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How to Enable Reader View in Safari Automatically on iPhone or iPad

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Do you like using Safari Reader View on the iPhone or iPad when reading a particular webpages articles or stories? Reader View in Safari can make webpages easier to read in some situations, and if you use the feature for some websites, or all of the web, you might appreciate enabling Automatic Reader View in Safari for iOS.

With this Automatic Reader View enabled in Safari for iOS, Safari will automatically enter into Reader Mode, either for specific website URLs as chosen, or for all web sites.

How to Enable Automatic Reader View in Safari for iPhone or iPad

Want to enable Reader View automatically, either on a particular website or for all websites? Here’s how to do that in iOS:

  1. Open Safari in iOS, then visit the website URL you want to use Automatic Reader View for
  2. Tap and hold on the Reader button in the URL bar at the top of the Safari screen

    3. How to enable Automatic Reader Mode in Safari for iOSr

  3. When the ‘Automatic Reader View’ option shows up, choose one of the following: “Use on (current domain)” or “Use on All Websites”

    4. How to enable Safari Automatic Reader mode in iOS

  4. Browse the web as usual with the settings in place

If you choose “Use on (current domain)” then anytime you load that particular website in Safari for iOS, Reader View in Safari will enable itself automatically, but only for that website domain.

If you choose “Use on All Websites” then every web site will load into Reader View automatically in Safari for iOS.

Most users will probably want to limit this feature to specific websites and domains that are either not optimized for their device or screen, or otherwise difficult to read for some other reason. That way every time such a website is visited, the Reader mode feature will trigger and legibility and readability should improve (remember you can customize the appearance of Safari Reader).

Automatic Reader View will use the last settings that were defined for the appearance of Safari Reader Mode, so if you want to change the text size, color theme, font face, or other aspects of the Safari Reader experience you can do so as described here and have those customizations carry over to the Automatic Reader mode too.

This is a particularly helpful feature for viewing webpages on the iPhone that are not mobile optimized or that don’t have a mobile website, since Safari Reader View tends to improve legibility in those situations by boosting font size and focusing on the webpages content.

How to Disable Automatic Reader View in Safari for iOS

If you had previously turned on Automatic Reader View and would now like to change that setting in iOS, here’s how to do so:

  1. Open Safari in iOS, then visit the specific website URL that you want to disable Automatic Reader View for
  2. Tap and hold the Reader button at the top of the Safari screen

    3. How to disable Automatic Reader View in Safari for iOS

  3. When the ‘Automatic Reader View’ options appear, choose one of the following: “Stop Using on (current domain)” or “All Websites”

    4. How to turn off automatic Reader View in Safari on iPhone or iPad

  4. Use Safari with the previously set Reader settings disabled

These settings obviously pertain to iOS Safari for the iPhone and iPad, but the feature exists on the Mac version of Safari as well, where it can also be set to activate on individual websites or all websites, and the Reader appearance customized as needed on the Mac too.

Safari Reader Mode has been around for a while and is really quite useful, even if you don’t use it for reading certain webpages it can be useful for other purposes like printing out webpage articles without ads and other extraneous page content.

Share your thoughts, experiences, and comments on Automatic Reader View in the comments below!

Source: OSX Daily

March 28, 2019 0 comment
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How to Stop Typing Periods Automatically with Double-Space on MacOS

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The default keyboard settings on modern Mac OS versions include a shortcut for typing periods quickly. This means that hitting the spacebar twice will insert a period automatically at the end of a sentence or word.

Automatically typing periods comes to the Mac from the iPhone and iPad world, and while some the period typing shortcut can be desirable for some Mac users, others may not like it as much. If you do not like the automatic period typing keyboard shortcut on the Mac, you can turn this feature off.

