by Garret Cleversley | May 6, 2021 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, Article, ASMC, ASMC Archive, email, Mac, Mail, productivity, Restricted Content, Solution, troubleshooting
Email is a major part of all our lives, both personally and professionally, and as such, it can add up. Before you know it, you have years of email stored away—potentially tens or even hundreds of thousands of messages. Most of the time, that’s fine. Email doesn’t...
by Garret Cleversley | May 4, 2021 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, Article, ASMC, ASMC Archive, Explainer, InDesign, Mac, Microsoft Word, page layout, Pages, productivity, Restricted Content, word processing
Some of the trickiest editing and proofreading problems are related to characters you can’t typically see on the screen: spaces, tabs, and returns. Just because they’re invisible doesn’t mean they don’t affect the look of a document, often in negative ways. For...
by Garret Cleversley | May 2, 2021 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, Article, ASMC, ASMC Archive, Desktop, Do Not Disturb, How-To, Mac, Notification Center, privacy, Restricted Content, videoconferencing
Along with the now-ubiquitous videoconferencing, screen sharing and online presentations have become vastly more common during the pandemic. This isn’t yet another article about how to give a better presentation or feel more confident. (Although those might happen...
by Garret Cleversley | Apr 30, 2021 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, ASMC, ASMC Archive, Big Sur, Finder, Mac, Preview, productivity, Restricted Content, Tip
This is a twofer tip. You may not have known that every document window in macOS has long had a proxy icon in the title bar, next to the filename. The proxy icon is not just cosmetic. You can drag it to Mail to attach the document to a message, to a Web browser to...
by Garret Cleversley | Apr 28, 2021 | App Store, Apple Pros, APros Archive, ASMC, ASMC Archive, iOS, Mac, Restricted Content, Tip, troubleshooting, updates
If you’ve turned on automatic App Updates in Settings > App Store on your iPhone or iPad, you might wonder how you’d know if an app was updated or what changed. To find that information, open the App Store app and tap your avatar icon in the upper-right corner....
by Garret Cleversley | Apr 26, 2021 | accessibility, Apple Pros, APros Archive, ASMC, ASMC Archive, Big Sur, customization, Mac, menu bar, Restricted Content, Tip
In macOS 11 Big Sur, Apple went back to a design direction from the earliest days of Mac OS X: a translucent menu bar. Since its color changes depending on the desktop picture, many people aren’t enamored of it (left, below). Luckily, reverting to the traditional...
