workgroup that relies on Adobe Creative Cloud apps, one person might upgrade to the latest versions of Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator, whereas others don’t. Suddenly, if that person... 
by Marilyn | Aug 17, 2020 | Article, backup, hard drive, How-To, Mac, Time Machine, Troubleshooting
It’s inevitable—your Time Machine backup drive is going to fill up. Time Machine is smart about backing up only files that have changed, but after months or years of usage, the drive will run out of space. What happens then? Before we explain, some background. On its... 
by Marilyn | Oct 18, 2019 | Article, How-To, iOS 13, iPad, iPhone, productivity, text, typing
Let’s be honest—text editing in iOS has never been anywhere near as good as it is on the Mac. We may be more accustomed to our mice and keyboards, but the Multi-Touch interface has always been clumsy when it comes to text. Apple keeps trying to improve iOS’s text... 