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Moment Helps You Gauge Your iPhone Use and Offers Parental Oversight Option

by Austin MacWorks | May 15, 2018 | iOS

Bothered by how much you find yourself using your iPhone for social media? Use the Moment app to quantify the problem. An added subscription can also help an entire family reduce excessive iPhone use.

What Is The Best Hard Drive to Use for Your Backups?

by Austin MacWorks | May 9, 2018 | Hardware

When it comes to losing data, the question is when it will happen, not if it will happen. Everyone loses data eventually. Smart people have backups. Here’s how to pick the right backup drive for your needs.

Taking Out the Garbage: Tips for Working with the Trash on the Mac

by Austin MacWorks | May 3, 2018 | macOS

At Austin MacWorks now, learn how you can take advantage of a few special techniques that make working with the Mac’s Trash faster and easier.

Use Modifier Keys to Do More—a Lot More—with Mouse Drags

by Austin MacWorks | Apr 30, 2018 | Announcements

Did you know that if you hold down the Option key while dragging a file in the Finder, you’ll get a green + pointer and it will make a copy in the destination?

There’s a Hidden Keyboard Shortcut Cheat Sheet in Your iPad

by Gretchen Heber | Apr 27, 2018 | iPad

To see a list of supported keyboard shortcuts in an app, simply press and hold the Command key on the keyboard until an information panel appears.

Wondering Where Your Past Events in the iOS Calendar App Have Gone?

by Austin MacWorks | Apr 24, 2018 | iOS

In iCal, choose a time period in Settings > Calendar > Sync, or to eliminate any possibility of confusion, just select All Events.

iOS 11.3 Introduces New Battery Health Feature, Business Chat, and More

by Gretchen Heber | Apr 17, 2018 | iOS, iPhone

At the end of March, Apple released updates to all four of its operating systems, but iOS 11.3 was the most notable. It boasts a variety of new features and other changes—you can think of it as the midpoint update between iOS 11’s first release and iOS 12, probably...

Here’s How to Lock Down Your Facebook Privacy Settings—to the Extent Possible

by Gretchen Heber | Apr 10, 2018 | Software

Facebook has dominated the news headlines of late, but not for good reasons. There were the 50 million Facebook profiles gathered for Cambridge Analytica and used in the 2016 presidential election. Facebook has long been scraping call and text message data from...