Hints, Tips and Tricks for your Apple products

Unleash Your Mac Shortcut Potential

3 minute read

More shortcuts that are useful in everyday Mac use. Check them out and accelerate your ability to interact with your Mac.

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The more that you get used to using shortcuts, when interacting with your Mac, the more you'll crave the ability to use even more. Well Mac OS obliges and there are many, many more useful shortcuts available to you that can help to keep your hands on they keyboard for speed and efficiency.

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Demystifying iCloud

6 minute read

Just what is iCloud and what can I expect it to do for me?

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iCloud, the collection of internet services suppled by Apple, can be confusing to understand. In this article we seek to dispel the misconceptions and outline just exactly what it is and what it isn't.

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Taking Control Of Control Centre

3 minute read

You can customise the Control Centre so that your most used utilities are at your finger tips at any time of day.

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Unless you are menu diving it is easy to miss the fact that you can customise the Control Centre screen. The default set is great, but there are so many other little apps that you can enable that are genuinely useful to be able to get to quickly.

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Organisational Methods to Boost Efficiency in MacOS

3 minute read

The MacOS has many features that help you to keep organised and keeping organised helps you to be efficient and productive.

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The Mac has lots of little features built in to help boost your productivity, many of these help you with the organisation of your files. Although being organised isn't essential for using your computer, having logical routines certainly help with keeping you sane when you can't find the presentation you have been working on for the last few days, minutes before you have to show it! Below are several helpful tips to get you on track with being as efficient as possible.

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What is Apple TV?

4 minute read

What is Apple TV? What does it do and why would I want it? We give you an overview of the Apple TV's key features to show you how it can become the central hub to your TV experience.

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Apple TV is a small box that connects to any HDMI capable TV and allows you to view content up to 4K HDR with Dolby Atmos sound. As it runs a special operating system designed purely for it's hardware you get the legendary Apple ease of use with powerful features that make using your TV effortless. Read on to find out about some of the key features.

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How A Tidy Desktop Improves Your Mac's Performance

4 minute read

The pursuit of the clean Desktop and it's impact on the performance of your Mac.

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Many people use there desktop as their filling system. Everything goes there; downloads from the web, the presentation for work, their CV, and the new set of photos from their recent trip to the Greek islands.

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Becoming A Text Ninja

2 minute read

Pinch, swipe and triple tap your way to text manipulation success in iOS.

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Originally the iPhone shipped with no support for functions like copy and paste. Later Apple added support for these features, but dealing with text manipulation always proved to be tricky and fiddly, causing frustrations and time waisting.

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Spotlight On Spotlight

3 minute read

Spotlight is so much more then just a system wide search. Read on to find out just how flexible and useful it can be.

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Spotlight is the system wide search functionality built into MacOS. It allows you to search for any document, folder or application on your system as well as giving you suggested web pages, videos online, dictionary definitions etc for your search terms. It's supper flexible and fast allowing you to easily find what you are looking for.

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