Hints, Tips and Tricks for your Apple products
The Twelve Tips of Christmas
10 minute read
Join us during advent as we open up a quick tip every other day to help keep you moving smoothly whilst the festive season is upon us.
After trawling Amazon for the 100th time in the hopes of satisfying the need to find a gift for some obscure relative, why not leaven your experience with a little 'Tip Aperitifâ; a perfect little pallet cleanser to keep you going for the duration of the festive season. Visit us over the coming days to reveal a new quick tip that will make life on your Mac or iPhone just that little bit easier. Itâs a tech advent calendar of sorts!
Using Centralised Storage with the Mac
4 minute read
We delve into the benefits of a centralised storage system, be it in the cloud or on your local network, and find out how to start using it today.
There are multiple reasons for using centralised storage in your workflow. Many are dependent upon the size of your team, but centralised storage can be very useful in a family or solo environment also. In this article we take a look at the centralised storage solutions that are available and how we can use them to make our data accessibility ubiquitous.
Typing Accents On Apple Devices
1 minute read
Whenever you need to add an accented character to your typing, we have the solution whether you are on MacOS, iPad OS or iOS.
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Ginger & Tweed
5 minute read
We interview Ginger & Tweed, a local small business creating handcrafted homewares. Their products are awesome and they have some great pieces that are really useful for your Apple items.
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HEIC
5 minute read
How to get by with HEIC images, which you may or may not realise you were using!
HEIC is the container format (read file extension) for the HEIF format. Still confused? Well lets look a little deeper. HEIF stands for High Efficiency Image Format, it's a new technology using modern compression techniques to store an image. It's replacing the older and established JPEG format that has become the standard for storing images. Since 2017 Apple switched to using HEIC as the default image codec on all supported iOS devices.
Save Time E-Sign
2 minute read
Getting your document signed and returned electronically on Mac and iOS is simple using the OS feature of Markup.
As things move forward, and more so in these times of social isolation, we are increasingly finding the need to sign electronic documents. A few years ago Apple introduced a feature called Markup which makes the process of digitally e-signing a document much easier then it had been previously. Watch the video below to see how you can do this on both the Mac and iOS.
The Ongoing Search
2 minute read
Search in iOS is as powerful as it is in Mac OS. Read on to find out how to access it.
Previously we have looked at Spotlight on Mac OS, which has many powerful features for helping you out in ways that you may not have thought about, such as using it as a calculator, finding contacts, doing conversions etc. You can find out more by looking at that blog post.
See In The Dark: Using Dark Mode
3 minute read
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.