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 for the real scoop on what’s going on behind the scenes, Option-click the Wi-Fi menu. In addition to several commands to run diagnostics, the...

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Break the iPad’s Virtual Keyboard in Half for Thumb Typing

The iPad’s onscreen keyboard is an awkward size—too small for adults to type on like a regular keyboard in landscape mode, but too large to thumb-type on like an iPhone in portrait mode unless you have large hands like a pro basketball player. If you fall into the thumb-typing camp, there’s a hidden...

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Three Clipboard Utilities to Enhance Copy & Paste

Perhaps the greatest unheralded innovation of the computer age is Copy & Paste. You may not think about the humble clipboard much, but Copy & Paste has saved you incalculable amounts of effort by enabling you to copy something you’ve done before to the clipboard, paste it into another document...

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Prepare for the Worst with an iPhone Medical ID

No one expects to be in an accident, but if you are, and if you end up in a state where you can’t speak with the emergency responders, wouldn’t you like your iPhone to help? Once you enter your medical data and emergency contact info into Apple’s Health app, anyone can use your iPhone to learn about...

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Are You Still Using POP for Email? Switch to IMAP!

When you read an email message on your iPhone and delete it, do you have to trash it again when you check mail on your Mac? Or is your email kept in sync such that if you delete a message on one system, it never even appears on the other? If you fall into the first camp, your Internet service provider...

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11 Ways to Ensure Your iPhone Battery Life Goes to 11

It’s inevitable. At some point, you’ll need your iPhone, but its battery will be dead. And as an iPhone ages, its battery becomes weaker, to the point where it may have trouble making it through a typical day of use. Charging the iPhone during the day may stave this off, and you could lug around...

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Beware, 2 New Trojan Malwares and 1 sophisticated phishing attack currently circulating

This week has brought some nasty malware Trojans and a very sophisticated phishing attack to the Mac platform. Here are the details you need to know.  Lets break these down. OSX/Dok The Good: Apple has revoked the developer certificate that allowed this Trojan to get past...

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Erase 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 personal information on the device. Luckily, Apple makes it easy to reset your idevice to factory defaults.  Go to Settings > General >...

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