by Austin MacWorks | Dec 2, 2020 | Announcements, Mac OS Tips, Software
Image based on an original by Gary Meulemans on Unsplash In July 2017, Adobe announced that it would stop distributing and updating Flash Player on December 31st, 2020. Web standards like HTML5 provide a viable alternative to Flash content, and organizations that...
by Austin MacWorks | Nov 25, 2020 | Mac OS Tips
Image created with originals by Patrick Ward on Unsplash and Mateusz Zdrzałek from Pixabay On the Mac, nearly every file has an extension, a set of characters after a period that indicates what type of file it is and determines which app opens it. So, .png indicates a...
by Austin MacWorks | Nov 10, 2020 | Mac OS Tips, MacBook
Image created with originals by cottonbro from Pexels and OpenIcons from Pixabay Starting with macOS 10.15.5 Catalina, Apple introduced a battery health management feature that improves your battery’s lifespan by adjusting charging patterns to reduce the rate at which...
by Austin MacWorks | Oct 20, 2020 | Mac OS Tips
We’re big fans of column view in Finder windows (choose View > as Columns). You never have to worry about missing icons that are outside the window, everything is sorted alphabetically, and selecting a file shows a preview. But the column widths can be too thin,...
by Austin MacWorks | Sep 30, 2020 | Mac OS Tips
Image by Jason Dent on Unsplash Over the last few releases of macOS, Apple has been beefing up the Mac’s privacy controls so they more closely resemble what the company has done in iOS. You’ve undoubtedly noticed that when you first launch a new app on your iPhone or...
by Austin MacWorks | Sep 28, 2020 | Announcements, iOS, Mac OS Tips
Image by Apple Apple has recently pushed out major software upgrades, including iOS 14, and will likely continue to do so in the coming weeks. Apple previewed these new versions at its Worldwide Developers Conference back in June, and they’ve been in public beta for a...
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