Useful Tips and tricks to make your Apple user experience more streamlined. Explore these articles to learn how to automate tasks and customize your user interface.
When you see something happening, and you want to start recording it as quickly as possible, it can take far too much time to go through the usual process of unlocking your phone, selecting the Camera app, switching to Video mode, then finally pressing the record (Shutter) button. Using QuickTake is the fastest way to … Read more
For some years now, your hard drive’s icon no longer shows up by default on your Mac desktop. If you had gotten used to having that icon there, however, you might really miss it. This article will explain how to put your hard disk icon on your desktop; you’ll see how to put other icons, … Read more
If you have installed Spotify on your Mac, it will automatically open itself whenever you turn on or log in to your Mac. If you are not using the app frequently, you may want to change this as you do not need the app running all the time in the background. When an app is … Read more
Screencast-O-Matic is a web-based service for creating screen recordings. It is very popular because it is an easy-to-use program. Although it is an online service, you will need to install its desktop application to run the software. You can record videos from your webcam, capture your Mac’s computer screen, and record your voice. I recently … Read more
I recently sent in my MacBook Pro for a battery replacement, and when I got it back, it kept showing the message “You shut down your computer because of a problem” whenever I would restart it. After doing some research, I could see that many users have had this problem with their Macs running Monterey, … Read more
When you export your iMovie projects, you may notice that your videos seem like they have been cropped, and some important details from the edges of the video content are missing. Cropping is actually a process of trimming, deleting or adjusting the frame edges (top, bottom, left or right) to remove the unwanted details so … Read more
Sometimes you may receive phone calls or text messages from contacts even after they are blocked. Obviously, this may create a serious problem for you. You blocked that number for a reason, and if you still continue to get phone or FaceTime calls, something is clearly not working. These blocked contacts will still be able … Read more
You can easily block phone numbers on your iPhone or iPad if you do not want to get calls or texts from those numbers. For example, you may want to block the same telemarketers that keep calling you, or there may be someone in your life you never want to contact again. Blocking enables you … Read more
Sometimes you may see a pop-up message on your Apple device (iPhone, iPad or Mac) saying that your Apple ID and/or phone number is being used for an Apple service, like iMessage or FaceTime, on a new device by someone. There are a few variations of the message. It may say only your Apple ID … Read more
Sometimes you may see this error message on one of your Apple devices, including iPad, iPhone or Mac. Below is the screenshot you may see. The error message says, “Messages in iCloud is not available because iCloud and iMessage accounts are different.” This error message indicates that syncing is not working as expected. This may … Read more