It’s really easy to take lots of PDFs and make them into one PDF on a Mac, no special software necessary. This works in macOS 12 Monterey and in macOS 13 Ventura. I put all the PDFs I want to merge into one folder, to make it easier. Open that folder and select all the files. (If ...
1Password Watchtower, for checking password security
I’ve been using 1Password for years and it is probably the most important software I use, since I have so many websites that I need to log into on a regular basis. Yes 1Password can store all your passwords, as well as credit card numbers, and other secure data. And yes it can create super strong ...
how to get live Facebook chat support
Like most popular free services, Facebook does not normally have any live support options. However, I discovered a way to get live chat support today. (Not on the phone, but at least real-time online chat with a human.) It takes a while to set up, but that part only has to be done once. Perform ...
I only just discovered you can now remove a single item from Mac Trash
For most of its history, Trash in macOS was an all or nothing affair. If you wanted something removed from your Mac permanently, everything else had to go with it. But what if you wanted to permanently delete a very large file, so you could recover the disk space, without including the smaller ...
Remove Google Contacts and Holidays from Calendar on your Mac, iPhone or iPad
When you add a Google calendar to Apple's Calendar app for Mac, iPhone, or iPad, you get two "calendars" you may or may not want, one for Holidays, which is redundant with Apple's own Holidays calendar, and another, confusingly, for Contacts. It's possible to hide these from being displayed by ...
Phishing Attacks Targeting Apple Users
9 to 5 Mac has an article about how phishing attacks targeting users of Apple products have increased by 30-40% per year. The article states, In the first half of this year, around 1.6 million phishing attacks attempting to fool people into using their Apple ID credentials to log in to a fake Apple ...