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How to Set Gmail to Delete Instead of Archive in Mail app for iPhone & iPad

 Do you use a Gmail account with the stock Mail app on your iPhone or iPad? If so, you may have noticed that whenever you try to delete an email or send it to Trash by using the swipe left gesture, you get an “Archive” option instead with Gmail accounts. If you’d rather be deleting those Gmail emails in Mail app, you can change the Gmail settings to address this issue on iPhone and iPad. ★★ Full Article ★★

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ProTruckDriver
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How to Remove Linked Devices for Apple Purchases on PC & Mac

 Do you sign in to your Apple ID on a lot of different devices, let’s say your iPhone, several Mac’s, a few Windows machines, an old PC, an older iPhone or iPad or two, or even an Android device? If so, you may want to check out how many devices are associated with your account, and remove any device that you longer use or own. ★★ Full Article ★★

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Data Privacy Week 2022: What Is Your Convenience Worth?Blog

January 24-28th is Data Privacy Week! Given the ever evolving state of data privacy, this is a great opportunity to discuss how we can protect ourselves against data breaches and identity theft. Originally, this tradition started as a day observed on January 28th as a result of a European Council meeting on the subject in 1981. This was “an educational initiative focused on raising awareness among businesses as well as users about the importance of protecting the privacy of their personal information online, particularly in the context of social networking.” (Wikipedia)Clearly the people who started this initiative made an extremely accurate prediction: The breadth and usage of the internet would expand rapidly and data privacy laws would fail to keep up with the times. While there have certainly been some recent advancements in data privacy laws such as GDPR it remains true that we have a long way to go before we, as a society, can consider our personal data adequately legally protect

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How to blur out your home in Apple Maps and Google Maps

 Tim Cook’s plush home in Palo Alto, California, has been blurred out inside Apple Maps and Google Maps — likely because of an alleged stalking incident. If you enter his address, you’ll see nothing but a gigantic, pixelated wall.But this kind of digital scrubbing isn’t reserved for top CEOs and celebrities. In fact, anyone can quite easily get their own home hidden from online maps. All you need to do is ask Apple and Google to conceal the locations. We’ll show you how. ★★ Full Article ★★

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5 months ago
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How to Save Images from Chrome to iPhone or iPad

If you use the Chrome web browser on iPhone or iPad, you may come to a situation where you want to save an image from the web to your device. This is super easy, and if you’re familiar with saving images from Safari to your iPhone or iPad you’ll find the procedure is already second nature to you. ★★ Full Article ★★

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5 months ago
ProTruckDriver
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How to Manually Select Carrier Network on iPhone

Is your iPhone not connecting to your network provider automatically? Perhaps, you just off an international flight and your iPhone is simply not detecting any available networks? In such cases, manual network selection may be required to access cellular services once again. By default, network selection is completely automatic on iPhones and it works just fine most of the time. However, sometimes when you exit Airplane mode, your iPhone may show “No Service” after looking for a cellular signal. Moreover, if you’re traveling to a foreign country, you may need to first check the network providers that your carrier has partnered with for international roaming and then manually switch to that network upon arrival. ★★ Full Article ★★ 

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ProTruckDriver
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How to Hum to Search Songs with Google

Ever had a song stuck in your head you don’t know the words to? Don’t know the lyrics of a song quite enough to find it on the web by just typing the lyrics? Google has a solution for you. The Google Search app can identify a song by your humming or even whistling, making it easier to discover new music. This can be done right on your iPhone or iPad. ★★ Full Article ★★

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5 months ago
ProTruckDriver
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37 Zoom Keyboard Shortcuts for Mac

If you’re living in a world of Zoom Meetings and video conferences, you may want to familiarize yourself with the many keyboard shortcuts available for Zoom on Mac. With keystrokes, you’ll be able to join and start meetings, mute and unmute your audio, start and stop your video, start screen sharing, view participants, raise and lower virtual hands, increase and decrease the size of the chat window, and so much more.Ready to become a Zoom keyboard shortcut master on the Mac? Let’s check out a comprehensive list of available keyboard commands and keystrokes for the Zoom app for MacOS. ★★ Full Article ★★

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ProTruckDriver
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Run a New Terminal Command Directly from the Dock on Mac

Need to run a Terminal command as fast as possible? You can do so right from the Dock with this neat trick for Mac.You must have the Terminal application open and running, available in the Mac Dock for this trick to work. The rest is super simple. ★★ Full Article ★★

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ProTruckDriver
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How to Batch Convert HEIC to JPG (Mac & Windows PC)