How to Disable Auto Period Typing Shortcut on Mac

  1. Go to the  Apple menu and choose ‘System Preferences’
  2. Select the “Keyboard” preference panel, then choose the “Text” tab
  3. Locate the setting for “Add period with double-space” and toggle the checkbox to the OFF position

    4. How to stop inserting periods automatically on Mac keyboard

  4. Exit System Preferences

Now when you hit the space bar twice, or type a double-space, a period will no longer be inserted automatically. Instead, to type a period you must manually hit the period key on the Mac keyboard.

For some Mac users this is entirely a matter of personal preference, but there are situations where this period typing shortcut can be problematic. For example, if a Mac keyboard is double-typing spaces at random, you may find that periods are being inserted erroneously while typing and where you don’t want them to be placed. Turning this setting off can resolve that situation.

This obviously applies to the Mac, but the period shortcut setting also exists in the iOS world, where you can turn off the automatic period typing on iPhone and iPad too.

The double-space period shortcut setting is the default on new macOS versions and with new Macs, but some users may have made the change manually to enable automatic word capitalization at the start of a new sentence, and inserting periods after double-spacing. Whether you like this setting on or off is going to be up to the user and how they type, and like all system settings you can easily change it again at any time.

Source: OSX Daily

March 27, 2019 0 comment
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How to Remove Emoji Button from Keyboard on iPhone and iPad

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Don’t want the Emoji button on the iOS keyboard and wish it were gone? You can remove the Emoji button from the keyboard on iPhone and iPad, and by doing so you are effectively turning off Emoji in iOS so that it can’t be typed, nor can the Emoji keyboard be accessed. Disabling the Emoji button from the iOS keyboard can be desirable for many reasons, particularly if you accidentally hit the Emoji button and find that annoying, or if you simply never use Emoji and want to get rid of the smiley face button on the keyboard of iPhone or iPad.

We’ll show you how to remove the Emoji button from the iPhone and iPad keyboard, and also how to return the Emoji functionality back to the iOS Keyboard if you decide you want the Emoji button back again.

Note that if you remove the Emoji button from iOS keyboard then you will not be able to type Emoji on the iPhone or iPad because there is no longer any way to access the Emoji keyboard, unless you reverse this settings change.

How to Turn Off Emoji & Disable Emoji Button on iOS Keyboard

To remove the Emoji button from the keyboard, you must disable and remove the Emoji keyboard from iOS in general. Here’s how this is done:

  1. Open the “Settings” app on iPhone or iPad

    2. Settings icon

  2. Go to “General” and then to “Keyboard”

    3. How to remove Emoji button from iOS Keyboard

  3. Choose “Keyboard”

    4. How to remove Emoji button from iOS Keyboard

  4. Tap the “Edit” button in the corner of Keyboard settings

    5. How to remove Emoji button from iOS Keyboard

  5. Now tap the (-) red minus button next to “Emoji”

    6. How to remove Emoji keyboard button from iOS on iPhone or iPad

  6. Tap on the “Delete” button next to Emoji

    7. Deleting Emoji keyboard removes emoji button from iOS keyboard

  7. Tap “Done” or exit Settings

Now if you open any app on iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch that allows you to type and shows a keyboard, like the Messages app, Notes, Pages, or anywhere else where typing in iOS is possible, you will find the Emoji button has been removed.

The Emoji button has been removed from iOS keyboard

By removing the Emoji keyboard, you no longer have the Emoji button on the iOS keyboard, which means you can’t type Emoji on the device. Currently there is no way to remove the Emoji button from the keyboard without also removing the entire Emoji keyboard itself, which basically disables Emoji completely on the iPhone or iPad (though anyone can continue to send you Emoji, and your iOS device will continue to render and show Emoji).

If you’re turning off the Emoji button on iOS keyboard because you are accidentally hitting it, or because you never use it, or because you find the keyboard too cluttered, you might also appreciate removing the microphone button from the iPhone and iPad keyboard too. If you remove both the Emoji button and microphone button from the iOS keyboard, the space bar takes up the available space, and for some users they may find that easier to type with.

How do I get Emoji button back on the iPhone or iPad Keyboard?

