by Terry McAdams | Dec 14, 2023 | Apple Watch, How-To, iPhone, productivity
One of the prominent new features in iOS 17.1 and watchOS 10.1 is NameDrop, which makes it easy to exchange contact information with someone merely by putting your iPhone or Apple Watch next to theirs. When you do that, you can share your contact card and receive...
by Terry McAdams | Nov 28, 2023 | Control Center, keyboard shortcut, Mac, productivity, Tip
With macOS 13 Ventura, Apple brought Control Center from iOS to the Mac, providing a unified interface for features that users need to turn on and off regularly or that receive frequent adjustments, like screen brightness and audio volume. Clicking the Control Center...
by Terry McAdams | Nov 7, 2023 | productivity, Tip, watchOS
Apple recently released watchOS 10.1, with support for the much-ballyhooed double-tap gesture that selects the primary action in many apps without requiring that you touch the screen! It’s available only on the new Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2, where...
by Terry McAdams | Sep 19, 2023 | Mac, productivity, Tip
In macOS 13 Ventura, Apple replaced the creaky System Preferences with System Settings, which uses a more iOS-like interface. Many people find System Settings overwhelming, partly because they had memorized where to look in System Preferences (but System Settings has...
by Terry McAdams | Sep 13, 2023 | Mac, productivity, Tip
Apple’s Preview is a surprisingly capable graphics editor for making quick changes to screenshots and other illustrations, but it lacks a built-in way to delete content while leaving the background. Here’s the workaround—select a rectangle of the background color,...
by Terry McAdams | Aug 3, 2023 | iPhone, Mac, productivity
Although Web browsers have added productivity features over the years, most have not been overhauled to support modern usage patterns. We have bulging bookmarks bars, tabs by the trillions, and inefficient habits like using searches to load even regularly used...
