Hints, Tips and Tricks for your Apple products
Finder New Window Default Location
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Helping you to tame your Finder experience - Finder default location for new windows makes all the difference.
By default when you open a window in the Finder it will open your most recent documents - a collection of the most recently used files; new ones, edited ones etc. Your Mac has to keep an account of these items and then generate the collection so that it can be viewed in the finder window. This process takes a little time, especially if you are on a system running a hard drive.
See In The Dark: Using Dark Mode
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Not how to use the Torch on iOS. Instead we explore the options that allow you to use your devices later in the evening without over stimulating your senses, ensuring a good nights sleep can be achieved.
Ever felt fatigued at night after using your iOS device or Mac? Well if you really can't put it down earlier, Apple have developed two features that help you to have a more restful experience when using your device in the early hours.
On Your Marks . . . Improving Your Mac's Start Up Speed
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How does your Mac cope with start up. Check out how Launch Items can influence the performance of your machine at this critical speed bottleneck.
MacOS makes it easy to add items to a list that will launch at start-up. This can be very useful for applications that you always use, servers that you wish to connect to, or even a file or document you always want to work on. Once the OS has loaded it moves onto your user account and the items on this list and launches them ready for your use once your account is fully loaded.
Leveraging Smart Folders On MacOS
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Delve into the world of Smart folders and find files you forgot even existed, let alone where they were located on your system.
The finder makes it very easy to look at your files. Sometimes, though, you want to find a file that is of a particular type that was created on a particular day and has a tag applied. Unless you are very very well organised the likelihood of finding the file that matches that particular combination of criteria is most unlikely. Well this is exactly where Smart Folders come in.
Custom Mailboxes On iPhone
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It's possible to customise which mailboxes are visible in the Mail app in iOS. Click through to find out how.
The default mailbox view in the Mail app on iOS gives you the standard set of mailboxes which is great, but sometimes a bit more flexibility would be useful.
The Amazing Option Key On MacOS
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The hidden power of the option key in MacOS.
The option key is an often ignored key on the Apple keyboard. This is partly because it gets labelled many different things (Option, alt and ⌥), but also because people donât realise quite how useful it can be.
Scan Documents With Your iPhone
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Sometimes you need to scan a document in, but it's a pain to have a large flat bed scanner for the purpose. Now using your iPhone you can create scans without the unnecessary bulk of a dedicated piece of hardware.
You have several documents that you need to scan in but no longer have that huge clunky flatbed scanner that was a nuisance to keep around for the few occasions you needed it. Or you just want to take a picture of a recipe so that you have it on your phone for later, but need it to be legible. Or you want to take a snapshot of that business card so that you can check it out again at your convenience.
Custom Text Responses On iPhone
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Ever find yourself in need of a quick text response when you don't want to take a call but find the default ones don't quite hit the mark? Read on to find out how to change them.
Sometimes you just are not able or want to take a call. iOS gives you a handy little feature to respond with a text message and decline the call. When you press message on the screen when a call comes in you are presented with a list of default pre-written responses and the option to write your own on the fly, but if those standard options are not ones you want to use itâs possible to customise the list.