Category: Tips

Get more from your Apple products using these great tips.

June 23, 2019

The Apple Watch water damage guide

Everything you need to know about Apple Watch water resistance, how to protect your watch and what to do if your watch gets wetter or deeper underwater than it should.

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June 22, 2019

How to call your Voicemail from any iPhone, Android or landline

This is what you need to know to listen to your voicemail when you don’t have your iPhone with you because it’s lost, stolen, damaged our simply out of power.

Apple / Mac / Tips

June 21, 2019

How to prevent Mac malware – don’t steal

BirdMiner Mac malware is a poster child for life outside Apple’s curated App Store model, and also shows that if you want software (or anything else) for nothing, you’re doing it wrong. How to avoid it:

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June 21, 2019

How to send location on iPhone (Apple Watch)

You can quickly and easily send someone your location using an iPhone or Apple Watch. Here’s how to send current location:

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June 20, 2019

How to solve Apple ID/firmware errors when updating your AirPort base stations

What to do if you hit the ‘Apple ID or password is incorrect or couldn’t be authenticated’ or ‘error occurred while downloading the firmware’ problems when you try to update your AirPort Base Station.

Apple / Mac / Stuff / Tips

June 20, 2019

How to get the Catalina Public Beta for your Mac

Apple will release the macOS Catalina public beta pretty soon: How to you get it, install it, and what will it bring to your Mac?

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June 19, 2019

All the new iPad OS keyboard commands and gestures

Coming in fall, iPad OS introduces a range of new text-handling gestures and keyboard commands – learn them and download them to keep in this handy free PDF.

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June 15, 2019

Photos: How to adjust image perspective in iOS 13

What you need to know to adjust the perspective of images using the new iOS 13 tools Apple announced at WWDC 2019 on an iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. The guide.

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June 14, 2019

How to use external storage with iPadOS

Apple will finally deliver one of the most-requested iPad and iPhone features with external storage device support with iOS 13 and iPadOS – what does this mean and how do we use it?

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June 13, 2019

How to change AirDrop name on iPhone, iPad (& Mac)

How to give Macs, iPads or iPhones specific names to make them easier to find when you want to share items with them using AirDrop.

13 easy-to-miss iOS 13 improvements you’ll want to use June 25, 2019
Millions are exploring the iOS 13 public beta now that it is available. As they do, they should take a look at these easy-to-miss features in Apple's new iPhone OS.The hidden mouse You can use a Bluetooth mouse with an iPad – to some extent – but Apple doesn’t make the feature particularly easy to find. […]
A first look at macOS Catalina (public beta now available) June 24, 2019
Apple officially opened up its Public Beta Program today for its newest deskop OS.So I thought it might be useful to share some first impressions of macOS Catalina. I’ve spent a little time with it since its introduction at WWDC. You can try macOS Catalina for yourself Mac users who want to test the beta themselves can sign-up to […]
How ‘Find My’ Mac works in macOS Catalina and iOS 13 June 21, 2019
Apple is changing how its Find My Mac tool works in macOS Catalina and iOS – it will now use Bluetooth and should find your Mac even when it is asleep.How does ‘Find My’ Mac work? Apple is combining two apps – Find My Friends and Find My iPhone into a new ‘Find My’ app.The […]
Macs in the enterprise: 6 stats every IT purchaser needs June 20, 2019
CIOs across the planet spend a lot of time wishing for unicorns.“If only there were a technology solution that could reduce costs and boost productivity,” they cry to the great executive bonus gods sitting high in their capitalist sky.Get a Mac Times have changed since Apple’s hugely popular Get a Mac ads encouraged so many […]
Don't consider Apple Watch an enterprise product? Think again June 19, 2019
Do you think Apple Watch is a great fitness tracker, but not really an enterprise product?I’d like to prove you wrong I’ve been saying for years that Apple would need to ensure Apple Watch could exist independently of the iPhone.There were several challenges to achieving this.One was the need to find a modem sufficiently low-powered […]
WWDC: Has Apple closed the door on non-Mac App Store apps? June 17, 2019
Ever since Apple introduced the Mac App Store developers have warned it plans to close off its platform, so news the company will insist on App Notarization in macOS Catalina set those critics off again. The thing is, it’s a little more complicated.What is Apple doing? Yes, Apple is making it a little more difficult […]
12+ amazing ways iOS 13 transforms travel and tourism June 14, 2019
From travel tickets to Airbnb, the $8 trillion travel industry is already a digital industry, and Apple’s iOS 13 will accelerate its transformation.How iOS 13 changes the travel industry If all you do is watch the WWDC 2019 keynote and State of the Union address you’ll get an inkling of how Apple’s new technologies may […]
WWDC: Apple’s iOS 13 NFC improvements are good for business June 13, 2019
Apple will make near field communication (NFC) much more useful in iPhones running iOS 13, and these enhancements will impact the retail, medical, government, and security industries.What is Apple changing? Apple already uses NFC to support Apple Pay and the Apple Pay Express Transit system, which is rolling out at this time.While it has incrementally […]
Microsoft’s App Store now offers Apple’s iCloud for Windows June 12, 2019
Apple has published an all-new version of its iCloud app for Windows users and the software is available for download from Microsoft’s App Store.What is Apple’s iCloud? iCloud is an essential component across Apple’s universe.You use it to share iCloud Drive files, sync contacts, devices and other personal data, to access a range of Apple’s […]
WWDC: 16+ ways Apple improved iPad productivity June 11, 2019
Apple also introduced numerous productivity enhancements that will make iPads even better laptop replacements, which ones make the the biggest difference to enterprise productivity>What happened at WWDC? Developers and Apple users will be most interested in two major iPad-related announcements at WWDC: Catalyst and iPad OS.Catalyst is Apple’s name for the huge-big-massive set of iOS APIs […]