The near-ubiquity of videoconferencing is a lasting effect of the pandemic and the ease of gathering a group virtually usually makes up for the downsides. However, video calls with low-resolution or poorly lit video can make the call less effective. A better webcam is an easy way to improve your video; the best readily available…
Does it feel like your Apple devices are always asking you to install operating system updates? You’re not wrong—from September 2022 to January 2024, we saw the following releases in Apple’s previous set of operating systems: macOS 13 Ventura: 20 releases iOS 16: 25 releases iPadOS 16: 20 releases watchOS 9: 15 releases tvOS 16:…
Have you ever noticed the shading in the corner of text area fields in Safari, Chrome, Firefox, and most other Mac Web browsers? These “handles” let you resize the field—always vertically and sometimes horizontally. That’s handy when the website designer has provided only a small text box and you want to enter more text than…
How would you realize that one or more of your Internet accounts—email, social media, financial—have been hacked? (Techs may also use the terms “compromised” or “breached.” Unfortunately, there’s no telltale warning sign because “hacked” could mean many things. Here are some possible indications: People you trust report receiving email that you didn’t send. Social media…
In September, Apple introduced tvOS 17, which included several eagerly awaited features. One of the highlights was its support for FaceTime calls. This was made possible using Continuity Camera with an iPhone or iPad, equipping the Apple TV with the necessary camera and microphone. To get started, launch the Zoom app on the Apple TV….
Last year, a series of articles by Wall Street Journal reporters Joanna Stern and Nicole Nguyen highlighted a troubling form of crime targeting iPhone users. A thief would discover the victim’s iPhone passcode, swipe the iPhone, and run. With just the passcode, the thief could quickly change the victim’s Apple ID password, lock them out…
In a slight nod to the hype surrounding generative AI, Apple added inline text prediction capabilities to the iPhone, iPad, and Mac. It can be helpful, particularly on the iPhone and iPad, where it’s often much easier to tap the Space bar than to finish typing a word or sentence. But that’s less true on…
January’s big security news was the Mother of All Breaches. This was a release of a massive database containing 26 billion records built from previous breaches across numerous websites, including Adobe, Dropbox, LinkedIn, and Twitter. It’s unclear how much of the leaked data is new, but it’s a good reminder to update your passwords…
Happy New Year, and welcome to 2024! For many of us, starting a new year means reflecting on fresh habits we’d like to adopt. Although we support any resolutions you may have made to get enough sleep, eat better, exercise more, and reduce social media usage, we would also like to suggest a few more…
The concept of site-specific browsers has been around for a long time, but in the version of Safari with macOS 14 Sonoma, Apple brought it to the big time by making the setup more effortless than ever. Put simply, a site-specific browser is a Mac app that encapsulates a single Web app or site. The…