AirDrop lets you send many types of data to people around you who are receptive to it, but one of the lesser-known things is the password. Since AirDrop is short-range and encrypted between devices, it’s a safe way to transfer a password to someone else or even to another of your devices if you haven’t ...
MacOS computers offer several ways to encrypt disk drives. With Macs with a built-in T2 chip, the startup volume is always encrypted. On other Macs, enabling FileVault allows you to encrypt this volume. In fact, on all Macs, FileVault also provides additional protection for a Mac even when the Mac is turned off. You can ...
Big Sur is a great update for macOS, and many have everything ready to be updated. However, if you’re using Mojave or any previous version of macOS to continue using 32-bit apps, you might not have done so yet. If you are ready to move on, you have several options for keeping your Mojave installation ...
In battery-powered devices, it is particularly useful to be able to view information on their consumption, charge, use, etc. This information, available for several years on iPhones and iPads, on Macs comes recently from the hand of macOS 11 Big Sur. Let’s see how to consult this information and what conclusions we can draw from ...
The Mac has a mode that Apple calls “macOS Recovery” (Recovery Mode) that you can use when you need to perform some kind of maintenance on your Mac computer. Apple has support documents to describe macOS recovery. And we must now clearly distinguish between Mac models based on the Intel chip and the more recent ...
Apple has made a change in the distribution of macOS that will not change the lives of end users, but will have an impact on the work of technicians, hobbyists and experts with the system. From now on MacOS updates can no longer be downloaded in batches autonomous. In other words, macOS Big Sur can ...
Apple includes macOS for two versions dynamic wallpapers that change according to the time of day. When the sun rises the background is darker, during the day it lights up, in the afternoon it darkens until it gets dark when the sun goes down. On iOS, we don’t have this option natively, but we can ...
One of the most relevant names among the most prominent VPN services that you can find in the market is ExpressVPN. It has long been one of our favorites, despite its high price which characterized it in the monthly payment. But the competition is catching up and ExpressVPN needs to stay ahead. At the time ...
One feature that has gradually established itself in most VPN services around the world is the shared tunnel feature. It could be called something else, but in essence it allows some apps to use the VPN connection while others don’t. By default, when you press the “Connect in a VPN application” button, an encrypted connection ...
The Mac can be a very personal device, and like an iPhone or iPad, its name can be changed whether it’s a MacBook, iMac, or Mac mini. By default, your Mac’s name will be “Mac of …” or “MacBook of …” and the username you have in your Apple ID, but this name can be ...
