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The Secret to Typing Accented Characters and URLs in iOS

Did you know that many keys on the small iPhone keyboard are hiding additional characters? To type an O with an umlaut, for instance, press (lightly) and hold the O key, and a popover appears with accented variants of O. Without lifting your finger, slide it over the...

Apples’s Vintage and Obsolete Products

Macs have a long life-span—even a 10 year-old Mac can be secure and productive—but Apple doesn’t offer hardware support for Mac models beyond 7 years past their discontinuance date. That means if the sale of a particular Mac model ceased on January 1, 2010...

Apple updates iPad and iPhone product lines

Apple often adjusts its iPad and iPhone lineup in March, and this year’s changes make the selection more attractive and affordable while adding a new way to support the (RED) international charity. New iPad replaces iPad Air 2 The most significant of Apple’s...

Launch apps from the keyboard with Spotlight

There are oodles of ways to launch Mac apps. You can double-click an app in the Applications folder, click an app icon in the Dock, invoke Launchpad and click the desired app, or choose an app from the Apple menu’s Recent Items > Applications submenu. You can...

Extend iPhone batter life with Low Power Mode

There’s nothing worse than your iPhone running out of juice at an inopportune time. Well, double-faulting in tennis is also pretty vexing. But I can’t help you there. With your iPhone, on the other hand…. Starting in iOS 9, there’s a Low Power Mode...