How to set up networked Time Machine backups for a household
Apple’s Time Capsule base station put a Wi-Fi access point, a network router, and a backup drive that tied into Time Machine all in a single box. That was its downfall, too: if the drive…
Glenn Fleishman
Glenn Fleishman
How to type formatted fractions on your iPhone and iPad
If you’re typing on a Mac, you have a variety of options on how to enter drawn or “true” fractions, ones that are typographically rendered to look like they appear in a recipe or in…
Can’t authorize something with a Safari round-trip? Change your default browser temporarily
Some Mac apps require a round-trip through Safari to authorize activities using a web-based login. For instance, a recent update to Quicken for macOS supports a more secure login method offered by Citi for banking…
Troubleshoot your printer with logs, jobs, and a printer page in macOS
The macOS interface for working with printers, scanners, and–yes–fax machines has always been a little quirky. Apple built the printing component on top of the open-source CUPS protocol. (CUPS once stood for Common UNIX Printing…
How to connect an old Apple display to a new Mac
From 1999 until 2016, Apple released and continued to sell a series of external digitally connected displays optimized for Mac users. The displays started with DVI connectors, shifted to the Apple-made ADC connection, then back…
How to format your mail signature on an iPhone or iPad
A standard block or text—or signature or .sig—at the bottom of an outgoing email message dates back decades. Modern email software, like Apple’s Mail app for macOS, gives you full access to design a signature, including rich formatting,…
What wattage USB-C charger can you use to charge a MacBook?
Apple offers a wide variety of USB-C chargers that correspond to the many models of MacBook, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro it’s made that remain available or that it offers replacements for. You might think…
How to keep your Mac from logging you out while idle
macOS has a lot of features that control when your Mac reduces the power it uses and how it behaves when it does. There’s a relatively hidden setting that automatically logs you out of the…
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