28 articles tagged iCloud — page 2 of 3.
Is your Mac complaining about the lack of space on your Time Machine drive? While you could solve the problem by investing in a bigger, better hard drive, you can often save some money by taking a critical look at exactly what you’re including in your Time Machine backups. Most of the time, you can […]
Does it feel like you’re stuck in an infinite loop of iCloud errors? Perhaps you’re constantly being interrupted by “This Mac cannot connect to iCloud because of a problem with <email address>” messages? Or, maybe iCloud is being more cryptic, and displaying the not-especially helpful “An unknown error occurred” message? While you can often dismiss […]
Think about the tasks you perform on your Mac on a regular basis: chances are, many of them rely on Apple’s online services. Whether it’s sharing documents via iCloud; catching up with your favourite TV shows or listening to music in iTunes, using Mail and Messages to keep in touch with friends, family and colleagues; […]
Whether it’s posting photos to Facebook, tweeting a link to a funny story you’ve just read, or sending documents to a friend over AirDrop, we’re all sharing more digital content than ever before. To help you share content with ease, Apple provides a dedicated ‘Share’ menu that appears across macOS. You’ll typically access this menu […]
Find My Mac is the one feature that Mac owners hope they’ll need to use, as it’s designed to help you track down a lost or stolen Mac by displaying its current GPS coordinates on a map. Find My Mac isn’t a new feature, but it’s one that’s often overlooked, as most Mac users don’t […]
As a Mac user, whenever you want to share a large number of photos with friends or family, chances are that iCloud Photo Sharing is one of your top choices – but what if one of the people you want to share photos with doesn’t own an Apple device? Although iCloud Photo Sharing is most […]
Thinking of selling your Mac? Or maybe you’re planning to do a good deed and pass your old Mac along to a friend or family member? Regardless of whether you’re gifting or selling your Mac, no one’s going to be thrilled to find that their new computer is packed with someone else’s content and data, […]
Ask anyone to name their biggest Internet pet peeve, and odds are they’re going to say spam. Spam has always been annoying, but nowadays spam is no longer confined to your inbox, as junk-mailers are constantly finding new and creative ways of forcing you to look at their adverts – and the latest trick is […]
Smartphone cameras have come a long way in recent years, to the point where digital camera sales have dropped off dramatically – and iPhones are no different. If you own an iPhone, then you pretty much have digital camera-worthy software and hardware within arm’s reach, all day, everyday. It’s no surprise then, that we’re all […]
One of the new macOS features that’s already available via the Sierra beta, is the ability to automatically sync the entire contents of your Desktop and Documents folders with your iCloud account. In the pre-Sierra world, if you wanted to sync a file with iCloud then you had to go to the effort of manually […]
Available in OSX Yosemite onwards, iCloud Drive is one of the easiest ways to store files, pictures, videos and more “in the cloud”. Which basically means the files you keep there can be accessed on any Mac or iOS device which is signed into your iCloud account. When you use iCloud Drive, the files you save there […]
The Notes app in OS X El Capitan has thankfully had important changes and new features that were badly needed. The new Notes app is now much more useful, and Mac users will find it can handle some of the more advanced features typically offered by third party apps such as Evernote. In this article, we’ll run through some of the key changes and how you can make the most […]
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