May 10, 2018 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, Blog, Finder, Mac, Restricted Content, Tip, troubleshooting
Finder freezes. They shouldn’t happen at all, and they don’t happen often, but it’s not unheard of for your Mac’s Finder to freeze, freak out, or otherwise stop responding properly. To bring it back to life, hold down the Option key, click and hold the Finder icon in...
Feb 22, 2018 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, Blog, iOS, iPhone, productivity, Reminders, Restricted Content, Siri, Tip
Do you create reminders with Siri on the iPhone? Those reminders are automatically added to your default list, which you set in Settings > Reminders > Default List. That’s great generally—“Hey Siri, remind me to update watchOS tonight at 11 PM”—but less good...
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...
Jan 8, 2018 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, Blog, High Sierra, image editing, Mac, macOS, Photos, productivity, Restricted Content, Tip
In macOS 10.13 High Sierra, Apple significantly enhanced the editing capabilities of Photos, adding tools for adjusting specific colors, fine-tuning color and contrast via curves, and even focusing an image with vignetting. But it still lacks many features found in...
