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Reset iOS Devices Before Passing Them On
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...
Zvonimir Petric
Mar 1, 20171 min read


Mute Audio-playing Tabs in Safari
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...
Zvonimir Petric
Mar 1, 20171 min read


Get More Info from the Wi-Fi Menu
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...
Zvonimir Petric
Mar 1, 20171 min read


Use Your iPhone as a Personal Wi-Fi Hotspot for Your Mac or iPad
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...
Zvonimir Petric
Mar 1, 20172 min read


Rearrange iOS Home Screen Icons More Easily
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...
Zvonimir Petric
Mar 1, 20171 min read


Improve an Old Mac’s Performance with an SSD
We understand. That MacBook Pro you bought a few years back doesn’t seem like it should need replacing, but performance has started to...
Zvonimir Petric
Mar 1, 20172 min read


Speed Up Mac and iOS Typing with Text Expansion
With all the advances in computing and communications, it’s amazing that—after nearly 150 years!—we still use the keyboard layout from...
Zvonimir Petric
Feb 27, 20172 min read


Launch Apps from the Keyboard with Spotlight
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,...
Zvonimir Petric
Feb 15, 20172 min read


Improve Your Online Security with a Password Manager
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...
Zvonimir Petric
Feb 15, 20172 min read


What Are QR Codes and How Do You Use Them in iOS?
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...
Zvonimir Petric
Feb 15, 20172 min read


Mac Text Navigation Shortcuts You Must Know
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...
Zvonimir Petric
Feb 15, 20171 min read


Quickly Find the Lost Pointer on a Big Screen
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...
Zvonimir Petric
Feb 15, 20171 min read


Enable Wi-Fi Calling to Improve Call Quality
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...
Zvonimir Petric
Feb 15, 20171 min read


Extend iPhone Battery Life with Low Power Mode
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...
Zvonimir Petric
Feb 15, 20171 min read


Apple users need a lot less help than PC users, IBM finds
Source: Business Insider IBM has been allowing its employees to pick if they want a Mac or a Windows based computer. Over the summer...
Zvonimir Petric
Oct 16, 20151 min read
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