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Anyone remember the beige boxes Apple used to produce? There was the whole Performa series Mac computers. Many of them were multimedia. All of them..

The Spotlight search engine has been on the macOS for several years. With, each iteration of the OS it gets more powerful with more functionality...

I think most of us use a Thumb Drive for all kinds of things in todays computer environment. I have several, many of which are..

Occasionally, things just don’t work correctly in the macOS Messages App in macOS Catalina. I am hoping some of these issues will be corrected in..

Apparently, some people are having problems with their WiFi in iOS and iPadOS 14. Neither me nor my friends and family have had any problems,..

I know some of you are real Macintosh computer nerds and historians like me. This article listing a brief history of Mac processors may interest..

With the coming of iOS and iPadOS 14 you can change the Default Email and Web Browser to something different from Apple’s Mail and Safari..

This is so cool! I am in the System Preference Pane area quite often during the day interacting with different Preferences. The one preference I..

This is the definitive article on the new iPhone 12 models, they’re sizes and cost. There is also a comparison to the iPhone 11 which..