The Mac’s desktop dock—you know, the strip of apps sitting at the bottom of your Mac’s screen—is one of those features that’s only handy…oh, about ten percent of the time. For example, when I need to jump to my Mail app or launch iTunes,...
Not all that long ago, the only way to sign a PDF on iPhone or iPad was to open it in a third-party PDF app. With the arrival of iOS 9, though, you can put your John Hancock directly on a PDF attached to any Mail message. Even better, you trace arrows and circles on...
Nope, there’s not much you can do to stop iMessage spammers from bombarding you with random messages about discount Ray-Bans. Luckily, iOS boasts a feature that can stop iMessage junk from filling your Messages inbox. Once you turn on the “Unknown...
Until very recently, the easy-on-the-eyes Safari reader mode for iPhone and iPad—you know, the feature that strips all the clutter from articles on the web—was painfully basic. Once you turned on Safari reader mode (which you can do by tapping the three-line button on...
If you’ve ever tried to select text by grabbing those itty-bitty blue handles while selected text on your iPad, you’ll know how delicate—and sometimes infuriating—the process can be. The bad news is that selecting words, sentences or paragraphs in a web...
One of the best reasons to install the new iOS 9 update onto your iPhone or iPad isn’t so much because it adds some nifty new feature, but because it finally lets you delete an older, incredibly annoying one – the newsstand app. Newsstand elbowed its way...
How do you right-click on a Mac when your Mac’s trackpad doesn’t have a right-click button? That’s a common question, and luckily there’s an easy answer—four of them, in fact. For starters, you can… Method No. 1: Here’s the classic...
On most Mac keyboards, the function keys—you know, those keys along the top of the keyboard marked “F1,” “F2,” “F3,” and so on—don’t get the luxury of having an entire key to themselves. Indeed, the function keys often have to share their keys with volume controls,...
Want to forward an iMessage to a friend, or find out the exact time you received a specific text message? No problem. Also: how to silence a group conversation that just won’t stop. Forward an iMessage or text message So, you just got a text message or iMessage...
At first, it was funny. A PR rep had accidentally sent out a press release with the entire mailing list—and we’re talking hundreds of recipients, including me—CC’d rather than BCC’d, meaning that the email addresses of everyone on the list were there...
