In the old days, when you wanted to play audio on a stereo or connect your Mac to a TV, you needed a cable. The details varied over time...

If you have an old iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch that you want to sell or give away, you don’t want to leave any of your apps, data, or...

Do Web sites that auto-play ads or videos drive you mad? Especially when you reopen Safari and several of them in remembered tabs start...

By default, the Wi-Fi menu on your Mac’s menu bar provides a list of available Wi-Fi networks and a few other commands. Useful stuff, but...

You’re on a trip, accompanied by your trusty iPhone and MacBook Air. Suddenly there’s an emergency at work, and you need to get online...

If you have lots of apps on your iPhone or iPad, rearranging their icons on your home screens by dragging from screen to screen can be...

We understand. That MacBook Pro you bought a few years back doesn’t seem like it should need replacing, but performance has started to...

With all the advances in computing and communications, it’s amazing that—after nearly 150 years!—we still use the keyboard layout from...

There are oodles of ways to launch Mac apps. You can double-click an app in the Applications folder, click an app icon in the Dock,...

Passwords. Can’t live without ‘em, can’t remember more than a few. We’re all in the same boat, with numerous online accounts protected by...

By now you’ve probably seen one of those odd-looking white squares with a bunch of smaller square dots that make up a random pattern...

You know that you can move the insertion point in text using your Mac’s arrow keys. But what you may not know is that the Mac offers...

If you regularly lose your pointer on big-screen Mac, Apple has added a feature you’ll like starting in OS X 10.11 El Capitan. Shake the...

If you use AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, or Sprint in the United States with an iPhone 6 or newer model, you can turn on a feature starting in...

There’s nothing worse than your iPhone running out of juice at an inopportune time. Starting in iOS 9, there’s a Low Power Mode that’s...

Web conferencing like WebEx or GoToMeeting can be expensive.  Beyond that I find that they can be cumbersome as well to setup and...

Set up Apple Pay on your iPhone or iPad Add a card to your iPhone or iPad: On your iPhone, open Wallet. On your iPad, go to Settings >...