This is Sandy Foster with a little tip to try to make life easier for some of us. Have you ever gone into your Mac’s System Preferences and had to figure out which row was hiding a particular preference? And who decided how to organize the categories, anyway? If you hate scouring the icons for […]
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Tiny Tip – How to Text to Android Phones from Your Mac
Two responses from Mac to Android — One succeeds, one fails We all know the struggle of the blue-bubble people vs. the green-bubble people in Messages. You love your Android friends, and they may even be family. There’s all the stress of how threads get splintered and people get left out because of the blue/green […]
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Tiny Tip – Mark Up Emails on iPad or iPhone without a 3rd Party App
Last year I answered a Dumb Question from Rod Simmons on whether it was possible to mark up emails on an iPad. In those instructions, I explained how to get an email into PDF format and then save it into Notability, a $10 app from GingerLabs. Rose left a comment on that post, expressing her […]
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Tiny Tip – Accessibility Shortcuts to Dim Screen & Magnify on iOS by Rick from Baltimore
Rick from Baltimore sent in this awesome little tip that solves a real problem: Hi Allison, I wanted to share a quick IOS tip that solved two problems for me. Problem One: I want to read on my iPad in bed, but the screen is too bright in the darkened bedroom, even with auto screen […]
Continue readingTiny Tip – How to Get the App Switcher Back to the Correct Display on macOS
This might be the tiniest tip ever posted on Podfeet.com. If you have external monitors hooked up to your Mac, it’s really awesome. Most of the time. Sometimes it gets confused. You probably know that in System Preferences, you can identify which display is the main monitor, meaning that’s where apps first open and such. […]
Continue readingTiny Tip – Screen Record Apple TV
I posted a Tiny Tip recently about how to put your Apple TV and all connected components to sleep with one button press on the Apple TV remote. In the post, I included a screenshot of the Apple TV screen. You might be wondering how I captured it. The other day I launched QuickTime with […]
Continue readingTiny Tip – Keyboard Shortcut to Delete in Save Dialog Boxes
If you’re a keyboard junkie, it bet it drives you nuts that when you try to close a window in which you don’t want to save the file, you have to drag your cursor all the way up to the save window to hit the delete button. You can save with the Enter key, but […]
Continue readingTiny Tip – Home Button Can Sleep Apple TV and TV/Receiver
A few weeks ago I was listening to the Clockwise Podcast and Mikah Sargent briefly mentioned something about the sleep button on the Apple TV remote. I couldn’t get it out of my head wondering what he was talking about. I figured out that what he’d mentioned was actually something pretty amazing. If you hold […]
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Can Digital Zoom be Better than Optical Zoom?
Rally Barnard sent in a photo tip I really like, especially because he’s actually quoting me in it! After he sent this in I made some observations that may change my advice. First, let’s hear from Rally. A while ago Allison in one of her talks on the MacMania Solar-Eclipse cruise said that the best […]
Continue readingTiny Tip – Translating Japanese on Your iPhone – by Helma
As an enthusiastic origami folder, I often buy Japanese books with diagrams. Usually, it’s enough to look at the diagrams to figure what I need to do, but often I wonder if there is an additional explanation in the text. I cannot read or understand Japanese and I don’t know how to produce the characters […]
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