Tag: Mac

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Noise cancellation on a Mac mutes keyboard clicks

The Mac’s built-in noise cancellation suppresses keyboard clicks. It makes perfect sense, but there’s an annoying side effect

Typing your password over a button

Apple came up with this interface behavior that would seem strange before

Using timezones in Calendar in remote teams

Those who have remote colleagues and clients sometimes struggle with timezones and don’t know how to use Calendar

Resizing Mac Windows

If you start dragging a window’s border, the window will start to resize horizontally or vertically in that direction

Selection anchoring and undo on a Mac

A text selection not only has a beginning and an end, but also an anchor. It is whether I started selecting from the beginning or from the end

If Apple Notes stop syncing

Has it ever happened to you that Apple’s Notes just stopped syncing reliably via iCloud?

How Apple can preserve face while recovering from the MacBook Pro mistakes

In The best laptop ever made, Marco Arment outlines just how great the previous-generation MacBook Pros were

Make text lower case

Sometimes you paste a text from somewhere, and it’s all upper case, and you want to make it normal case

How to un-hang a hung app on a Mac

In some cases an app on your Mac would hang: the mouse cursor would turn into a spinning beach ball, and the app would ignore all clicks and key presses...

Reminders app is so buggy

Reminders is one of buggiest apps Apple has ever made. Sometimes it forgets to remind, sometimes it reminds twice

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