Cleaning Up Email on your Mac

When I’m asked what I do when my Mac has problems, I usually say “It doesn’t”. Which for the most part they don’t. I have a few rituals I perform to help my Macs stay healthy. About once a month I run Cocktail or Onyx. This general purpose utility cleans up cache files and runs maintenance scripts, with…

Email may not be as sexy a way to communicate as modern-day darlings like Messages, Slack, or Microsoft Teams, but it remains the workhorse of business and personal communications. While Apple’s Mail is a mature app that has long provided the necessary basics, there has been room for improvement. In iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and…

In today’s world, there’s no reason to remember our contacts’ phone numbers or email addresses—that’s a job for our Macs, iPhones, and iPads. This sort of data is so core to using digital devices that Apple has long provided an ecosystem-wide solution in the form of Contacts and syncing through iCloud. Unfortunately, it’s all too…

It’s easy to take lots of photos on vacation these days, and while a slideshow of all of them is a bit much, friends and relatives might like to see a Best Of collection. Or you might wish to share baby photos with your family or pictures of your new city with friends back home….

This month we delve deep into Message settings (touch Settings, then Messages) to see what they mean and why you’re getting text messages on your Mac or iPad too. At the top you’ll see iMessage (a.). This is Apple’s implementation of text messaging. If this is on and you send a text message to another…

Did you know you can forward a text message or picture from your iPhone or iPad? It’s easy if you know the steps This works on an iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Not sure which icons are share or how to get the “More” option, here is a short video outlining the process.