Putting your MacBook into its sleep state is a convenient and useful option when you need to step away for a moment. Provided you have an account password set up, sleep lets you lock your MacBook without shutting it down so you can quickly resume your labors upon your return. There are a number of …

If you encounter an unresponsive app on your Mac, you have four methods at your disposal to close it using Force Quit. Dock For an app whose icon you have parked in the Dock, you can right-click on the icon and hit the Option key. With the Option key pressed, the Quit menu item turns into Force Quit. Apple menu …

With each iteration of iOS, Apple adds new features to make iPhones and iPads more flexible and easier to use. I happily accept these improvements each year, but there are some that end up just getting in the way. There are three features in particular — two for the iPhone and one for the iPad — that I use only …

So long, Scanner Pro. My previous workflow for scanning documents on my iPhone or iPad was to use the Scanner Pro app to scan and then use Dropbox to share them or move them to my computer. With Dropbox adding document scanning to its iOS app, I can streamline my scanning operations. To scan a document using the updated Dropbox …

Google Docs is packed with powerful tools. Here are 10 that will help you get more out of Google’s free word-processing app. Talk instead of type For times when you’d rather use your voice than your fingertips to type, give Google Docs’ voice typing tool a try. From the top of an open document, go to Tools > Voice typing. …

You’ll need to wait a little longer for MacOS Sierra — July for the public beta, sometime in the fall for the final release — but you can outfit your Mac right now with a little Sierra flair. The default wallpaper for MacOS Sierra features a majestic, sun-splashed view of the Sierra Nevada mountain range and can be downloaded right …

If your PC, or more likely, your next PC has Intel’s RealSense 3D camera along with Windows 10, then you can simply place your face in front of your PC to log in to Windows. Intel’s RealSense 3D camera is actually three cameras in one. It features a 1080p HD camera, an infrared camera and an infrared laser projector, which …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Now playing: Watch this: OS X gets a new name, and new features galore 2:22 Apple unveiled iOS 10 and Mac OS Sierra, the operating systems for its mobile and desktop platforms respectively, Monday at the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference. As with …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Now playing: Watch this: OS X gets a new name, and new features galore 2:22 Apple rebranded Mac OS X as MacOS on Monday at the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference. In addition to changing the name of its Mac operating system, Apple …

Not every iTunes user is an Apple Music subscriber. If you purchase music through iTunes instead of subscribing to a streaming music service or subscribe to Spotify or a streaming service other than Apple Music, you can streamline the iTunes interface and hide the four Apple Music-related buttons — For You, New, Radio and Connect — that sit between the …