If you disabled the Emoji button and Emoji keyboard but decide you want that smiling face button back so you can type your favorite Emoji again, you can enable the Emoji keyboard on iPhone or iPad again easily with these instructions or by doing the following:

  1. Open the “Settings” app then go to “General” and “Keyboard”
  2. Choose “Keyboards” then “Add New Keyboard” and select “Emoji” to add, this will return the Emoji button to the iOS keyboard

The Emoji button on iPhone or iPad keyboard

You must re-add the Emoji keyboard to the iOS Keyboard settings in order to regain access to the Emoji button on the keyboard of an iPhone or iPad, as well as to regain access to the Emoji keyboard in iOS and the smiley face button.

The Emoji button is a smiley face icon on the iOS keyboard

Like basically all settings in iOS, these changes are easily reversed and adjusted at anytime.

Source: OSX Daily

March 26, 2019 0 comment
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How to Access iTunes Music Library in iTunes on Mac or Windows PC

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If you open iTunes and expect to access your local music library collection, you might be perplexed when you find that a music library is not immediately visible. Instead, launching modern versions of iTunes goes directly to the iTunes Store. Some iTunes users then attempt to access their iTunes music library by selecting the ‘Music’ dropdown menu but still are unable to find their local music library. Not to worry, if you can’t find your local music collection in iTunes, we’ll show you how to quickly access the local music library in iTunes on the Mac or Windows PC.


Note this tip is for accessing and seeing the full iTunes library within iTunes itself. This is not aiming to access iTunes music files which is discussed here if that’s what your objective is.

How to Access iTunes Music Library in iTunes on a Computer

  1. Open iTunes app
  2. Look near the top of the iTunes window and click on the ‘Library’ button (sometimes this is labeled as “My Music”)

    3. How to access Library in iTunes

  3. This will switch iTunes to the iTunes Library view rather than the iTunes Store

    4. Accessing iTunes library in iTunes

This may sound obvious to some Mac and Windows PC users, but after visiting with someone recently I learned they were convinced their iTunes Music Library had been deleted or vanished. In fact the iTunes Music Library was still there, but because iTunes opened directly to the Store and they kept using the pulldown menu to try and access Music, they stayed stuck in the iTunes Store and never found their actual music library within iTunes. Basically they were unable to find their iTunes Music because they were looking in the wrong part of the app, so don’t go for that menu item to find a library – the dropdown menu chooses the type of content seen (Music, Movies, etc) rather than the library itself:

Cant find iTunes music library because looking in wrong place

This might be a helpful tip for users who rely on iTunes to manage a local music library collection.

A similar difficulty for some iTunes users is when selecting an iPhone or iPad in iTunes, which can be counterintuitive or confusing for some people. Fortunately that is also quite simple. Sometimes simply learning how to do things reveals just how easy it is, even if the task is not initially obvious.

Older versions of iTunes defaulted to launching directly to a users local music library, but that behavior changed with modern iTunes releases which now default to opening directly to the iTunes Store instead.

Remember this is for interacting with an iTunes Library in iTunes itself. If you need to gain access to the actual audio files from iTunes you can follow these instructions to find iTunes files, or you can simply navigate to the iTunes library location as discussed here.

Source: OSX Daily

March 24, 2019 0 comment
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How to Check AirPods Battery Life from iPhone

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Wondering what the battery level of AirPods? There are a few easy ways to check the remaining battery life of AirPods, and we’ll show you a few ways for how to quickly determine how much battery life you have left on AirPods that are synced with an iOS device.

How to Check AirPods Battery by Opening AirPods Case Near iPhone

The easiest way to check battery life on AirPods is to simply put the AirPods in their charging case, then open the AirPods case when you’re near the iPhone or iPad that is synced and connected to the AirPods.

Check AirPods battery life from iPhone

Simply opening the lid on the AirPods charging case when they’re holding the AirPods will make an AirPods charge status screen appear on the iPhone, indicating the battery percentage level and charge of the AirPods.

