by Garret Cleversley | May 23, 2022 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, Article, ASMC, ASMC Archive, Ethernet, How-To, iOS, iPadOS, Mac, macOS, networking, Restricted Content, security, Wi-Fi
One of the best ways to keep malware from infecting your computers is to avoid visiting websites designed to do just that. No one intentionally visits loadmetogetinfected.com, but malware authors employ all sorts of tricks to lure unsuspecting users into viewing...
by Garret Cleversley | May 20, 2022 | App Store, Apple Pros, APros Archive, Article, ASMC, ASMC Archive, Explainer, iOS, iPadOS, M1, Mac, Restricted Content
Much has been written about the performance benefits of Apple’s M1 family of chips, but you may not have realized that M1-based Macs can also run many iPhone and iPad apps. It makes sense, given that the M1 chip grew out of the work Apple did for the A-series...
by Garret Cleversley | May 18, 2022 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, Article, ASMC, ASMC Archive, clipboard, Mac, productivity, Restricted Content, Solution
For our money, perhaps the most unheralded innovation of the computer age is Copy and Paste. No one thinks about the clipboard—that virtual shelf where copied text and images sit—because it just works. We all use Command-C to copy something and Command-V to paste it...
by Garret Cleversley | May 16, 2022 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, Article, ASMC, ASMC Archive, Explainer, hardware, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, Mac, repair, Restricted Content
Macs—and Apple products in general—tend to last a long time. It’s not unusual to see someone happily using an 8-year-old MacBook Pro. As much as it’s environmentally responsible to use electronics as long as possible, doing so may reduce your productivity or leave...
by Garret Cleversley | May 14, 2022 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, ASMC, ASMC Archive, Calendar, iPhone, Mac, productivity, Restricted Content, Tip
The iPhone’s Calendar app defaults to graphical views for Day, Week (rotate to landscape), Month, and Year, but only the Day view shows information about your actual events, and even then, it’s easy to miss events that are outside the times that fit onscreen. If you...
by Garret Cleversley | May 10, 2022 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, ASMC, ASMC Archive, keyboard shortcut, Mac, productivity, Restricted Content, Tip, Trash
You know that you can drag files or folders to the Trash icon in the Dock for later deletion. And you probably know that you can select multiple items on the Desktop or in a Finder window by Command-clicking each one in turn (Shift-click to select a sequential range...
