Category: MacOS

Do you still need Zoom and Teams

Ah, Zoom and Microsoft Teams. These, along with FaceTime, were the unsung heroes of the pandemic, single-handedly keeping the world connected while we all huddled in our pajama bottoms. From awkwardly muted team meetings to the inevitable “You’re on mute” chorus, these platforms turned our living rooms into offices, classrooms, and social hubs. But now, …

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The Password App

Update Dec 8, 2024: Apple just released a plug in so Firefox users can have access to the passwords stored in the new Passwords app. This gives it even closer functionality to 1Password…see below. The plug in for Firefox can be found here. Once downloaded, launch Firefox and add the Extension following these steps: “Open …

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Making Safari better

More and more people are buying laptops these days and they have small screens – as well as other deficiencies that don’t make for ideal desktop computers. In addition to this, Apple have, seemingly, abandoned the 27 inch iMac so the biggest screen you can look forward to on a desktop is 24 inches. This …

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Web apps… no coding needed

Sonoma has only a few features above Ventura but one of the best is creating web apps. I know this sounds like you need long hair and a leather waistcoat to achieve but trust me, no programming skills are required. A web app, in this instance, is bottling up a web page into a single …

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Don’t suffer gmail in a browser

There is a lot of confusion surrounding the differences between Apple mail, googles own mail application and the gmail service and sadly this moves people to use applications they don’t need making it a jarring experience to say the very least. Essentially google and iCloud are the same service except one takes your privacy very …

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