by Garret Cleversley | May 10, 2021 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, Article, ASMC, ASMC Archive, Dropbox, file sharing, Google Docs, How-To, iCloud, iCloud Drive, iPad, iPhone, Mac, productivity, Restricted Content
Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, and Microsoft OneDrive all have their place, but as of March 2020, Apple users no longer have to venture outside the Apple ecosystem for online folder sharing. Before then, you could share a single file in iCloud with another iCloud user,...
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 | Jan 29, 2021 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, Article, ASMC, ASMC Archive, How-To, M1, Mac, Restricted Content, Target Disk Mode, troubleshooting
For many years, Macs have relied on sets of keys held at startup to enable specific modes. Most notably, pressing Option displays the Startup Manager and lets you pick a boot drive, Command-R starts up from macOS Recovery, Command-Option-P-R resets the NVRAM, Shift...
by Garret Cleversley | Jan 21, 2021 | App Library, Apple Pros, APros Archive, Article, ASMC, ASMC Archive, customization, gesture, How-To, iOS 14, Mac, Restricted Content
Many of us have been using iPhones for years, and apps we bought or downloaded long ago molder in corners of our Home screens. Even if you haven’t played Flappy Bird in years, its pixelated icon still stares glumly at you every time you peer at its Home screen, and...
by Garret Cleversley | Jan 15, 2021 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, Article, ASMC, ASMC Archive, customization, How-To, Mac, MacBook Pro, productivity, Restricted Content, Touch Bar
In 2016, Apple introduced the Touch Bar with the MacBook Pro. It’s a long, thin display above the number keys on the keyboard that shows a variety of buttons and controls. By default, it changes depending on which app you’re in, and it also displays the Control Strip,...
by Garret Cleversley | Dec 19, 2020 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, Article, ASMC, ASMC Archive, Facebook, How-To, iOS, Mac, privacy, Restricted Content
Even beyond its often controversial behavior in the 2020 US presidential election, Facebook continually makes news headlines for its numerous privacy and security problems. Most notable, of course, were the 50 million Facebook profiles gathered for Cambridge Analytica...
