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Oct. 26, 2020

How to manage the Bluetooth headphone connection dance among devices

Bluetooth is a miraculous technology for audio when it works perfectly, letting you stream crisp, high-quality sound from a variety of devices you own. But most Bluetooth headphones have a limitation: they can pair to multiple devices—anywhere from…

Oct. 23, 2020

Macworld

How to share a password via AirDrop from iOS 14, iPadOS 14, or macOS

AirDrop lets you send lots of kinds of data to people right around you who are receptive to it, but one of the less-known elements is a password. Because AirDrop is both short range and encrypted between devices, it’s a secure way to transfer a…

Oct. 22, 2020

Macworld

Your scanner won’t work with Image Capture? Disable a network setting on your all-in-one

Many things in life are inexplicable, and operating systems are no exception. Search for logic and a pattern as much as you like, and you may never find one. That was my reaction to discovering the solution to a problem with Image Capture on the Mac,…

Oct. 21, 2020

Macworld

How to prepare your digital assets in case of death

Mac 911 has received a sadly unsurprising number of emails this year from people whose loved ones have passed away, and who are left with computers, mobile devices, and cloud accounts that contain memories, legal documents, and much more. I have…

Oct. 20, 2020

Macworld

How to recover iPhone and iPad data from a backup without the device’s passcode

Apple strongly protects data stored on an iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Apple Watch, and macOS (with FileVault enabled or a T2 Security Chip, or both). However, there’s an exception for mobile devices that can be useful in extremis, such as if you’ve…

Oct. 19, 2020

Macworld

How to toggle location precision for apps in iOS 14 and iPadOS 14

A modern smartphone uses navigational satellites—sometimes drawing from multiple orbital systems—as well as cellular towers, Bluetooth hints, and Wi-Fi router locations to produce an awfully precise location. My family’s iPhones are often tracked not…

Oct. 15, 2020

Macworld

How to cope with PowerPoint and Keynote limitations with videoconferencing software

Presentation software and videoconferencing tools mix like oil and water. That's a particularly unfortunate thing when tens of millions of teachers are forced to use PowerPoint or Keynote to remotely educate kids daily. These apps weren’t designed…

Oct. 14, 2020

Macworld

Caller ID verification could be coming to the iPhone soon

Most people are surprised that Caller ID isn’t verified in any real fashion. With the appropriate software or third-party service, a spammer, scammer, phisher, or abuser can set Caller ID to nearly any number that will then appear on your phone. Or,…

Oct. 13, 2020

Macworld

Troubleshooting tips for using an old iMac as an external display for a Thunderbolt 3 Mac

Because of the decreasing value of older computers and sometimes children leaving the nest and their old computers behind, you could wind up with an older iMac that no longer meets your day-to-day needs, but which you could transform into a…

Oct. 9, 2020

Macworld

Apple's pay services explained and how to find and change payment methods

As part of its digital services, Apple offer different payment methods that you can use at its own store as well as other online retailers and third-party walk-in shops. It can be difficult to sort out what method applies where. Here’s the rundown to…

Oct. 9, 2020

Macworld

OWC Thunderbolt 3 mini Dock review: Affordable dock offers connectivity for two 4K external displays

Docks abound for USB-C connectors, whether for USB-only devices or for those—like all Macs released in the last few years—that sport the very high-speed Thunderbolt 3. The Other World Computing Thunderbolt 3 mini Dock offers the lowest price so far…

Oct. 8, 2020

Macworld

How to format a thumb drive for both Mac and Windows

For those of us who rarely transfer files physically across devices, file-format capability may be a distant memory. It used to occupy a lot of attention. But it still crops up whenever you’re trying to put files on a USB thumb drive to hand off to…

Oct. 7, 2020

Macworld

Can’t print to an office printer? You may need to enter an access code in macOS

It may seem outdated, but some businesses with centralized high-end photocopying and binding systems track output with a code from each department or user. While this has been common for decades, the problem crops up for Mac users unfamiliar with the…

Oct. 6, 2020

Macworld

How to fix an old iPhoto problem with location names

iPhoto’s time in the sun came and went a long time ago, and macOS 10.15 Catalina put the nails in its coffin. (See my column from last October on your options for migration or continuing to use iPhoto.) However, there’s a reason to dredge up the past…

Oct. 2, 2020

Medium

Flong time, no see

You’ve heard of letterpress printing. You know about individual pieces of metal type stacked side by side by typesetters to make a line of type. Maybe you’ve even seen a film on YouTube of hot-metal composition, using Linotype or Monotype machines,…

Oct. 2, 2020

Tidbits

Function101 Offers an Apple TV Remote Replacement with Delightful Buttons

I have never liked the slippery Siri Remote that Apple shipped with the fourth-generation Apple TV HD in 2015 and continues to offer as the default option for the Apple TV HD and Apple TV 4K. But only recently did I spot a replacement that seemed…

Sep. 30, 2020

Macworld

How to merge two macOS accounts into one

If you have two macOS accounts on a single machine and want to merge them into one, macOS doesn’t offer a simple way to carry this out, but it’s nevertheless not very difficult. While you can mess around with file and folder permissions, my…

Sep. 29, 2020

Macworld

Apple Maps lists your location incorrectly? You can report it

No map is perfect; all are approximations. But it’s galling to business owners when a modern digital map lists the wrong address, has incorrect business hours, or even says the business is closed when it’s still open—a tremendous concern right now…

Sep. 24, 2020

Macworld

How to print from Photos without cropping your images

You can tell when Apple abandons its efforts in some of its apps, because options stagnate even when they’re confusing or don’t meet people’s needs. Photos for macOS is full of dead ends and half-working pieces, even if the overall app generally…

Sep. 23, 2020

Macworld

Got a Mac with a SD Card slot? Don’t rely on it as a storage upgrade

Spinning disks are slow and solid-state drives (SSDs) used to cost a digital arm and a leg. That led many people to stick with hard drives or purchase Macs with low-capacity SSDs—like 250 GB or 500 GB—because the next increment up added many hundreds…