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Category: Mac

The iPhone’s Spooky Action

Well, its not quiet limited to the iPhone, but it made for a good title anyway. Are you are still emailing yourself links, messaging yourself photos, or—heaven forbid—manually re-typing a tracking number from your phone onto your laptop? You are? Well you are working way harder than you need to and missing out on one …

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You have more than one clipboard*

*If you’ve updated to Tahoe. Remember the 80s? Big hair, shoulder pads, and a single, solitary clipboard on the MacPlus. If you wanted to move three things, you did it three times. Copy. Paste. Copy. Paste. Copy. Paste. It was a digital dark age, a barbaric wasteland of inefficiency and that was the state of …

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Time Capsule is dead

Once upon a time, Apple sold a magical white box called the Time Capsule. It backed up your Mac wirelessly, looked like a minimalist loaf of bread, and it was one of the most elegant backup solutions in the tech industry. In fact, even in its dying days, it still is. But now, in 2025, …

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The Sorting Hat no one asked for

Apple Mail has always been the quiet workhorse of macOS and iOS. It didn’t try to be flashy. It didn’t throw pop-ups in your face. – it just went about sorting your email without fanfare. It just delivered your email in a nice, boring list—like a responsible adult. But then came macOS Sequoia and iOS …

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Watch out for Fake CAPTCHAS

You’re browsing a sketchy website—maybe looking for a firmware update, maybe trying to stream Downton Abbey without paying—and suddenly, a CAPTCHA pops up. “I’m not a robot,” it says. You click the box. You feel validated. You are human. But then… your browser redirects, your CPU spikes, and your inbox starts getting emails from a …

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