by Garret Cleversley | Oct 3, 2019 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, ASMC, ASMC Archive, customization, iTunes, Mac, Restricted Content, Tip
“Winter Wonderland” may be a great song to listen to when the snow flies, but if you’re sweltering in the summer heat, having it pop up while iTunes is shuffling through your music feels wrong. Happily, there’s a way to prevent holiday music from playing out of...
by Garret Cleversley | Oct 1, 2019 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, Article, ASMC, ASMC Archive, Catalina, iTunes, Mac, Music, Notes, Photos, Podcasts, privacy, productivity, Reminders, Restricted Content, Screen Time, security, Sidecar, Solution, TV, Voice Control
In a break from Apple’s pattern of alternating cycle of releases, macOS 10.15 Catalina is not a refinement of 10.14 Mojave like 10.13 High Sierra was for 10.12 Sierra. Instead, Catalina boasts significant changes, both obvious things like new apps and less-obvious...
by Garret Cleversley | Jul 23, 2019 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, ASMC, ASMC Archive, iTunes, Mac, maintenance, Restricted Content, storage, Tip
If you’ve been good about backing up your iOS devices to iTunes on your Mac or to iCloud, give yourself a gold star! Both backup destinations are fine, but there’s one potential downside to iTunes backups: they can consume a lot of space on your Mac’s drive. In...
by Garret Cleversley | Jun 26, 2019 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, Article, ASMC, ASMC Archive, backup, How-To, iCloud, iOS 12, iTunes, Mac, Mojave, Restricted Content, security
Poll a room of Apple experts about the one topic they can’t stop talking about and many will launch into frustrated rants about how too few people back up. Backups are always important, since you can never predict when your Mac or iPhone will be lost or stolen, melt...
by Garret Cleversley | Apr 3, 2019 | Apple Music, Apple Pros, APros Archive, ASMC, ASMC Archive, iOS, iTunes, Mac, Music, Restricted Content, Tip
If you’re an Apple Music subscriber, you probably know that it can play music that’s related to a particular artist or track—just tell Siri, “Play a radio station based on the Beatles” to get a bunch of songs from the likes of the Rolling Stones, Simon &...
