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Switch to Boost Mobile and get 3 months coverage for $45

Boost Mobile is one of the largest mobile networks in the United States. Right now they’re having a fantastic deal on a Boost Mobile Prepaid 3-Month Plan: Unlimited Talk & Text + 5GB 5G/4G Data/Month with SIM Card Kit for $44.99.  Switching to …

How to Stream Every ‘Star Trek’ TV Show in 2022

M1 Pro and M1 Max MacBook Pro: Everything you need to know

Apple revealed the new 14- and 16- inch MacBook Pro laptops at its “Unleashed” event. The new laptop features a new redesign with smaller bezels, a new display, new ports, new Apple silicon, and more. Here are the key details on the MacBook Pro. …

If Facebook and Google are annoyed, Apple must be doing something right

Welcome to our weekly collection of all the Apple news you missed this week, in a handy bite-sized roundup. We call it Apple Breakfast because we think it goes great with a morning cup of coffee or tea, but it’s cool if you want to give it a read …

How to split a macOS account into two

One of macOS’s most beneficial features—and its biggest change from pre-OS X versions of macOS—is allowing multiple users to have unique accounts on the same computer. Sometimes, however, you might decide only after creating and using an account f…

How a Smartwatch Can Help You Train for a 5K

Are there privacy risks in sharing the MacOS .DS_Store files?

In MacOS, each folder has a hidden .DS_Store file. If I compress a folder on MacOS, the zip file will contain those .DS_Store files. What information is contained in those files, and does it expose any information about me, my device, m…

Coming to Apple TV+: Release dates, trailers, and more

Apple’s list of currently available content for Apple TV+ continues to grow, but there’s an even faster-growing list of projects in the works. Films, limited series, specials, and multi-season series, Apple’s got lots of irons in the fire for all …

When diskutil mount vs mount?

I know how to mount in Linux at /mnt through the mount command, the same command exists on macos too. After to read the following tutorial: Mount & Unmount Drives from the Command Line in Mac OS X It uses diskutil mount instead of mou…

Apple Arcade FAQ: ‘Gibbon: Beyond the Trees’ is now available

Gaming subscription services are all the rage now, but Apple Arcade isn’t quite like Google Stadia or Xbox Live. So if you’ve got questions about it, we’ve got plenty of answers. Updated 2/25/22: Gibbon: Beyond the Trees is now available. Wh…

6 Things You Didn’t Realize Your iPhone Could Automate

How to Play Music on HomePod Mini

The Apple HomePod Mini and HomePod is quite popular, and for many users it’s their first smart speaker. If you’re new to these devices, you may be unfamiliar with how some of the basics works, like playing music on HomePod mini. Considering that one…

macOS networking brutally slow using VNC or Apple Remote Desktop

Accessing a Mac using Apple Remote Desktop or VNC is brutally sluggish. I'm trying to write software and it is too painful to use. The screen does not refresh in a useful period of time. I googled it to death and came up nothing - mostl…

How to Turn Off Transparency in Windows 11

follow an alias link to a directory, using zsh and ohmyzsh

Is it possible to follow an alias link in Terminal using zsh and ohmyzsh? My Terminal states: 'zsh: permission denied:' or 'cd: not a directory:' . The alias is of course a little file and not a directory. But in that file there is a po…

MacBook Pro with TouchBar (late 2016) has black display but works with external monitor

I’ve a late 2016 MacBook Pro (4 Thunderbolt ports and Touch Bar), with Monterey 12.2 installed on it. The MacBook was perfectly working when the other day the screen suddenly went black while browsing on internet. In the last months I n…

What Does NIP Mean, and How Do You Use It?

Are there privacy risks in sharing the MacOS .DS_Store files?

In MacOS, each folder has a hidden .DS_Store file. If I compress a folder on MacOS, the zip file will contain those .DS_Store files. What information is contained in those files, and does it expose any information about me, my device, m…

How to Turn Off 5G on the Samsung Galaxy S22

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