Knowing how to set up Wallet and Apple Pay on Mac is your first step to greater financial efficiency. You can then choose Apple Pay during checkout, enter your password or use Touch ID, and speed up your purchasing experience.
Set up Wallet and Appl…
Just over a year ago, Apple announced the next-gen iPad Pro packing the same M1 silicon as its computing brethren in the Mac lineup. With the move, Apple took a massive lead in the tablet ecosystem, redefining what that form factor can accomplish. But …
One of the best parts about owning an Apple computer is the massive ecosystem of superb Mac apps it gives you access to. There are apps available to Mac users no matter what you are looking for, whether that’s productivity, photo and video editors, sec…
You might be familiar with text replacements on your iPhone, where you use shortcuts to replace longer strings of text. You can do the same thing on your Mac to speed up your workflow.
You can use text shortcuts for things like your name, company, and …
Whether you’re setting up a new Mac, adding another user, or just want to personalize your Mac more, consider picking out a custom login picture. This is the image you see above your username on your Mac’s lock screen when you enter your password (even…
The MacBooks versus Windows laptops debate has been raging for decades, but never has it been this intense or important. New advances in chip technology are propelling even entry-level MacBooks to high-performance targets, and a shift away from cheap p…
When you get rid of an item on your Mac like a file, image, or application, it goes into the Trash folder. Trash on Mac is similar to Recycle Bin on Windows. Your items remain there until you empty it
Because the Trash folder can become full of items t…
One of Mac’s most used apps hasn’t seen a significant redesign in years. While the Contacts app works just fine, there are plenty of ways it could be improved, as shown in a fascinating new concept that reimagines it after being given the same treatmen…
Even with a really great Mac login password and clever password hint, it’s possible to totally forget what it was. At that moment, you could be locked out of your Mac or MacBook. This situation can be particularly frustrating when deadlines approach or…
Whether you’re punching up an email or crafting the next great American novel, a solid keyboard is a must-have if you spend a lot of time writing. Having a great keyboard for writing will improve your typing speed and accuracy, which means you will spe…
Multitasking on Macs has long been a sore spot. In fact, between Snap Layouts and Snap Groups, it’s one of the main advantages Windows 11 continues to have over MacOS.
Or so I thought.
Little did I know that MacOS also has a neat productivity trick up…
Apple’s MacOS provides notifications that pop up in the upper-right corner of the display. These can be for new email messages, appointment reminders, task reminders, and app-specific notifications. If you don’t respond to a notification immediately, t…
When Apple released MacOS Monterey, it gave users the Quick Note feature. This is a great way to capture a “quick note” without taking an extra step to open the Notes app.
While you can create a Quick Note using a keyboard shortcut, Apple gave the feat…
A Mac computer is a versatile device, and one of its biggest productivity boosters is called Hot Corners. This convenient feature is somewhat hidden away in System Preferences, but it’s easy to access and quick to set up when you know where to look.
It…
The dock in MacOS is a core part of the experience on any Mac. You pin and launch your apps from it, get to the Finder, and you even can pick up apps from your iPhone, too.
But most people never get beyond the default settings, and that’s a shame.&nbs…