by Garret Cleversley | Jun 16, 2022 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, ASMC, ASMC Archive, iOS, iPadOS, Mac, Music, Restricted Content, Tip
It’s often tough to figure out exactly what a singer is saying (which can lead to some amusing mistakes), but for many songs in Apple Music, you can bring up full lyrics in the Music app, regardless of which device you’re using. On the Mac, click the speech balloon...
by Garret Cleversley | Jun 14, 2022 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, ASMC, ASMC Archive, camera, iPhone, Mac, photo, Restricted Content, Tip, troubleshooting, zoom
We increasingly need to take photos of documents—vaccination cards, driver licenses, passports, etc.—to submit for online verification. That’s often easier said than done, especially when taking a photo at night under lights that obscure the text with glare and...
by Garret Cleversley | Jun 10, 2022 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, ASMC, ASMC Archive, iOS, iPadOS, Mac, networking, passwords, productivity, Restricted Content, Tip, Wi-Fi
You’re on vacation with your family, staying in an Airbnb, with multiple Apple devices to connect to the apartment’s Wi-Fi. Typing the password repeatedly would be a pain, but happily, Apple has added a password-sharing feature to all its operating systems. Once you...
by Garret Cleversley | Jun 8, 2022 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, ASMC, ASMC Archive, Mac, Restricted Content, text, Tip, troubleshooting
Most of the time, it’s appropriate when an auto-correct feature turns single and double hash marks into single and double curly quotes. However, there are times when the curly quotes are awkward for some reason or actively wrong. For instance, hash marks indicate feet...
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...
