Last week, I showed you how to customize the Dock on your Apple Watch so that you can get to the apps you use quicker. This week, I’m going to show you how to use your Apple Watch to Unlock your Mac. Security While the iPhone has had the TouchID sensor or FaceID since the […]
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Welcome to another Tech Tip Tuesday! This week, we’re going to be customizing the dock on the Apple Watch. What is the Dock? On the Apple Watch, a press of the large square button near the crown (the crown is the the spinning part) brings up the dock on your Apple Watch. By default, the
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Much ink has been typed about the current keyboard on Apple’s MacBook line. While I haven’t owned a current generation laptop with the butterfly keyboard of any type for longer than a week part of the reason why I haven’t jumped into the new laptops is the keyboard. The Feel When I tested out the
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Rumors today have indicated something the community has been wanting for a while. It seems that the end is nigh for iTunes. At the last Apple media event, Apple mentioned that a new TV app was coming to Mac, which was the first sign that iTunes might be no more. We didn’t have any other
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As a writer, I loved my iPad for its ability to go anywhere and allow me to focus on just the writing. However, working with text on the iPad frustrated me to no end. Luckily, Apple developers probably ran into the same problems. They have made it so much easier to deal with text on
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The first AirPods found a mass market success. When they were first announced at a whooping $159.00 I wasn’t sure that they would stand as the hit that Apple wanted after Apple cut the headphone jack from the iPhone because of “courage.” Luckily for Apple, the AirPods were built with the magic that Apple had
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If you’ve been keeping up with me on Instagram and Facebook, you should have noticed that my new iMac 2019 came in last week. I was pretty excited to once again have a desktop Mac, especially one with such a great screen. I would like to say that I’ve put the machine through its paces,
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Welcome back to JSwordSmith’s Tech Tip Tuesday! Last week Tech Tip Tuesday taught you how to change the double tap feature of your AirPods. Today, I’m going to show you how to customize Control Center. What is Control Center On any iOS device you have access to many controls that you might not have known
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Welcome to the JSwordSmith iPad buyer’s guide! I put this little resource together to help shoppers make the best decisions when shopping for an iPad. Updated (3/31/2019): Apple updated for the new iPad Air and iPad Mini that were released this week. What are my options? Apple is now making more iPads than ever
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In a surprise announcement today, Apple announced an updated MacBook and MacBook Pro. The new MacBooks are running with brand new Intel 9th generation and don’t really appear to have any outward cosmetic or design changes. But on the inside, Apple has replaced the 3rd generation butterfly keyboard with what they are calling a Force-Touch
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