by Terry McAdams | Aug 7, 2026 | How-To, iPad, iPhone, Mac, productivity, Safari
Reading articles on the Web has become fraught with distraction. Ads are terrible, of course, but publications also inundate you with navigation links, pop-ups encouraging you to subscribe, popular article lists, and more. Even worse is when an article requires...
by Terry McAdams | May 1, 2026 | iPad, Mac, productivity, Safari, Tip
Safari’s compact tab bar option, which saves vertical space by placing the address bar in the current tab, went missing in the initial releases of macOS 26 Tahoe and iPadOS 26. Only Apple knows why this helpful option disappeared (Liquid Glass?), but as of macOS 26.4...
by Terry McAdams | Mar 6, 2026 | Mac, Safari, Tip, troubleshooting
When a Web browser has many tabs open, it can be hard to find the one playing audio if you need to silence it. Worse, when a browser relaunches, it can be tough to identify and silence all the tabs that have automatically started playing audio. Happily, all browsers...
by Terry McAdams | Oct 3, 2025 | Control Center, Safari, Spotlight
macOS 26 Tahoe is a larger visual leap than any recent upgrade. Although we don’t yet recommend that everyone upgrade, we want to show you some of the user interface changes that will impact your everyday experience of using the Mac. Liquid Glass Changes Many of these...
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...
by Terry McAdams | Feb 6, 2024 | How-To, iPad, iPhone, Mac, productivity, Safari
We’re all accustomed to searching the Web generally in Safari by typing in the search field and pressing Return or tapping Go. Most of us are also familiar with the search suggestions that Safari shows below the search field as we type. But did you know that Safari...
