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... 
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... 
by Marilyn | May 14, 2021 | keyboard shortcut, Mac, productivity, Tip, word processing
When you copy text from a Web page, PDF, or word processing document, macOS usually includes the associated formatting, so the words you paste may end up in 68-point blue italic if that was what the source text looked like. That’s often undesirable. More commonly, you... 
by Marilyn | May 11, 2021 | iPhone, location, Maps, Messages, productivity, Tip
We’ve all gotten that panicked “Where are you?!?” text message at some point. Sometimes it’s an easy question to answer, but at other times, the answer is “Well, right here, wherever that is.” That’s unsatisfying, of course, but using Messages on your iPhone, you can... 
by Marilyn | May 3, 2021 | Article, Explainer, InDesign, Mac, Microsoft Word, page layout, Pages, productivity, word processing
Some of the trickiest editing and proofreading problems are related to characters you can’t typically see on the screen: spaces, tabs, and returns. Just because they’re invisible doesn’t mean they don’t affect the look of a document, often in negative ways. For... 
by Marilyn | Apr 22, 2021 | Article, Dropbox, File Sharing, Google Docs, How-To, iCloud, iCloud Drive, iPad, iPhone, Mac, productivity
Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, and Microsoft OneDrive all have their place, but as of March 2020, Apple users no longer have to venture outside the Apple ecosystem for online folder sharing. Before then, you could share a single file in iCloud with another iCloud user,...