This approach shows the battery life of both AirPods and the AirPods charger case.

How to Check AirPods Battery Life from Today Widget

You can also check the charge status of your AirPods with charging case with the Batteries widget on your iOS device. The charge for your case appears only when at least one AirPod is in the case.

How to see AirPods battery level and battery life in Batteries widget of iOS

You can also see the battery life of Apple Pencil at this widget, along with battery level of Apple Watch and see battery of other connected devices in the Batteries Today widget.

On your iPhone, open your case lid with your AirPods inside and hold your case close to your device. Wait a few seconds to see the charge status of your AirPods with charging case.

Other Ways to Get AirPods Battery Life Level

You can get a general idea of AirPods battery life by placing the AirPods in their case and looking at the internal charger light. If the light is green, it means the case is charged, whereas if the light is orange, it means the less than a full charge remains.

You can check AirPods battery life level from Apple Watch.

You can get battery life remaining from Siri of an iOS device, including connected AirPods, or Apple Watch.

Macs can check Bluetooth device battery level from the Bluetooth menu in Mac OS if they setup AirPods to work with the Mac.

Do you know of another method to check battery life remaining of AirPods? Share with us in the comments below!

Source: OSX Daily

March 23, 2019 0 comment
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How to Change Screen Time Password on iPhone or iPad

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Using Screen Time in iOS allows for time limits to be set on app usage on an iPhone or iPad, even allowing for time limits on entire app categories like social networking. Setting up Screen Time requires a passcode to be set to access the Screen Time settings, and there are certainly times where an iPhone or iPad user may need to change the Screen Time password in iOS. Maybe someone sneakily watched you enter the passcode and is now entering it themselves to override an app limit, or maybe you’re simply changing your passcode used in general. Whatever the reason, changing the Screen Time password in iOS is easy.

How to Change a Screen Time Passcode in iOS

  1. Open the ‘Settings’ app in iOS

    2. Settings icon

  2. Scroll down to tap on “Screen Time”

    3. How to change screen time password

  3. Within Screen Time settings, scroll down and tap on “Change Screen Time Passcode”

    4. How to change Screen Time Passcode iPhone

  4. Confirm that you want to change the Screen Time Passcode in iOS

    5. How to change Screen Time Passcode

  5. Enter the old passcode, then enter the new passcode twice for the change to take effect

    6. How to change Screen Time Passcode

Don’t forget the Screen Time passcode, without it you won’t be able to make changes to Screen Time, set limits on apps and app categories, remove or adjust Screen Time settings, or even disable the Screen Time passcode if needed, so remembering the password you set is important.

Other Screen Time management options are available. For example you can delete Screen Time limits for specific apps or categories in iOS if you set one up and decide it’s no longer needed.

You can also disable Screen Time on iPhone or iPad completely, which requires knowing the set Screen Time password to do so, so if you changed it recently you’d use that new passcode to accomplish this.

Whether you use Screen Time or not likely depends on how you use your iPhone or iPad, and if you’re managing multiple devices. Many parents and caregivers of kids use Screen Time limits for parental controls and app restrictions, putting limits on things like social networking, games, videos and movies, and other activities that can be a good idea to limit the use of. But used well, even adults, kids, and virtually anyone else can find the feature helpful for offering some enforced quota on time wasting activity. For example if you find yourself wasting time on social media then you can use Screen Limits to set a time limit for social networking use – you can always override the limit at any time, so it can serve as a nice reminder to how often you’re using a particular type of app or service.

Another helpful tip for some users is keep an eye on screen time to watch what they’re doing on their device, or the device of another user. iOS even helpfully sends you a weekly report of screen time activity, but turning off Screen Time Weekly Reports could be desirable if you have no interest in seeing a weekly activity overview of app usage on an iPhone or iPad.

Feel free to share your thoughts or experiences with Screen Time in iOS in the comments below!

