Category: apple

  • How to Export Your Entire Spotify Library for Free

    How to Export Your Entire Spotify Library for Free

    Read full article: at LifeHacker There are many reasons to move away from Spotify. Apple Music now has lossless audio at a cheaper rate. If you use Amazon Prime, Prime Music comes free; if you have an Echo smart speaker, it’s the cheapest way to stream your music. Spotify doesn’t have music by Neil Young…

  • How to Download Everything Amazon Knows About You (It's a Lot)

    How to Download Everything Amazon Knows About You (It's a Lot)

    Read full article: at LifeHacker Here’s a fun thought experiment; picture the amount of personal data you think tech companies keep on you. Now, realize it’s actually way more than that (hmm, maybe this isn’t that fun). Even as privacy and security become more talked about in consumer tech, the companies behind our favorite products are…

  • How to Use Captions to Organize Your iPhone Photo Library

    How to Use Captions to Organize Your iPhone Photo Library

    Read full article: at LifeHacker Google Photos does a great job sorting through your photos using a text search, thanks to the tech giant’s prowess with image recognition, machine learning, and, er, search. Apple’s Photos app isn’t nearly as useful—but you can do a few things to fix that. Read more… Read full article: at…

  • How to Make Your iPhone's Voice Memos Sound Better

    How to Make Your iPhone's Voice Memos Sound Better

    Read full article: at LifeHacker The iPhone’s Voice Memos app is easy to use to record anything from a college lecture to a podcast—but not all recordings turn out to have the quality you’d like. You might end up with wind noise in the background, or a speaker’s voice that is barely audible. With patience…

  • How to Make Your External Monitor Look As Sharp As Your High-Res Mac Display

    How to Make Your External Monitor Look As Sharp As Your High-Res Mac Display

    Read full article: at LifeHacker Since Apple introduced the Retina display to the Mac back in 2012, most of their lineup has shipped with one of the laser sharp, pleasingly crisp screens. Whether you have a small 12-inch laptop display or a large 27-inch desktop, your Mac likely looks great. So it can be frustrating…

  • How to Use Those Full-Screen iMessage Effects on Your Mac

    How to Use Those Full-Screen iMessage Effects on Your Mac

    Read full article: at LifeHacker You may not have realized that the full gamut of iMessage effects is available on the Mac too—even if Apple’s desktop Messages app doesn’t make it apparent. If you want to send an iMessage with a dose of fireworks, for example, you can do so on the Mac just as…

  • How to Protect Your Student Laptop and Accounts From Hackers

    How to Protect Your Student Laptop and Accounts From Hackers

    Read full article: at LifeHacker Cyberattacks are a huge risk, and they’re on the rise. College students—especially those who are away from home, bringing their devices to class, or frequently connecting to public wifi—may be particularly vulnerable to hacks and cybercrime. Here’s how they can avoid becoming a victim of a cyberattack. Read more… Read…

  • How to Find All the Old Product Icons Apple Has Hidden in macOS

    How to Find All the Old Product Icons Apple Has Hidden in macOS

    Read full article: at LifeHacker As a lifelong Mac user, I always love learning about something hidden feature of my computer, such as the ability to change your mouse’s cursor color. So you can imagine my delight in stumbling upon this Reddit thread, where user OOF_V2 shared a hidden treasure trove of Apple product icons…

  • How to Force Restart a Frozen Apple Watch

    How to Force Restart a Frozen Apple Watch

    Read full article: at LifeHacker The Apple Watch is a great companion for your iPhone—but all great things have bad days, and the Apple Watch is no exception. Software bugs can make the watch slow to respond, and when they do, a quick restart is usually a good solution. However, sometimes the Apple Watch stops…

  • How to (Remotely) Help Your Family Members With Their New Tech

    How to (Remotely) Help Your Family Members With Their New Tech

    Read full article: at LifeHacker Holiday gifts mean new tech for all, and new tech for all means fresh “tech support” headaches for you! You know your friends and family are going to have issues with their devices and gadgets; it’s one thing to be able to help them in person, but if you live far…