Mac & iOS Tips & Tricks Archives

Copy and Paste between Your Apple Devices with Universal Clipboard

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Everyone is accustomed to using the Copy and Paste commands on the Mac, but fewer people know that you can also copy and paste between your Mac and your iPhone […]

Business Uses of the Apple TV—Really!

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Many people have an Apple TV in the living room, hooked to a large-screen TV. It’s a great streaming media box for Apple TV+, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and a […]

The Best Characters to Use When Naming Files and Folders

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Back in the early 1980s, DOS filenames couldn’t be more than 8 characters long with a period and a 3-character extension. That was limiting, so when Apple developed the Mac […]

How to Recover from Overzealous Auto-Correct Curly Quotes

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Most of the time, it’s appropriate when an auto-correct feature turns single and double hash marks into single and double curly quotes. However, there are times when the curly quotes […]

iOS 15 Brings Back the Text Magnifier, but Trackpad Mode Is Easier

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Prior to iOS 13, when you were editing text on an iPhone or iPad, Apple provided a magnifying glass that showed the position of the insertion point. It worked, but […]

Put Files in the Mac’s Trash Using the Keyboard

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You know that you can drag files or folders to the Trash icon in the Dock for later deletion. And you probably know that you can select multiple items on […]

Copy and Paste Like a Pro with a Clipboard Utility

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For our money, perhaps the most unheralded innovation of the computer age is Copy and Paste. No one thinks about the clipboard—that virtual shelf where copied text and images sit—because […]

Block Malicious and Adult Web Sites with DNS Filtering

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One of the best ways to keep malware from infecting your computers is to avoid visiting websites designed to do just that. No one intentionally visits loadmetogetinfected.com, but malware authors […]

Hidden Tricks for Navigating the Mac’s App Switcher More Quickly

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Although the Mac’s Dock shows all your running apps, it’s often not the most efficient way to switch among them. Instead, turn to the App Switcher. You may know that […]

Export Passwords from Safari to Ease the Move to a Password Manager

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Although Apple has improved the built-in password management features in macOS and iOS (you can now add notes to password entries!), third-party password managers like 1Password and LastPass are still […]

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