Source: OSX Daily

March 22, 2019 0 comment
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How to Format Emails on Mail for Mac the Easy Way

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Want to format your emails for some extra style and pizazz on the Mac? If you want to change the style and format of emails in Mail for Mac to customize the appearance of any email composition, forward, or reply, you’ll find there’s an optional and handy email formatting toolbar that can be made visible and used at any time in Mail on the Mac.

The Mail Format bar will give you controls to change and set email font family, font size, font colors, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, align left, align center, align right, insert bulleted and numbered lists, indent and outdent, and more.

How to Format Emails on Mac with the Mail Format Bar

  1. Open Mail for Mac
  2. Open any email compose window, either a new email composition, a reply, or forward
  3. Look at the top of the mail composition window and click the [A] button

    4. How to show and use font formatting options in Mail for Mac

  4. The email formatting panel will appear at the top of the email composition window

    5. How to format emails on Mail for Mac

  5. Stylize and format your email as desired and send it as usual

    6. Using the email formatting options on Mail for Mac

The Mac Mail format bar options are significant, looking from left to right at the format bar and using those tools can allow you to change the format, style, and appearance of emails with the following formatting options:

  • font family
  • font size
  • font color
  • font background color
  • bold text
  • italic text
  • underline text
  • strikethrough text
  • align left
  • align center
  • align right
  • insert bulleted and numbered lists
  • indent and outdent

Many of these email format options also include associated keyboard shortcuts too, like command+B for bold and command+I for italics.

You can stylize and format the appearance of an entire email by adjusting the settings right away, or you can stylize and format email appearances by manually choosing the format options as you compose an email.

You can also select specific text or characters and stylize those independently from other text in the email window.

Using mail formatting options will require the message to be sent as rich text, so if you’re using plain text for emails you would need to convert the email message to rich text.

If you’re attempting to format an email that is set as plain text, the Mail app will ask if you want to convert the plain text email to rich text.

Convert a plain text email to rich text on Mail for Mac as necessary to use mail format options

You can convert an individual email from plain text to rich text without it changing the general email composition setting for plain text.

It’s probably worth pointing out that this is intended to stylize and format specific email options, and is not intended to be used as a method to change all of Mail fonts or their font size. If you do want to change the Mac Mail font and font size you can do so with these instructions however, which can be used to improve readability of emails on the Mac client.

Source: OSX Daily

March 21, 2019 0 comment
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How to Use AirPods with a Mac

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AirPods are the incredibly convenient wireless headphones available from Apple that setup easily with an iPhone or iPad, but many AirPods users will likely want to use their AirPods with a Mac too.

Setting up AirPods to work with a Mac is usually very simple, made especially easy if the AirPods are already configured to work with an iPhone, but you can manually connect the two if need be as well. We’ll show you how to easily setup and use AirPods with a Mac.

How to Set Up AirPods with Mac the Easy Way

If you have already setup AirPods with iPhone or iPad, and you use the same Apple ID and iCloud account on that iOS device as you do the Mac, and the Mac has Bluetooth enabled, you can likely use the super easy setup process:

  • While wearing AirPods, pull down the Sound / Volume menu on the Mac and choose “AirPods” from the list of sound output devices

Connect AirPods to Mac the easy way from Sound menu

You can also usually find the AirPods under the Mac Bluetooth menu as well, where you can choose to connect the Mac to the AirPods that way too.

How to Connect AirPods to Mac Manually

If you have not setup the AirPods with an iPhone that is using the same Apple ID as the Mac, or if you don’t have an iOS device, then you can also setup and connect AirPods to Mac through the Bluetooth settings:

  1. Make sure the AirPods are charged, then place AirPods in the AirPods charging case and close the lid
  2. On the Mac, go to the  Apple menu and choose “System Preferences”
  3. Select the “Bluetooth” preference panel and make sure that Bluetooth is turned on and enabled
  4. Open the lid of the AirPods charging case
  5. Press and hold the button on the back of the AirPods Case until you see light flash white
  6. Wait a moment for the AirPods to appear in the Bluetooth Device list, then click on “Connect” to sync AirPods to the Mac *

    7. Connect AirPods to Mac with Bluetooth

* The AirPods will show up as “AirPods” or “Name’s AirPods” or whatever else they are called if you renamed them from iOS.

