Feb 15, 2018 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, ASMC, customization, facial recognition, Mac, Photos, Restricted Content, Tip
Apple’s Photos app is remarkably good at identifying people in your snapshots and collecting all the pictures that contain a particular person into a group in its People view. At its top level, the People view shows a thumbnail photo for each person, picking one...
Feb 8, 2018 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, Blog, Chrome, Firefox, Mac, productivity, Restricted Content, Safari, swipe, Tip, trackpad
For navigation, every Web browser offers back and forward buttons, generally represented by arrows in the upper left of the toolbar. You can also navigate by choosing menu commands and typing keyboard shortcuts—did you know that Command-Left arrow and Command-Right...
Feb 6, 2018 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, battery, Blog, Control Center, iPhone, iPhone X, productivity, Restricted Content, Tip
Wondering what happened to the numeric battery percentage indicator on the iPhone X? The notch takes up enough space at the top of the screen that there was room only for the battery icon, which can be hard to interpret. If you want to see precisely what percentage of...
Feb 5, 2018 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, Article, audio, Blog, HomePod, iPhone, News, Restricted Content
Move over, Amazon Echo and Google Home, there’s a new smart speaker coming soon. First announced back in June of 2017, Apple’s long-awaited HomePod will ship in the US, UK, and Australia on February 9th for $349. You can get it in space gray or white. Where Amazon and...
Jan 21, 2018 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, Article, Blog, customization, High Sierra, Mac, macOS, Restricted Content, Safari, Solution, Web site
Although macOS 10.13 High Sierra was light on new features, it did bring one welcome addition to Safari—site-specific settings. Imagine that you regularly visit a blog that you prefer to read using Safari’s Reader view. Rather than invoke it each time you visit, you...
Jan 15, 2018 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, Article, Blog, Explainer, hardware, iMac Pro, Mac, productivity, Restricted Content
Apple’s new iMac Pro has started shipping, and it’s an astonishing machine. Put simply, it’s the most powerful Mac ever, a title it will likely retain until Apple releases a new version of the Mac Pro, promised for sometime in 2018. But for now, what’s special about...
