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  • Fixing Apple Watch False Touch & Ghost Touch Issues

    Fri 12:18pm By Jamie Cuevas
    Some Apple Watch users have experienced a situation where their Apple Watch seems to respond to phantom touches, which some users have come to call ghost touches. These false touches can happen in a variety of different situations, from the Apple Watch simply…
  • How to Connect AirPods to a Smart TV

    Thu 1:41pm By Jamie Cuevas
    AirPods are extremely popular wireless earbuds, and while most people associate them with the Apple ecosystem, they can be used outside of that too. One common situation that appeals to many people is the idea of connecting AirPods to a smart TV, allowing for…
  • Beta 3 of iOS 17.5, macOS Sonoma 14.5, iPadOS 17.5, Available for Testing

    Wed 10:26pm By Paul Horowitz
    Apple has issued the third beta versions of iOS 17.5, macOS Sonoma 14.5, iPadOS 17.5, watchOS 10.5, visionOS 1.2, and tvOS 17.5, to all users participating in the beta testing programs for Apple system software. The new beta builds are available to both…
  • How to Customize the Finder Sidebar on Mac

    Wed 4:39pm By Hamlin Rozario
    Do you want to change the way the sidebar looks on your Mac when you open a new Finder window? This is done by customizing the Finder Preferences according to your liking. Apple offers several ways to customize the Finder sidebar on macOS computers. Finder is…
  • How to Uninstall Apps on MacOS Sonoma & Ventura via System Settings

    Tue 1:35pm By Paul Horowitz
    Uninstalling and removing apps is a necessary task on any computer, and the Mac is no exception. One of the benefits of MacOS is that it makes uninstalling applications pretty easy, and there are several ways to go about participating in the removal of apps…
  • Apple Event Set for May 7, New iPads Expected

    Tue 1:26pm By Jamie Cuevas
    Apple has set an online event for 7:00AM PST on Tuesday, May 7, for the early birds on the west coast, or mid-morning east coast folks. While Apple offers only a vague hint of what’s to come with the event artwork, the rumor mill speculates that updated iPad…
  • How to Mute a Call on Apple Watch

    Mon 12:26pm By Jamie Cuevas
    Since the Apple Watch is tied to your iPhone, you’ve likely noticed that phone calls can be made or answered on your wrist. While you might know how to answer or reject phone calls on the Apple Watch, did you know that you can silence or mute a call to your…
  • Make a Website Your Mac Wallpaper with Plash

    Apr 20, 2024, 12:36 pm By Jamie Cuevas
    A unique third party Mac app allows you to turn any web page, including YouTube videos and links to animated GIFs, into your Mac desktop wallpaper. Sound like fun? Well it definitely is, and depending on how creative you want to be, you can accomplish some…
  • How to Use the Latest GPT 4 & DALL-E 3 Free on iPhone & iPad with Copilot

    Apr 19, 2024, 12:22 pm By Jamie Cuevas
    GPT 4 is an extremely advanced large language model with immense AI capabilities, and DALL-E 3 is a wildly impressive AI image generator that creates pictures from text descriptions. Both of these tools are incredibly powerful and impressive, and while you can…
  • Beta 2 of iOS 17.5, iPadOS 17.5, macOS Sonoma 14.5, Available for Testing

    Apr 18, 2024, 10:21 pm By Paul Horowitz
    The second beta versions of iOS 17.5, iPadOS 17.5, MacOS Sonoma 14.5, tvOS 17.5, watchOS 10.5, and visionOS 1.2, have been made available by Apple to participants in the beta testing programs for Apple system software. Both developer and public beta testers…
  • 15 Mail Keyboard Shortcuts for Mac

    Apr 18, 2024, 12:32 pm By Hamlin Rozario
    One way that you can navigate apps quicker and more efficiently is by using, learning, and mastering keyboard shortcuts, and Mail for Mac is no different. You can speed up your routine tasks in Mail app (and elsewhere) with the help of keyboard shortcuts.…
  • How to Use Hover Text on Mac to Magnify On-Screen Text

    Apr 17, 2024, 1:29 pm By Hamlin Rozario
    Hover Text is an interesting macOS accessibility feature that magnifies the text that’s displayed on your screen. This can be any regular text, a menu item, or a button. As the name suggests, when you hover your mouse cursor over the text, macOS will magnify…
  • How to Bulk Image Edit on iPhone & iPad wth Copy & Paste Edits to Photos

    Apr 16, 2024, 12:12 pm By Paul Horowitz
    Bulk image editing can be a tedious task, but the Photos app for iPhone and iPad has a fantastic feature that makes editing a series of images a lot easier. Essentially how this works is that you make edits to one photo, and then you copy those edits, and…
  • How to Use Apple Watch as Viewfinder & Remote for iPhone Camera

    Apr 15, 2024, 12:21 pm By Hamlin Rozario
    Did you know that your Apple Watch can be used as a viewfinder and shutter button for the camera on your iPhone? Sure, some of you may already know this, but a lot of new Apple Watch users aren’t aware of this nifty feature that can come in handy while…
  • How to Hide the Sidebar in Microsoft Edge

    Apr 14, 2024, 12:32 pm By Jamie Cuevas
    Microsoft Edge is a surprisingly good web browser with some unique capabilities, like direct and easy GPT 4 access, and it has been a fun browser to experiment with as my new default. But, like many Microsoft software products, the appearance can be a little…