A year ago, it took me two days updating my Mac to the latest macOS, High Sierra, and I wrote this post to document the performance issues I encountered.This year? Less than two hours! Yes, I mean from preparing my Mac for Mojave update, downloading Mojave pack from App Store and installing the new OS, […]
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Are you having problems using Skype on your Mac? Maybe it’s conflicting with another app, or it shows the ‘quit unexpectedly’ error when you launch it? This might be due to the associated files and folders of the older version interfering with your downloads. Perhaps something went wrong with the macOS update and you need […]
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Millions of people use iPhones for daily communication. Sometimes those text messages become important mementos used for work, study, and more — or even pieces of evidence for court. Today, I’m going to share four different ways you can print your iPhone text messages, along with step-by-step guides.In case you’re in a rush to find […]
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Image Credit: Skype Blog NewsI used to love Skype. The quality of video conferencing was unparalleled. Skype used to be the buzzword we used when we wanted to connect with friends or colleagues. Not anymore!Since Microsoft acquired Skype in 2011, the communication platform has changed rapidly from the sleek, friendly software that we users once […]
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We all know duplicate photos are almost useless, but we create them right on our handy iPhones — almost daily!Disagree?Take out your iPhone and tap the “Photos” app, browse those collections and moments, scroll up and down a bit.More often than not, you’ll find a handful of exact duplicates together with similar photos of the […]
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I’ve been using Google Drive to create and manage almost all of my projects, including my writing at SoftwareHow. 🙂One problem (more like a hassle) I’ve faced with Google Slides, a sub-product of Google Drive, is how to save an image or several images inside the presentation slides — especially when those images look really […]
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So, your Mac is running out of storage. You try to figure out what’s taking up your disk space by clicking the Apple logo on the top-left of the screen, selecting About This Mac, and hitting the Storage tab.To your surprise, you see a yellow bar representing “System” that seems to occupy way more space […]
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If you read my previous post about how to format an external hard drive, you know that I bought a 2TB Seagate Expansion external drive (see it on Amazon) and managed to create two partitions on the disk — one for Mac backup purposes, and the other for personal use.In this article, I’m going to […]
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There are now two versions of Lightroom. Which one do you want to explore?As much as photographers love Adobe Lightroom for its smooth RAW workflow, many of us were caught completely unawares by a surprise announcement from Adobe at the end of October.Instead of simply updating Lightroom CC to a new 2018 release alongside all […]
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So, you just bought an external hard drive and wanted to use it on your Mac. But somehow, macOS doesn’t allow you to write data to the drive.That’s all because it’s been initialized with Windows NT File System (NTFS), which is primarily for PCs. Apple Mac machines support a different file system.In this post, I’m […]
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