Your daily dose of practical, easy to follow tech tips!
Is there a Windows program (or two, or ten) that you’d really love to run but you just don’t want to ditch your Mac and buy a PC?
Well guess what? You can easily run Windows programs and apps right on your Mac while still using macOS as the machine’s primary operating system. [Read more…]
Question from Betty: Thanks for everything you do to help us, Rick. Your tips are wonderful.
If you don’t mind I’d like to ask a question about my iMac.
I’m always hitting the ‘Caps Lock’ key by accident and typing things in all upper case.
I read this tip that explains how to disable the Caps Lock key on a Windows computer.
Is it possible to disable it on a Mac too? [Read more…]
Like other popular web browsers, Safari allows you to choose the default search engine you want to use when you search for something on the web with your Apple device.
Safari comes pre-configured with Google set as its default search engine, but you can easily change that to Bing, DuckDuckGo or one of several other popular search engines if you choose to do so. [Read more…]
If you use a Mac there are probably times when you’d like to view (and use) two different apps at the same time.
That would have been fairly difficult back in the days of small screens, but with today’s wide-screen monitors there’s now plenty of room for showing two apps at once in windows that are large enough to actually be usable.
If your Mac is running macOS Catalina or later (and if it’s a relatively recent model, it should be), you can use a super-handy feature called “Split View” to make that happen. [Read more…]
Question from Michelle: I bought a new MacBook in December 2020 and I’m curious about which type of processor it has in it.
I recently found out that Apple started putting different processors in their machines around that same time and that some programs won’t work with the new processors.
How can I find out whether my MacBook has the older processor or the new one? [Read more…]