by MacEdge | Sep 15, 2020 | Apple Tips, Blog, Mac, macOS Catalina
In 2016, Apple introduced the Touch Bar with the MacBook Pro. It’s a long, thin display above the number keys on the keyboard that shows a variety of buttons and controls. By default, it changes depending on which app you’re in, and it also displays the Control Strip,...
by MacEdge | Sep 10, 2020 | Blog, iPad, Mac, tips
In a normal year, most kids would be back in school by now. But the COVID-19 pandemic has caused many schools to offer online instruction, and many families are now settling into a remote back-to-school arrangement. We’ve provided some advice on working from home in...
by MacEdge | Aug 24, 2020 | Blog, Mac
On the Mac, scroll bars are essential for both orienting yourself and navigating within a Web page or document window. But they may not appear unless you hover the pointer over the right spot or start scrolling with a gesture on a trackpad or a turn of a mouse scroll...
by MacEdge | Aug 14, 2020 | Blog, Mac
It’s inevitable—your Time Machine backup drive is going to fill up. Time Machine is smart about backing up only files that have changed, but after months or years of usage, the drive will run out of space. What happens then? Before we explain, some background. On its...
by MacEdge | Aug 6, 2020 | Blog, Mac
Apple’s workhorse desktop Mac, the 27-inch iMac with Retina 5K display, hasn’t seen an update since March 2019. Happily, the company has finally released a new version of the popular iMac in 2020, outfitting it with 10th-generation Intel processors, increasing its RAM...
by MacEdge | Jul 28, 2020 | Blog, Mac
Every so often, we hear from a Mac user with a seemingly impossible problem: a document window in some app is opening somewhere outside of the screen so it’s effectively invisible and they can’t work with it in any way. Just closing (with File > Close) and...
