If you ever have a hardware problem with one of your Apple products, be sure to check Apple’s list of special repair programs. You can find it at the bottom of the page support.apple.com.
Apple introduced a new MacBook Air today with faster processors, more storage, a new keyboard and a lower introductory price. Two new iPad Pro models boost specs, and also introduce a new camera array. A new Magic Keyboard for the iPad Pro includes a trackpad and also lifts the iPad up.
You can choose whether or not to see filename extensions in the Finder on your Mac. But even if you choose to not see them, some filename will still show extensions and others will not. What makes these files different and how do you control them?
There is a lot of bad advice out there when it comes to stopping junk email. People will tell you time-consuming ways to get marginally less spam. But there is really only one method that will solve the problem of getting too much spam. And oddly, few tech advisors talk about it.
My friend Jay, who many of you may remember from past appearances with MacMost, just posted a video review of one of those external eGPUs for Mac. This is one of the ones Apple sells. You can use it as a way to "dock" a MacBook to a desktop screen and setup, or as a way to super-power a Mac mini.
This is a free and unbelievably robust tool for creating all sorts of charts and diagrams. Check it out at draw.io (or <a href="https://www.diagrams.net" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.diagrams.net</a>).
Your Mac, iPhone or iPad can be used as a way to video chat with others while you are stuck at home away from friends, family, work or school. Technology can help with social distancing. FaceTime is great for Apple-to-Apple communication. Skype and Facebook Messenger can be used for cross-platform communication or with those who are more comfortable with those services.
You can use pretty much any USB flash drive with your Mac. But be sure to buy one with the right connection type, either USB-A or USB-C, or get one that has both. Most drives are preformatted for Windows, so you probably want to reformat it for your Mac. You can add and remove files from a USB flash drive using the Finder. Be sure to eject the drive first before phsyically disconnecting it.
You can see the dimensions of images, the length of videos and the number of items in folders on the Desktop by changing one setting. Click on the Desktop background to select the Desktop. Then go to View, Show View Options and check Show Item Info.
Perhaps the most useful third-party tool you can get for your Mac is a clipboard manager. These will let you go beyond the single copy and paste clipboard and recall items you previous copied.
So you may have heard about this app you can install that gives your excess CPU power to scientists to help them do disease research. I don't know much about it, but I decided to install it and screen record it so you can see screen record trying it out so you can see what it is about. The site is: <a href="https://foldingathome.org" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://foldingathome.org</a> Let me know if you have tried this too, or what you think about apps like this.
You can get stock prices in Numnbers on your Mac, but they are only updated daily. But by using Google Sheets you can get live stock prices. These can be used right there, or copied and pasted into a Numbers document.
There are many unusual ways to use the features in iMovie to create visual effects and filters that you may not think are possible. Take a look at 10 ideas using titles, transistions, overlays and other techniques.
Here's a Numbers spreadsheet I created to make sample names and addresses. I needed some sample for a future tutorial, so instead of coming up with fake names I built this tool to make up as many as I need.
