30 Days Of iOS Tips: Turn On The Viewfinder Grid To Better Frame Your Photos
If you ever doubted the popularity of the iPhone as a camera, all you need to do is take a look at Flickr: As PetaPixel...
30 Days Of iOS Tips: See How Much Storage Space Your Apps Use
Storage has been a touchy subject for iOS users as of late. As iOS has grown in features, so has its footprint, and this makes it...
30 Days Of iOS Tips: Disable Background App Refresh
Background app refresh has been great for my RSS Reader, podcasts, and iBooks—apps that I want to fetch new content in the background—but do I...
30 Days Of iOS Tips: See Which Apps Are Draining Your Battery
Apple’s battery life claims for the iPad and iPhone sure sound impressive, but as we all know, in real life, stuff happens. An app might...
30 Days Of iOS Tips: Respond To Unanswered Calls With A Text Message
Sometimes, I’ll receive a phone call from somebody but I’m just not in the mood to talk. Or maybe I’m in the middle of something...
30 Days Of iOS Tips: Set A Phonetic Name For Easier Siri Voice Dialing
Siri hasn’t ever really found its footing for a lot of users. For many of us, it’s still more of a punchline than a tool. Still, Siri...
30 Days Of iOS Tips: Set Up Or Change Your iPhone’s Passcode
If you ignored the security warnings when you set up your iPhone and still don’t have a passcode, we’ve got you covered. To keep your...
Tuesday Tips: Always Show Your Mac’s Library Folder
One of the more annoying things Apple has done in OS X since Lion is hide the user Library by default. This is likley because...
30 Days Of iOS Tips: Forward Text Messages To Your Mac
As part of Apple’s Continuity features in iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite, your iPhone can now pass along text messages to your Mac (or Macs). You...
30 Days Of iOS Tips: Add Outlines To Text-Only Buttons
iOS 7 introduced a new style to various navigation buttons: By default, many buttons are simply text labels in a color other than black (for...
30 Days Of iOS Tips: Rearrange Items In Newsstand
Newsstand is a bit of a funky beast. It looks and behaves like an app in iOS 7 and 8, and yet it’s still sort of like...
30 Days of iOS Tips: Set Up VIPs in Mail
Editor’s Note: We here at Macgasm took New Year’s Day off, but we’re happy to bring you another month of tips—and this time, it’s all...
31 Days Of OS X Tips: The Complete List
All throughout December, we here at Macgasm have published some of our favorite OS X tips, both basic and advanced. Miss some? No problem. Here’s the complete...
31 Days Of OS X Tips: Move Bookmarks From Other Browsers Into Safari
One’s taste in Web browsers is a surprisingly personal choice. I’m a fairly devoted Safari user, but I’m not one to evangelize for it and argue...
31 Days of OS X Tips: Create Your Own Ringtones In GarageBand
Before you burn up those Christmas iTunes cards on ringtones for your iPhone, why not try making your own in GarageBand? You’ll need to have a...
31 Days Of OS X Tips: Hide Preference Panes From View In System Preferences
Tucked away in System Preferences is an option to hide preference panes you don’t want or need to use. This could come in handy if...
31 Days Of OS X Tips: Use Chrome To Isolate Adobe Flash
Safari is a great browser, and I use it as the default for both my Mac and my iOS devices. But that doesn’t mean that...
31 Days Of OS X Tips: Get At Hidden OS X Settings With Tinkertool
Hidden inside OS X are a cadre of settings and options that, for one reason or another, Apple never included a checkbox or picker for....