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Use AssistiveTouch for Customizable Shortcuts on the iPhone and iPad
MacTalkSeptember 2022 Use AssistiveTouch for Customizable Shortcuts on the iPhone and iPad I’ve long been a fan of the AssistiveTouch feature in iOS (and I have receipts to prove it: see “Work Around a Broken iPhone Button with AssistiveTouch,” 24 July 2013)....
Tune Find My for Travel Tracking to Avoid Annoying AirTag and Apple Device Alerts
MacTalkSeptember 2022 Tune Find My for Travel Tracking to Avoid Annoying AirTag and Apple Device Alerts Apple’s AirTag offers compact and inexpensive tracking of your items through low-power, short-range Bluetooth networking signals. It’s a perfect item to drop into...
Survey Results: Which iOS 15 and macOS 12 Monterey Features Do You Actually Use?
MacTalkSeptember 2022Survey Results: Which iOS 15 and macOS 12 Monterey Features Do You Actually Use? Thanks to the 1319 people who voted in last week’s survey attempting to determine which iOS 15, iPadOS 15, and macOS 12 Monterey features are most and least used (see...
How to Securely Erase a Mac’s SSD or Hard Drive
MacTalkSeptember 2022 How to Securely Erase a Mac’s SSD or Hard Drive Over on TidBITS Talk, user Lucas043 posed a question that prompted a fascinating discussion. Lucas043 has a Samsung Portable T7 SSD being used for backup. The SSD has intermittent access problems...
GraphicConverter 11 Rescues Ancient QuickTake 150 Photos
MacTalkSeptember 2022 GraphicConverter 11 Rescues Ancient QuickTake 150 Photos Apple is now known for the cameras in the iPhone, but the first Apple camera was the QuickTake 100, released in 1994. It wasn’t the first digital camera, but Time magazine called it “the...
Continuity Camera Turns an iPhone Into a Mac Webcam
MacTalkSeptember 2022 Continuity Camera Turns an iPhone Into a Mac Webcam As someone with relatives on multiple continents and a day job I will do entirely from home for the foreseeable future, I engage in a lot of video conferencing. It’s often an unsatisfying...
Claris’s Plans for FileMaker Bode Well for Individual Users
MacTalkSeptember 2022ADAM ENGST 23 August 20224 comments Claris’s Plans for FileMaker Bode Well for Individual Users I’m not deep into the FileMaker development community, but some announcements from Apple subsidiary Claris a few months ago generated quite a...