by Terry McAdams | May 5, 2025 | Firefox, How-To, Mac, productivity
As more of our lives shift online, it becomes increasingly important to establish boundaries between different aspects of our digital activities. Many people maintain separate work and personal email addresses for this reason. But you don’t have to stop there. Modern...
by Terry McAdams | Apr 3, 2025 | Firefox, Mac, productivity, Tip
If you have Control- or right-clicked on text in a Web browser in the last year or two, you may have seen an oddly named command: Copy Link to Highlight. When you choose it, it puts a URL on your clipboard, not just to that page, as Copy Link Address would, but also...
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 7, 2025 | iCloud, iPhone, productivity, Tip
Apple has launched the new Apple Invites iPhone app for planning social events with friends and family. Apple Invites requires iOS 18 on the iPhone, and you can also use it at iCloud.com/invites on the Mac and iPad. Event creation is limited to iCloud+ subscribers...
by Terry McAdams | Mar 3, 2025 | productivity, Tip
In iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS 15 Sequoia, Apple removed a standard feature of the Calculator app that allowed users to press the = button multiple times to repeat the last mathematical operation. Following user complaints, the company reinstated this feature in iOS...
by Terry McAdams | Feb 26, 2025 | productivity, Tip
You can now work directly with PDFs received in the Mail app using a little-known feature in iOS 18 and iPadOS 18. Tap a PDF attachment in a message and use the Markup and Form Fill buttons at the bottom to access the PDF markup and filling tools. After modifying your...
