by Terry McAdams | Mar 12, 2025 | App Store, Apple ID, iPad, iPhone, iTunes Store, Mac
Ever since Apple launched the iTunes Store in 2003 with online accounts known as Apple IDs—now referred to as Apple Accounts—many users have ended up with multiple accounts. This situation arose partly because the early Apple IDs were tied to accounts users created...
by Terry McAdams | Mar 10, 2025 | iPad, iPhone, keyboard shortcut, Mac, productivity, Tip
Apple provides a handy ecosystem-wide feature that replaces a typed abbreviation—say “eml”—with text you specify, like your email address. (Seriously, copy that one so you don’t have to type your email address repeatedly.) These automatic text replacements sync via...
by Terry McAdams | Mar 5, 2025 | Control Center, Mac, menu bar, Tip
With severe weather season about to get underway, this is a great feature to utilize, especially here in North Texas and Southern Oklahoma. In macOS 15.2 Sequoia, Apple added the option to display the current weather conditions in the menu bar but hid the switch deep...
by Terry McAdams | Feb 13, 2025 | How-To, iPhone, Mac, productivity
One of the flashiest features of macOS 15 Sequoia and iOS 18 is iPhone Mirroring, which allows you to use your iPhone in a window on your Mac. You might think, “But I can just pull my iPhone out of my pocket if I need to use it!” While that may be true, not everyone...
by Terry McAdams | Feb 2, 2025 | Mac, Tip, troubleshooting
By default, Microsoft Office apps—Word, Excel, and PowerPoint—try to save files on Microsoft OneDrive as a way of promoting the company’s cloud storage. If that’s undesirable, you can easily keep your files locally on your Mac or in a different cloud storage location....
by Terry McAdams | Jan 31, 2025 | iPad, iPhone, Mac, productivity, Safari
Alongside this year’s crop of operating systems comes Safari 18, the latest version of Apple’s Web browser. Most of what you do in Safari depends on the websites you use, of course, but Apple has added a handful of features aimed at improving your overall browsing...
