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1Password 7 Launches Today, and Here's How to Download It

Andrew Orr · 2:46 PM EDT, May 22nd, 2018 · 4 Comments

Here are the new features available as well as instructions on upgrading.

How to See Where Apple Tracks You on Your iPhone and iPad

Jeff Gamet · 11:59 AM EDT, May 18th, 2018 · 3 Comments

Your iPhone and iPad use Location Services to track places you go that it deems important to you. That’s either really cool, or super creepy, depending on your point of view. Here’s how to see the significant locations where your iPhone and iPad have tracked you.

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How to Use Parallels Desktop to Run macOS High Sierra as a Virtual Machine

John Martellaro · 6:16 PM EDT, May 17th, 2018 · 4 Comments

A virtual machine environment on the Mac allows one to run a licensed copy of Windows or some popular distributions of Linux. John shows us how to also run macOS as a virtual machine guest OS inside macOS as a host.

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macOS: How to Access iCloud Drive in Terminal

Andrew Orr · 2:14 PM EDT, May 16th, 2018 · Add Comment

If you prefer the Terminal over the GUI, or just want a different way to create and move files and folders, this is the tip for you.

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Cracking the Code: How to Improve Apple Music Recommendations

Andrew Orr · 2:16 PM EDT, May 15th, 2018 · 1 Comment

Every Friday the For You section is updated with what the algorithms think you’ll like. For a while Andrew Orr didn’t like his recommendations. But he thinks he discovered a way to improve Apple Music.

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How to Protect Yourself from the Efail Encrypted Email Security Flaw

Jeff Gamet · 12:04 PM EDT, May 14th, 2018 · Add Comment

If you’re using S/MIME, PGP, or GPG encryption for messages in Apple’s Mail app or other email client apps, you could be susceptible to what’s being called Efail. You can protect your messages until app updates addressing the flaw are released, and it’s easy to do.

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Here's Everything You Need to Know About Carbon Copy Cloner APFS Snapshots

John Martellaro · 5:09 PM EDT, May 9th, 2018 · Add Comment

Bombich Software released version 5.1 of Carbon Copy Cloner on April 24 with snapshot support. There’s a lot to know about this major upgrade, and so some basic Q&A seems in order. Read this first.