How To Use Your Android Phone or iPhone as a Webcam
Smartphones can take on the roles of many other gadgets—cameras, calculators, e-readers, dictaphones, and all the rest—and they can also do double duty as webcams. In fact, this functionality is…
Here’s why 2024 is going to be a slow year for the Mac
We’ve finally made it into 2024, and if you’re of the Apple persuasion, it feels like there’s a huge amount to look forward to this year. Yet that’s not true…
How to make a zip file on a Mac
Creating zip files on a Mac might seem daunting at first, but you have a few options — and plenty of tools — at your disposal. While you may have…
How To Keep Your Laptop or Desktop Well Maintained
Like anything mechanical—your car, for example, or your washing machine—your laptop or desktop computer will benefit from being regularly maintained, it’ll last longer and perform better, and the regular jobs…
How to add and use desktop widgets in macOS Sonoma
Apple’s macOS Sonoma has brought a bunch of interesting new features for Mac users, and desktop widgets are among the most useful. As the name implies, you can now drag…
Apple Delayed Next Year’s iPhone Software To Deal With This Year’s Software Bugs
The iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max. Photo: Florence Ion / Gizmodo We’ve barely upgraded our Apple devices to the new versions of their operating systems, and already, there’s…
The best new macOS Sonoma feature makes it more like Windows 11 – in a good way
I’ve been playing around with macOS Sonoma, Apple’s latest operating system update for Macs and MacBooks, and one of the more subtle changes included in the update may prove to…
How to set up and use video screen savers in macOS Sonoma
Want a more interesting way to move from a desktop wallpaper to a screen saver on your Mac? Well, macOS Sonoma lets you do just that with a very neat…
How a Well-Regarded Mac App Became a Trojan Horse
In the early days of macOS Mojave in 2018, Apple hadn’t offered users a way to automatically switch to dark and light mode at different times of the day. As…
This secret menu will change how you use your Mac forever
The more you use Apple’s macOS operating system, the more you come across amazing little tools and features that you’ve somehow never heard of, yet which can totally blow your…