I invested in two power line adapters earlier this year to extend the range of my Wi-Fi network at home. I put one in the kitchen and the other upstairs to increase the signal strength at the kitchen table and in the upstairs bedrooms. The adapters seem to be working, but with free Mac app …

In my experience, the Mail apps for iOS and OS X defaulted to different actions for swiping to delete or archive email messages. A swipe to the left on my iPhone brings up the archive button, and a swipe to the left on my Mac brings up the trash button. Time to get these two actions in sync. Since I …

Apple iCloud Drive has arrived. It now operates as a standalone service on both OS X and iOS, catching it up to Dropbox and other cloud services that allow for quick and convenient uploads so you can access your files across your Apple devices while freeing up some local storage on your devices in the process. Let’s have a look …

My son and I are excited for “The Force Awakens,” but we will likely wait to see a matinee next week when he is on holiday break from school and the crowds have (hopefully) thinned out a bit. Until showtime, I would like to continue my life online while avoiding any and all Star Wars spoilers, which I expect to …

With iOS 9.2, it’s easier to send large attachments using your iPhone. The Mail app now supports Mail Drop, a feature that was introduced on Macs with OS X Yosemite. Mail Drop lets you send attachments up to 5GB in size by using iCloud as a temporary way station. As with OS X, you do not need to initiate sending …

The natural order of things is to find a song and then start a playlist with that song and not the other way around where you first start a playlist and then find the first song to add to it. With the iOS 9.2 update, you can now create a new playlist without needing to take the initial step of …

iBooks is a bit easier to navigate with the addition of 3D Touch, particularly if you are one to take notes or add bookmarks. You can press as hard as you can while reading a book but you won’t get anything other than the same Copy/Define/Highlight/Note pop-up menu as before. I was hoping, for example, that I could 3D Touch …

I use Siri all the time to remind me to do things. Pay a bill tomorrow morning. Buy milk the next time I’m at the grocery store. Brush my dog. Thanks to this OS X Daily post, Siri has become more useful because I now use her to remind me about long-form articles I don’t have time to finish, emails …

Yesterday, I showed you how to cover your holiday-shopping tracks on Amazon. If you use Safari to shop for gifts on an iOS device, then you wouldn’t want your browsing history to spoil a holiday surprise. Thankfully, it’s easy to delete individual sites or larger time blocks from your Safari history. Or you can use the nuclear option and delete …

Even at its lowest setting, an iPhone’s display can be too bright if you’re reading in bed at night or in an otherwise dark room. If you find you’re still blinded by the light even after moving the brightness slider all the way to the left in Control Center, there is a way to dim the screen past what the …