Avoid Mail Quotas, Improve Performance, and Reduce Clutter By Archiving Your Damn Email
Would you be distraught if you lost your email? Do you need to reduce server usage to stay under a mail quota? Or perhaps you need a copy of a previous employee’s communications. The answer is email archiving, and you can learn more about it here:
Make Editing Easier with Show Invisibles
Ever wondered if there’s a way to see the spaces, tabs, and returns that are typically invisible in your word processing and page layout documents? There almost certainly is—read on for our guide to the most popular Mac apps.
For The Love Of Pete! Stop Storing Confidential Files in Online File Sharing Services
Seriously. Stop doing this one thing!
PostScript Type 1 Fonts Are Dead—Here’s What to Do
If you have been accumulating fonts since the last century, you likely have some PostScript Type 1 fonts. Those will stop working in Photoshop this year and in all Adobe apps in 2023. Here’s how to move on.
Having Trouble Finding Files on Your Mac? Here’s How to Reset Spotlight
For the most part, Spotlight works well on your Mac. But somedays it just doesn't want to play along. We've got a fix.
How-to: Use Home Sharing to Access Media on Your Mac from Other Local Apple Devices
Home Sharing is a classic Apple feature for sharing local music and video across your home network. It works much as it always did, but this article explains how to use it on current Macs, iPhones, iPads, and Apple TVs.
Free Up Disk Space by Removing iCloud Drive Downloads
Free Up Disk Space by Removing iCloud Drive Downloads
With iCloud Drive, Apple provides an Optimize Mac Storage checkbox that, when checked, stores the full contents of iCloud Drive on the Mac only if there’s enough space. However, you may wish to recover local storage space without selecting that option—luckily, that’s easy to do. Open iCloud Drive in the Finder, Control-click a file, and choose Remove Download. The file remains in iCloud Drive, and if you need it locally, you can click the cloud icon next to its name to download it. If you’re not sure which files in the iCloud Drive window occupy the most space, choose View > As List, and then click the Size column so the largest files sort to the top (click again if they’re sorting to the bottom).
More great tips from the archives…
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- Never Send Someone a Password in Mail or Messages: Do This Instead!
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Stop Thinking About it and Get Started with 1Password!
Are you ready to let a password manager help you create, remember, and enter login info? Our tutorial on getting started with the popular 1Password will soon have you entering secure passwords with ease on all your Apple devices.
Got a new M1 Mac? Here’s What You Need to Know About the New Startup Modes.
Apple’s M1-based Macs change how you switch drives and access troubleshooting tools at startup. Read on to learn the new techniques.
Take a Few Minutes to Lock Down Your Facebook Privacy Settings
Facebook has revised parts of its often confusing interface. We recommend you take this opportunity to review your privacy settings to make sure they’re keeping your data private, both from other users and from Facebook itself.
