iOS 10 for the iPhone and iPad brought some pretty useful features. One of the less known ones is the ability to save a PDF rather than printing. It's not intuitive enough to discover, but here's how you do it: In your app that you wish to print from, tap on whatever you need to to print. In most ...
Internet Recovery Disk on 2010 Macs now boots to Sierra instead of Lion
If you have a 2010 or Early 2011 model Mac, and have current firmware updates applied to it, you can boot it into Internet Recovery. This would allow you to install 10.7 Lion, but only if you'd previously downloaded it from the Mac App Store. But I've discovered that these older computers instead ...
Installing old versions of macOS
Usually, you want to be running the latest version of macOS, which at this moment is 10.12 Sierra (version 10.12.3), available for free from the Mac App Store. But, sometimes, for one reason or another, you might want to install an older version of macOS. Here's how you get them, and some of the ...
Save your SSH passphrase in your Sierra keychain, like you used to be able to
One of the Mac’s best features for tech types has been disabled by default in Sierra: being able to save the passphrase for an SSH public-private key pair in the macOS keychain. If you don’t know what that means, then you probably don’t need to worry about it. But if you do, it means that you’ll ...
Download the latest Microsoft Office for Mac installers
Somehow, I stumbled across an incredibly useful page on Microsoft's web site which has the latest Mac installers for Microsoft Office 2016, Microsoft Office 2011, and other releases. This is pretty useful, because: It doesn't require that you log into Microsoft's confusing web site in order just ...
Find My AirPods
Apple's new AirPods are a wireless version of their Earpods, meaning they're two independent little things that hang in your ears with no cord. It would be easier than easy to lose one or both of them. One of their features is that they are self-configuring, via iCloud, rather than having to much ...