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 | Sep 26, 2019 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, ASMC, ASMC Archive, keyboard shortcut, Mac, productivity, Restricted Content, Tip
Traditionally, extended keyboards come with a Forward Delete key that, when you press it, deletes characters to the right of the insertion point, unlike the main Delete key, which deletes to the left of the insertion point. Forward Delete still exists on Apple’s Magic...
by Garret Cleversley | Sep 25, 2019 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, ASMC, ASMC Archive, customization, iOS, Mac, Mail, notifications, Restricted Content, Tip
Few people get so little email that they want an iPhone notification for every message that rolls in. But many of us have just a couple of people—our personal VIPs—whose messages are important enough to warrant an alert. If that’s true for you, and you want to know...
by Garret Cleversley | Sep 23, 2019 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, ASMC, ASMC Archive, customization, Finder, Mac, Restricted Content, Tip
Do you have a document that you open regularly, perhaps from your Desktop? If you’d like to make it stand out from other documents, why not give it a custom icon? This was common practice on the Mac back in the day, and it’s still possible in modern versions of macOS....
by Garret Cleversley | Sep 20, 2019 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, ASMC, ASMC Archive, Contacts, customization, iOS, Mac, Mail, Messages, Restricted Content, Tip
If you have a friend whom you refer to only by his nickname, it can be annoying to feel like you should use his proper first name when adding him to Contacts. Worse, then he shows up in Messages with a name you don’t recognize as easily. Here’s how to convince iOS to...
by Garret Cleversley | Aug 16, 2019 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, ASMC, ASMC Archive, iPhone, Mac, phone, productivity, Restricted Content, Tip
Most iOS apps and many Web sites make phone numbers “hot” so you can tap them to call. But it’s not uncommon to run across a number that’s formatted oddly or broken across a line of text such that it can’t be recognized. Just because iOS can’t recognize it doesn’t...
