Normally, connecting your AirPods to your Mac should be pretty easy and straightforward. However, sometimes you could run into connection issues.
Malware Mouse Clicks Let Hackers Take Over macOS
MacOS gives you the option to Allow or Deny a program’s access to certain features. But what if malware clicked the Allow button itself?
macOS: Creating Templates in Pages and Word
Both Apple’s Pages program and Microsoft Word have a way to create and save a custom template, so if you need a letterhead for your business, for example, you can do that without having to use “Save As” every time (and without the risk of overwriting your original file). Today’s Quick Tip has all of the details!
macOS: Changing How Mail Saves Attachments
Apple’s Mail program has a nifty way of handling certain attachment types, so if your Mac’s storage is at a premium, you can change how this works to save space. We’ve got the details in today’s Quick Tip!
macOS: Show All of the Passwords for an AirPort Base Station
If you’re using a Time Capsule or an AirPort Express or Extreme, then you should know that there’s a way to pull together all of the passwords associated with one of those devices for easy safekeeping. Screenshot this and put it in your password manager or print it out and throw it in your safe, and you’ll have all of your network info secured!
How to Fix the "Date and Time" macOS High Sierra Bug
Over the last couple of weeks, Melissa Holt has come across a weird date and time bug that’s affecting users after updating to macOS High Sierra (or migrating to a new machine). In this Quick Tip, she’s got the details on how to squash this bug (and what you might look for if your problem persists).
Apple Releases macOS Mojave Public Beta 4
Mojave is Apple’s latest version of macOS and is expected to ship this fall.
This Designer is Re-Thinking the macOS Font Picker
Designer Sam William Smith wants to make the font picker easier to use when you have a lot of fonts installed.
How to Change a Person's Key Photo
If you’d like to change the representative image Photos uses for the people you’ve categorized, then how do you go about it? We’ve got all of the details—including a weird but important caveat—in today’s Quick Tip!
Apple Photo Printing Service Has Been Discontinued
The Apple photo printing service has been discontinued. Previously this was a service in the Photos app on macOS.
Redesigning the macOS Desktop Concept Experience
UI-UX designer Kévin Eugène created a macOS desktop concept experience. He calls it macOS Newton, but he doesn’t redesign apps, just the overall experience of the desktop. Like, not using windows for apps, but instead something called Flows. It opens apps into fullscreen mode like on iOS. Multiple apps can be summoned from a Flow Strip, a bar on top of the dock. Flows, like Shortcuts, are programmable. You can open up a Flow of multiple apps in a certain order with a click. All-in-all I think the concept is interesting, although I can’t see Apple ever wildly changing macOS like this.
How to Move Notes Between Accounts
If you’ve got notes synced through several different accounts (such as through both iCloud and Google), then you might want to organize everything and move it all into one account instead. In today’s Quick Tip, Melissa Holt’s going to tell us how to get messy notes all cleaned up!
Apple Releases Wi-Fi Update for Boot Camp 6.4.0, Can Be Updated Through Windows
Apple released Wi-Fi Update for Boot Camp 6.4.0 on Thursday, an update that patches two vulnerabilities for Mac users booted into Windows using Boot Camp.
macOS: Entering Fullscreen Mode With a Keyboard Shortcut
We’ve got another keyboard shortcut for you, and it lets you quickly enter fullscreen mode. Apps will take advantage of your Mac’s display.
macOS: Using the Shift Key to Extend Text Selections
Your Mac has an easy way to expand or contract a text selection—and no, it doesn’t involve going back and dragging within your text all over again! In today’s Quick Tip, we’ll tell you how to use this handy-dandy feature.
How Apple's Mac Could Start to Fail in the Marketplace
Those Mac users who are unfamiliar and uncomfortable with Windows aren’t like to jump ship. However, those who are bilingual in OSes may, in their need for better hardware, tell a different story.
How to Stop Constant iCloud Password Prompts on Older Macs and iPhones
If you’ve got an older Mac running Yosemite, say, you may be getting constant prompts to enter your iCloud password. If you know you’re typing it in correctly, what gives?! We’ll tell you one way you might be able to fix this annoying problem in today’s Quick Tip!
Apple Seeds macOS Mojave Developer Beta 2
Announced at WWDC for a fall release, Mojave brings iOS apps to the Mac for the first time, introduces Dark Mode, and more.
macOS: Use Command + Tab To Switch Mac Apps Faster
Mac Geek Gab listener David has a tip for us, and it involves using Command + Tab to switch Mac apps. But he uses it in a different way.
How to Make Quick English-Metric Conversions Using macOS Spotlight
I’ve got a great tip for anyone who ever needs to do a Metric conversion—it’s easy to do right from Spotlight on your Mac.
