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New Bill May Help Small Businesses With CyberSecurity Guidance

If you’re a small business owner, you may feel completely overwhelmed by the digital security threats you face, and you’re not alone. A recent survey indicated that more than 70% of all ...

The Secret to Typing Accented Characters and URLs in iOS

Did you know that many keys on the small iPhone keyboard are hiding additional characters? To type an O with an umlaut, for instance, press (lightly) and hold the O key, and a popover appears with accented variants of O. ...

Change Mac Window Size from Any Edge or Corner

Those who have used Macs for years know that you can resize nearly any window by dragging its bottom right corner—through Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, there was even a resize handle in that spot. But did you know that, ...

Break the iPad’s Virtual Keyboard in Half for Thumb Typing

The iPad’s onscreen keyboard is an awkward size—too small for adults to type on like a regular keyboard in landscape mode, but too large to thumb-type on like an iPhone in portrait mode unless you have large hands like a ...

Reduce Transparency in the macOS Interface

Starting in OS X 10.10 Yosemite, Apple added transparency throughout the user interface, so when you’re looking at a menu, for instance, the color of the background bleeds through slightly. If that transparency makes the text hard for you to ...

Prepare for the Worst with an iPhone Medical ID

No one expects to be in an accident, but if you are, and if you end up in a state where you can’t speak with the emergency responders, wouldn’t you like your iPhone to help? Once you enter your medical ...

Three Clipboard Utilities to Enhance Copy & Paste

Perhaps the greatest unheralded innovation of the computer age is Copy & Paste. You may not think about the humble clipboard much, but Copy & Paste has saved you incalculable amounts of effort by enabling you to copy something you’ve ...

11 Ways to Ensure Your iPhone Battery Life Goes to 11

It’s inevitable. At some point, you’ll need your iPhone, but its battery will be dead. And as an iPhone ages, its battery becomes weaker, to the point where it may have trouble making it through a typical day of use. ...

Are You Still Using POP for Email? Switch to IMAP!

When you read an email message on your iPhone and delete it, do you have to trash it again when you check mail on your Mac? Or is your email kept in sync such that if you delete a message ...

Buy Computer Hardware Now: Prices Expected To Increase This Year

If you’re in the market for new hardware, PC or smartphone, now is the time to buy. All indications are that prices are going to be rising in the next year. There ...

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