Have a bunch of HEIC files you want to batch convert to JPG? Whether you transferred a bunch of photos from iPhone or iPad to a Mac or PC only to realize there could be compatibility issues, or if you downloaded photos shared by someone else and they’re in the HEIC format, you may be wondering how you can bulk convert all the HEIC images to a more compatible image format like JPG. There are several ways to do this, but one of the easiest is with the help of a free app. ★★ Full Article ★★

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5 months ago
ProTruckDriver
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How to Share Your Watch Face from Apple Watch

Did you know that you can share a completely customized Apple Watch face with someone, whether one of your friends or family members? This allows them to use your exact watch face without having to go through all the customization by themselves. Apple provides plenty of customization options for most of the watch faces that are currently available for the Apple Watch. You can personalize it to your liking by adjusting the color, changing the dial-style, and even adding the complications that fit your use case. However, this process may be complicated for someone who’s not super tech-savvy. To make things easier, Apple has given users the option to send watch faces to their contacts, and as long as you are running watchOS 7 or later you’ll have this ability. ★★ Full Article ★★

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ProTruckDriver
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How to Use Zoom Virtual Backgrounds on iPhone & iPad

Zoom is a popular video conferencing solution that allows people to participate in remote meetings, online classes, or even just social events. One of the fun ways it stands out from the rest of the video chat competition is by letting users change their backgrounds while they’re in a video call. The virtual background feature that Zoom has to offer allows you to display an image as your background during a Zoom meeting. This is extremely helpful in cases where your room is just a mess or if you’re having privacy concerns and don’t want other people in the meeting to figure out where you are. Masking the actual background using Zoom is a fairly straightforward procedure on an iOS device.Interested in trying this feature out during your next Zoom meeting? Consider yourself lucky, because in this article, we’ll be discussing exactly how you can use Zoom virtual backgrounds on both the iPhone & iPad. ★★ Full Article ★★

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How to Change Virtual Background in Google Meet

Have you been using Google Meet for making video calls with your colleagues or friends? Want to customize your Google Meet experience a bit by changing your virtual background when you’re in a video chat? Not everyone has the most ideal setting for video calls, whether it’s a busy home office or a less than tidiest room. If your room or workplace could be a distraction or unflattering, you can hide it with the help of custom backgrounds. You can change your background to literally any image you want if you’re having privacy concerns and don’t want other people in the meeting to figure out where you are. ★★ Full Article ★★  

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How to clean your Apple Polishing Cloth without ruining it

If you have to spend $19 on Apple’s fancy Polishing Cloth, you should know how to properly look after it so that it doesn’t get ruined. You can’t just throw it in the washing machine with your mucky laundry when it starts to get dirty.Fortunately, Apple has now provided official instructions on keeping the Polishing Cloth clean. Here’s what you need to know. ★★ Full Article ★★

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How to Enable “Hey Siri” on Mac

Mac users can enable “Hey Siri” on their computer, allowing for simple voice activation of the virtual assistant. Much like Hey Siri for iPhone and iPad, or Apple Watch, when Hey Siri is enabled on the Mac you can interact with Siri entirely with voice commands and without needing to click or tap on anything to activate it. Just say “Hey Siri” followed by a command, and Siri on the Mac will activate and respond. This walkthrough will show you how to enable Hey Siri on a Mac for voice activation of the digital assistant. ★★ Full Article ★★

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ProTruckDriver
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How to Set a Timer on Mac

Setting a timer on the Mac is pretty easy, though you’ll be forgiven if you assumed there would be a dedicated timer feature within the clock app of MacOS, as there is in the iOS and iPadOS world. It turns out that a timer functionality is not yet part of the clock app or clock widget on the Mac, but that doesn’t mean you can’t easily set a timer. Instead, setting a timer on a Mac is accomplished with Siri. We’ll show you how. ★★ Full Article ★★

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How to Cancel Automatic Install of iOS & iPadOS Updates

You may already know that iOS and iPadOS will attempt to automatically install iOS and iPadOS system software updates to your devices. But not everyone wants to use this feature all the time. If you accidentally scheduled an overnight software update on your iPhone or iPad, you may be looking to cancel this automatic update, whether you don’t want your device to be interrupted at night, or whether you just want to wait on the update or install it manually yourself later. Thankfully, you can cancel this iOS or iPadOS update by tweaking your update settings. Read on to learn how you can cancel automatic installation of iOS and iPadOS software updates on your iPhone and iPad. ★★ Full Article ★★

