In this quick tip, Cruz1996 gives us a quick demonstration of how to use Apple’s support app for iOS to connect with an Apple representative to help you troubleshoot a problem with your i-device.
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In this quick tip, Igna Triay shows us how to Pause an Audio or Movie Recording Using QuickTime Player On the Mac. Although this process is very straightforward, there is a step that might not be obvious to some.
In this quick tip, Lisa Salinger gives us a demonstration of Abiding Radio, an iOS app that provides easy access to various streams of sacred music. Quoting from its app store description, "Abiding Radio airs classic hymns of the faith and the best of today's conservative, sacred, and traditional Christian instrumental music."
In this podcast, Igna Triay demonstrates advanced audio editing in Ferrite Recording Studio for iOS.
In this podcast, Scott Davert demonstrates how to move apps around your various home screens with a braille display only using iOS 10 and higher. The process is the same for all displays that have a Perkins style keyboard paired with an iDevice. Moving apps to different pages, in to folders, and out of folders are covered.
Lisa Salinger walks you through enabling and disabling this feature on the Series 2 Apple Watch.
In this quick tip, Jamie Pauls takes us through the various options for how VoiceOver reports rows added in a table on macOS. These options, found in VoiceOver Utility > Verbosity > Announcements, allow you to choose whether VoiceOver speaks the number of rows added to a table in focus, plays a tone when a row is added, or provides no feedback at all.
Using the Universal Clipboard to Copy and Paste Text, Images and Videos Between iOS Devices and Macs
In this episode, David Woodbridge demonstrates the Universal Clipboard facility available on devices running iOS 10 or later, and macOS Sierra or later. If you now copy text, images, or video to the clipboard on one device, it should be automatically available to paste on any other device that uses the same Apple ID.
Note that for Universal Clipboard to work your device must support the Continuity feature and have Hand-off enabled. For…
In this podcast, David Woodbridge introduces us to taptic time-telling. You configure this in the Watch app on your iPhone. When it's on, quickly double-tap the watch face when it's locked to feel the full time, or triple tap for just the minutes. You can choose from a range of vibration patterns that will tell you the time. Think TimeBuzz, but now built in to watchOS.…
In this podcast, Chris Snyder demonstrates how to set up and watch audio described programming using the ABC app for iOS.. Note that there is a commercial before the beginning of each show, but this was eliminated from the podcast to save time and copyright violations.
In this podcast, Scott Davert shares some tips on how to use the native iOS Mail app more effectively. These include selectively enabling Smart Mailboxes; which can be particularly useful when you have multiple email accounts.
In this episode, Alex Hall shows us how to look up the definition of a word using Spotlight in macOS.
To do this, press Command-Space from anywhere in macOS to open Spotlight, and type the word you want defined. Then press Command-L, followed by Return, and a window with the definition of the word you searched for will be displayed.
In this episode of his introductory series, Thomas Domville discusses and explores the background app refresh settings in iOS. These settings are used to control what apps are allowed to run in the background and carry out routine tasks (such as updating your Twitter timeline or retrieving weather data).
In this podcast, Amber shows us how to find and use the animated emoji available on the Apple Watch.
In this episode of his introductory series, Thomas Domville discusses and explores the About section found in the iOS Settings.
In this episode of his introductory series, Thomas Domville discusses and explores the Personal Hotspot feature available on the iPhone or iPad (Wi-Fi + Cellular models) which lets you share your cellular data connection with other devices.
In this podcast, David Woodbridge walks us through the process of buying and watching movies and TV shows on the fourth-generation Apple TV.
In this episode, Jonathan Simeone shows us how to add and remove items from the Finder sidebar on macOS.
The Finder sidebar is a list of folders and devices that can be quickly accessed from any Finder window or open and save dialog in macOS. You can choose which categories of items appear in the sidebar by choosing Finder > Settings, (or pressing Command-Comma) clicking the Sidebar button in the toolbar, and selecting the…
In this podcast, David Woodbridge discusses and demonstrates Home Sharing on the fourth-generation Apple TV.
Home Sharing lets you share and stream content from your computer’s iTunes library to other computers, iOS devices, and Apple TVs.
In this podcast, David Woodbridge shows us how to update to a newer version of tvOS when an update has been released.
In this podcast, David Woodbridge shows us how to configure and operate the Accessibility Shortcut that can be accessed using the Siri remote with the fourth-generation Apple TV.
In this podcast, David Woodbridge walks us through how to check the battery level of the Siri remote that comes with the new fourth-generation Apple TV.
In this podcast, Jonathan Simeone shares a tip for Mac users on how to convert PDF to text using Automator.
In this podcast, David Woodbridge introduces us to the App Store that’s available on the new fourth-generation Apple TV. He shows us how to browse, search and install apps.
In this podcast, Jonathan Simeone discusses and demonstrates how to use the ‘Add to iTunes’ folder to quickly and easily import content into your Library.
To make things even easier, Jonathan shares a tip to use Automator and Services on Mac OS X to move files to this folder.