After the AirPods are connected to the Mac, sound output from the Mac will go to the AirPods as long as the AirPods are in use, remain synced, and sufficiently charged of course.

Troubleshooting AirPods & Mac Issues

Either of the above Volume or Bluetooth methods for connecting and using AirPods with a Mac should work without incident, but if you encounter repeated failures and you know that other Bluetooth devices are working fine with the Mac, then Resetting AirPods might be helpful as a troubleshooting step.

Verifying that the Mac has Bluetooth enabled is also worthwhile, and sometimes rebooting the Mac can be helpful too.

If Bluetooth isn’t working on the Mac at all, sometimes resetting the Bluetooth hardware module on the Mac can resolve such issues.

Finally, it’s worth mentioning that AirPods require a minimum Mac OS version of macOS Sierra (10.12) or later to work on a Mac, though most Mac users will likely meet that OS requirement.

Disconnecting or Removing AirPods from the Mac

You can disconnect AirPods from the Mac at anytime by going to the Bluetooth menu, finding airPods, then choosing ‘Disconnect’.

Much like you can remove any other Bluetooth Device from the Mac, you can also remove the AirPods from the Mac in the same way by targeting the AirPods from the Bluetooth settings.

You can connect multiple Bluetooth devices to the same Mac, including different AirPods, headphones, speakers, and other accessories, but note that you’ll want to change the active audio output device from the Sound or Bluetooth menu if doing so.

Source: OSX Daily

March 20, 2019 0 comment
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How to Delete a Virtual Machine from VirtualBox

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Finished with a virtual machine and you want to delete it from VirtualBox? Maybe you setup a VM you no longer need, or cloned an OS VM and want to remove it, or perhaps you’re simply aiming to free up disk space by removing virtual machines from VirtualBox, whatever the reason it’s a simple process to delete a virtual machine from VirtualBox.

The instructions we’ll cover here work for completely removing an OS and deleting the associated virtual machine from within VirtualBox on Mac OS, Windows, and Linux. We’ll also show you how to delete a virtual machine from VirtualBox by using the command line.

How to Completely Remove an OS and Delete a Virtual Machine in VirtualBox

To completely delete any virtual machine from VirtualBox on Mac, Windows, or Linux, simply do the following:

  1. Open VirtualBox and go to the VM VirtualBox Manager screen
  2. Select the virtual machine and OS you want to delete (quit the VM if it’s currently active first)
  3. Right-click on the virtual machine name in the list and choose “Remove”, or optionally pull down the “Machine” menu and choose “Remove”

    4. How to delete a virtual machine in VirtualBox

  4. To completely delete the operating system and virtual machine from VirtualBox, choose “Delete all files” *

    5. How to delete a virtual machine from VirtualBox

  5. Repeat with other virtual machines to delete them as needed

* If you choose “Remove only” than the virtual machine is simply removed from the VirtualBox VM manager, but none of the actual files or associated VM, OS, VDI, or anything else is deleted. Thus if you actually want to delete the VM and associated files, choose ‘Delete all files’

How to Delete a Virtual Machine from VirtualBox by Command Line

If you prefer to use the command line, you can also completely delete a virtual machine from VirtualBox from a terminal. To use this approach, launch the command line (Terminal in MacOS) and then use the VBoxManage command tool with the following syntax: (note the flag –delete has two dashes)

VBoxManage unregistervm --delete "Name of Virtual Machine"

Deleting a VM from VirtualBox by command line is very thorough and removes all associated virtual hard disk image files, saved states, xml files, backups, VM logs, and all associated directories with the target VM to delete.

It doesn’t really matter if you delete the virtual machine from the command line or from the VirtualBox application directly, both get the job done.

