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Glasses As Health Tracker, TMO Tips – TMO Daily Observations 2019-05-03

Kelly Guimont · 1:57 PM EDT, May 3rd, 2019 · Add Comment

Andrew Orr and Charlotte Henry join host Kelly Guimont to talk about Apple making glasses as health trackers and share some tips and tricks.

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5 iOS 12 Features You May Have Forgotten About

Andrew Orr · 2:31 PM EST, Jan 8th, 2019 · Add Comment

We’ve put together a list of five iOS 12 features you may have forgotten about. A lot forgotten features involve 3D Touch.

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macOS: How to Use Keyboard Shortcuts to Open Bookmarks in Safari

Melissa Holt · 12:54 PM EST, Jan 4th, 2019 · Add Comment

Today’s Quick Tip is about Safari on the Mac and how you can use and adjust keyboard shortcuts to get to the sites you love. So if The Mac Observer is your favorite place (of course it is, right?), you can jump right here!

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How to Change the Accent Color in macOS Mojave

Melissa Holt · 8:00 AM EST, Dec 17th, 2018 · Add Comment

Today’s Quick Tip is about a little feature of Mojave that’ll let you change the color scheme of buttons and menus, so if you want your Mac to be pink rather than blue, you totally can do that!

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How to Use One Mac as a Time Machine Destination for Another
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How to Use One Mac as a Time Machine Destination for Another

Melissa Holt · 7:00 AM EST, Dec 12th, 2018 · 4 Comments

Today’s Quick Tip is an interesting one (if we do say so ourselves). Did you know you can use one Mac in your house as a Time Machine destination for another? How very very odd. We’ll go over the oddness in its entirety in this article!

iOS: How to Find Your iPhone with Your AirPods
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iOS: How to Find Your iPhone with Your AirPods

Melissa Holt · 4:00 PM EST, Dec 7th, 2018 · 1 Comment

Got an Apple Watch? You can use it to ping a lost iPhone in your house. But did you know that you can do that with your AirPods, too, assuming they’re set up to do so? You can, and we’ve got the trick to it in today’s Quick Tip!

Numbers: How to Refer to Cells in Other Sheets
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Numbers: How to Refer to Cells in Other Sheets

Melissa Holt · 1:37 PM EST, Nov 30th, 2018 · 4 Comments

With Numbers, Apple’s spreadsheet program, you can have multiple sheets in a single document and use cells within each to calculate values in the others. It’s handy! Come on in and read about how.

macOS: How to Use Substitutions in Text
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macOS: How to Use Substitutions in Text

Melissa Holt · 7:00 AM EST, Nov 29th, 2018 · 4 Comments

Today’s Quick Tip focuses on a neat trick in Pages (and Mail and TextEdit!) that’ll let you change straight quotes to smart ones or hyphens to dashes in an existing document. If you like typography, this’ll be right up your alley!

How to Always Insert Attachments at the End in macOS Mail
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How to Always Insert Attachments at the End in macOS Mail

Melissa Holt · 8:00 AM EST, Nov 27th, 2018 · 3 Comments

Today’s Quick Tip is about Apple Mail and how it (somewhat frustratingly) handles attachments. If you don’t like them dropping into the middle of your messages, come read about how to push them to the end!

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macOS: How to Use Smart Categories in Numbers
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macOS: How to Use Smart Categories in Numbers

Melissa Holt · 3:19 PM EST, Nov 21st, 2018 · 1 Comment

In a recent update, Numbers gained the ability to sort by category, so if you want to break down your budget by transaction type, say, you can do that really easily. The details are all here in today’s Quick Tip!

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