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5 months ago
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How to fix a missing Wi-Fi entry in macOS

macOS treats networks connections as entries in the Network preference pane. When you add a hardware connection, like an ethernet port that’s part of a Thunderbolt dock, the preference list should automatically update to include it. But readers find that sometimes entries disappear. This is particularly common with Wi-Fi for reasons that aren’t apparent. ★★ Full Article ★★

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ProTruckDriver
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How to Pair a Bluetooth Trackpad, Mouse, & Keyboard with iPad

Until somewhat recently the idea of pairing a Bluetooth trackpad, mouse, or keyboard with an iPad is something that would have had people looking very confused indeed. But we live in exciting times, and all modern iPad devices running modern iPadOS versions have proper pointer support for trackpad and mouse, and full support for keyboards, complete with many keyboard shortcuts and handy tricks. ★★ Full Article ★★

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Webroot  anywhere  latest update 9.0.31.84 is causing my 4 pc’s not to go to the web an one drive will not sign in.

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Thunderbolt 3 vs Thunderbolt 4 and the M1 Max and M1 Pro Macs

Author: OWC LarryTech Tips posted on Jan. 13, 2022 The announcement of the new M1Pro and M1Max Apple computers have raised some confusion around the already slightly confusing difference between Thunderbolt 3 vs Thunderbolt 4. So we thought it would be a good idea to clear up some of that confusion. ★★ Full Article ★★

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Today in Apple history: Macintosh Plus brings big changes to Mac

By Luke Dormehl • 8:45 am, January 16, 2022January 16, 1986: Apple introduces the Macintosh Plus, its third Mac model and the first to be released after Steve Jobs was forced out of the company the previous year.The Mac Plus boasts an expandable 1MB of RAM and a double-sided 800KB floppy drive. And it’s the first Macintosh to include a SCSI port, which serves as the main way of attaching a Mac to other devices (at least until Apple abandons the tech on the iMac G3 upon Jobs’ return). ★★ Full Article ★★

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ProTruckDriver
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The M1 chip and beyond: Everything you need to know about Apple’s homegrown Mac chips

The present and future of Apple silicon on the Mac. By Roman LoyolaSenior Editor, Macworld Jan 16, 2022 1:00 am PSTMacs have undergone a big change since last June. Announced at WWDC 2020, Apple is switching its internal architecture from one that uses Intel CPUs, third-party graphics processors, and other parts, to the company’s own “system on a chip.” The first Apple silicon SoC for Macs is called the M1. That chips was followed up by the M1 Pro and M1 Max.It’s a big step for Apple and the Mac. But what does it mean for you? In this article, we cover frequently asked questions about Apple’s system on a chip, what it means to the user, how it affects what software you can use, and how fast it really is. We will regularly update this article with news, reviews, testing, and releases, so continue to check back. ★★ Full Article ★★

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Intel, AMD, and Nvidia want to beat Apple silicon. Here’s why they won’t

Chip companies can tout benchmarks all day, but Apple has an advantage they don't: Decades of macOS optimization.By Dan Moren, Contributor, Macworld Jan 16, 2022 5:30 am PST Once upon a time, you could watch a keynote presentation from any major computer chip company and rest easy in the confidence that the name “Apple” would never pass the lips of any presenter. The message always seemed to be, as per the classic Mad Men meme, “I don’t think of you at all.”But oh how the tables have turned. With the transition to Apple silicon well underway, and the debut of the high-powered M1 Pro and M1 Max chips last summer, major players in the silicon market are hastening to not only mention Apple, but to prove how much better their latest products are than that computer company that nobody used to care about. This past week’s Consumer Electronics Show was a news cavalcade for the likes of Intel, AMD, and Nvidia, all of whom took their time to reassure the vendors that rely on them that, yes, the

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How to Use Private MAC Address on Apple Watch

 Do you frequently connect to multiple Wi-Fi networks from your Apple Watch, say at work, school, coffee shops, airports, or other networks that aren’t yours? If so, you may want to safeguard your privacy by using private MAC addresses for the public Wi-Fi networks you connect to. Much like you can do so on iPhone and iPad, you can use a feature to randomize the MAC hardware address of your Apple Watch when connecting to wi-fi networks.  For some quick background, when you connect to any Wi-Fi network using any device, the device needs to identify itself to the network using a MAC address. Since the same MAC address is usually used as you switch between different Wi-Fi connections, network operators and observers can easily track your activity and access your location over time. Fortunately, Apple has addressed this issue with their recent major software updates across all their devices including watchOS 7 for Apple Watch.If you’re a privacy buff, read on to learn how you can enable an

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