Deleting a virtual machine from VirtualBox will free up any storage space that was taken up by that VM and associated OS, including the associated VDI, VMDK, VHD or HDD files. Because virtual machines can be quite large, this is often many gigabytes in size.

Note this is aimed at deleting a virtual machine within VirtualBox but otherwise preserving other VMs and VirtualBox itself, it’s not attempting to remove or uninstall VirtualBox as an application though you can of course do that if needed too with these instructions.

Virtual machines offer an easy way to run multiple operating systems at the same time, which is why they’re frequently used in development environments for testing with various operating systems. This particular article is obviously focused on VirtualBox, but there are other VM software packages available too including VMWare and Parallels.

VirtualBox is particularly appealing to many users not only because it’s powerful and cross platform compatible able to run on Mac, Windows, and Linux, but also because it’s free. VirtualBox can do everything from run Windows 10 in a VM all the way back to old versions of Windows with old Internet Explorer versions, or Ubuntu Linux or another Linux distribution or unix flavor, and even Mac OS X (though if you want to virtualize MacOS it’s easier to do so with Parallels) and other operating systems too.

If the general topic of virtualization appeals to you, check out our other virtual machine posts here where you can find tons of tutorials on running a wide range of operating systems in VirtualBox.

Source: OSX Daily

March 19, 2019 0 comment
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How to Change Spotify Music Quality for Streaming on iPhone, iPad, Android

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Spotify defaults to automatically adjusting music quality when streaming songs. That default music quality setting is recommended for most Spotify users, but some audiophiles may like to manually adjust the streaming music quality in Spotify to be either lower or higher as desired. As you’ll see it’s fairly easy to make changes to Spotify music quality on iPhone, iPad, or Android.


Note that making changes to streaming music quality can dramatically impact data usage, so if you’re on a limited internet data plan you might want to take that into consideration. If in doubt, maintain the default setting.

How to Change Streaming Music Quality in Spotify

Here is how you can manually adjust music quality streaming settings in Spotify, this is done from iOS but the setting is the same on Android:

  1. Open the Spotify app and go to “Your Library”
  2. Tap the “Settings” button in the corner, it looks like a gear icon

    3. How to change Spotify music quality for streaming

  3. Choose “Music Quality”

    4. How to change Spotify music quality for streaming

  4. Select the streaming music quality you’d like to use:
  • Automatic (Recommended) – the default setting, this adjusts the music quality automatically based on bandwidth availability and other considerations
  • Low – equivalent to 24 kbps
  • Normal – 96 kbit/s
  • High – 160 kbit/s
  • Very High – 320 kbit/s

How to change Spotify music quality for streaming

  • Return to listen to Spotify as usual with the new music quality setting in place

    • The higher the music quality setting, the better music will sound, but at the expense of increased bandwidth consumption and data usage. The lower the music quality setting, the worse music will sound, but at much lower bandwidth and data use.

    Most Spotify users are best off by leaving the setting the default option as “Automatic” so that the music quality will scale up and down as needed, but some users may prefer to change the setting directly. Using the ‘low’ setting can reduce bandwidth use considerably and be fine for most spoken audio, podcasts, and similar types of audio, whereas the same low setting can make music sound less than ideal. On the opposite settings end, the “Very High” streaming setting will make audio sound about as it can in Spotify, but at a considerable cost to data usage, so for many people the ‘very high’ setting would only be appropriate for a wi-fi connection or unlimited bandwidth scenario, like if you’re streaming streaming to a Sonos speaker or other external speaker at a home or office without bandwidth constraints.

    In the same Music Quality settings screen of Spotify, you can also change the music quality for downloaded music, which may be more appropriate if you want a higher quality music setting since it won’t continuously stream and re-download the audio.

    This obviously applies to Spotify, but you can make similar changes to enable High Quality streaming in Music app for iPhone and iPad too.

    Source: OSX Daily

    March 17, 2019 0 comment
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