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  • Why Did My iPhone Alarm Stop Automatically & Turn Itself Off?

    Mon 12:36pm By Jamie Cuevas
    If you use your iPhone as an alarm clock, as many iPhone owners do, you may have discovered that if the iPhone alarm is sounding and ringing continuously on it’s own, eventually the iPhone alarm turns itself off automatically. While this may be confusing if…
  • Use an iPad as an HDMI Display with Orion & a USB-C Capture Card

    Sun 12:40pm By Jamie Cuevas
    You can turn your iPad into a portable HDMI display with the help of a neat app named Orion, plus a USB-C Capture Card. How this works is really straight forward; you connect the USB-C Capture Card dongle to the iPad Pro USB-C port, then you connect your…
  • What is fileproviderd on Mac & Why Does it Use High CPU?

    Sat 12:29pm By Jamie Cuevas
    A process named fileproviderd may be discovered by some Mac users, usually seen in Activity Monitor when someone has discovered that their Mac feels like it’s running slower than usual. There, fileproviverd may be using high amounts of CPU, and by using…
  • How to Find Universal Control Settings on MacOS Sonoma & Ventura?

    Fri 12:35pm By Jamie Cuevas
    Universal Control is one of the most useful features available for Mac users who have multiple Macs and iPads that they’d like to control with a single mouse and keyboard, it works really well and offers a great experience once it’s setup and working. But,…
  • Use the Terminal cheat Tool to Generate CheatSheets for Commands

    Thu 12:26pm By Paul Horowitz
    While there are some command line wizards out there who never need to look at references, search manual pages, defer to command lists, LLM queries, or web searches, the rest of us mere mortal commands line users can be helped by a really great tool called…
  • USB Hub & External Monitors Not Working After MacOS Sonoma 14.4 Update for Some Mac Users

    Wed 7:13pm By Jamie Cuevas
    Some Mac users are discovering that USB-C hubs and external monitors are no longer working with their Mac after updating to macOS Sonoma 14.4. This issue can apparently impact anything connected to the USB Hub as well, leaving the USB hub devices undetected by…
  • Compare Loans Easily on iPhone, Mac, iPad, with Numbers App

    Wed 12:26pm By Jamie Cuevas
    If you’re shopping for a loan, let’s say for buying a car, you’ll undoubtedly have a few loan options. Comparing loans can be intimidating and daunting, and it’s hard to know which option is right for you, or which loan may make the most sense for your…
  • 6 Helpful Mac Keyboard Shortcut Tips

    Mar 12, 2024, 12:34 pm By Ali Khan
    If you are a Mac user, you might be interested in some specific keyboard shortcuts tricks that can make your MacOS computing experience more efficient and maybe even be more productive too. Here are six useful Mac keyboard shortcut tips that will improve most…
  • 2 Easy Ways to Compress Images on Mac

    Mar 11, 2024, 12:09 pm By Paul Horowitz
    Compressing images can be a necessary task for many Mac users, whether they’re getting ready to post an image to the web, share a photo through email or messages, or they’re simply trying to compress and reduce the file size of an image for any other…
  • Fix WeatherWidget Using Heavy CPU & Slowing a Mac

    Mar 10, 2024, 12:16 pm By Jamie Cuevas
    WeatherWidget is a process you may encounter on a Mac when looking through Activity Monitor or a system stats app, a task that many advanced Mac users find themselves doing if they notice their Mac performance is slowing down. The reason, of course, is that…
  • How to Remove “Promote with Blaze” from WordPress

    Mar 9, 2024, 11:49 am By Ali Khan
    WordPress is fantastic blogging software and an excellent content management system that is prolific on the web (and used by us for this site!), and Jetpack is a great set of tools offered by Automattic to further improve the WordPress experience. But the…
  • MacOS Ventura 13.6.5 & macOS Monterey 12.7.4 Updates Available

    Mar 8, 2024, 6:07 pm By Paul Horowitz
    Apple has released macOS Ventura 13.6.5 and macOS Monterey 12.7.4 to Mac users who continue to run the Ventura and Monterey operating systems, and who are not interested or able to run the freshly released MacOS Sonoma 14.4 update. Additionally, Safari 17.4 is…
  • Setting the Default Web Browser from Command Line on Mac

    Mar 8, 2024, 11:11 am By Paul Horowitz
    Many advanced Mac users spend a lot of time working from the command line with the Terminal application. The command line offers ways to interact with various settings in MacOS through defaults commands and other tricks, so it’s a reasonable question to…
  • MacOS Sonoma 14.4 Update Released with New Emoji & Bug Fixes

    Mar 7, 2024, 2:07 pm By Paul Horowitz
    MacOS Sonoma 14.4 update has been released by Apple for Mac users running the Sonoma operating system. The macOS Sonoma 14.4 update includes cutting edge new Emoji icons like a mushroom, lime, phoenix, broken chain, and shaking heads, along with new versions…
  • How to Lock Your Apple Watch Screen to Prevent Accidental Touch

    Mar 6, 2024, 11:23 am By Jamie Cuevas
    If you are working out with Apple Watch, or wearing gloves of any kind with Apple Watch that may cover your wrist or rub against the device, it’s a good idea to lock the screen of your Apple Watch to prevent accidental input and touches. While the Apple…