How to Type the Hash (#), Euro (€), Accents and Symbols on a Mac
“Where’s the hash key?” is one of the first questions UK Mac users ask. It isn’t printed on a UK Mac keyboard, but it’s there.
“Where’s the hash key?” is one of the first questions UK Mac users ask. It isn’t printed on a UK Mac keyboard, but it’s there.
Before your Mac goes to a new owner, you need to remove everything personal from it and unlink it from your Apple Account. On modern
Pings from Mail, Messages and a dozen other apps make it hard to concentrate. Focus lets you silence them, either completely or with exceptions for
Your Mac’s login password protects everything on it. It’s worth changing if someone else knows it, or if you’ve been using something far too simple.
Most modern printers work with a Mac straight away, with no driver disc and no downloads. That’s thanks to AirPrint, which is built into almost
Updates fix security holes, squash bugs and sometimes add new features. Keeping your Mac up to date is one of the simplest ways to keep
If you regularly lose windows behind other windows, Mission Control is for you. It shows everything that’s open in one view, and it lets you
Copy and paste works a little differently on a Mac than on Windows. The main change is that you use the Command (⌘) key where
Zip files bundle several files into one smaller file. They’re ideal for emailing a batch of photos or sending a whole folder in one go.
A Qualcomm Linux computer and an STM32 microcontroller share the classic UNO footprint Arduino UNO Q has two “brains” The Arduino UNO Q is the
Most diagram tools want you to get every line perfect. Excalidraw goes the other way. Everything looks hand-sketched, so you think about the idea rather
Macs don’t have a separate right-click button, which confuses almost everyone at first. But right-clicking — Apple calls it a secondary click — is fully
Buffering videos, frozen video calls and pages that won’t load: connection problems affect everything you do online. The trick is to work out where the
Scroll down a long spreadsheet and your column headings disappear off the top of the screen. Suddenly you can’t remember which column is “Invoice Date”
ShareX is a free, open-source screenshot and screen recording app for Windows with scrolling capture, GIFs, OCR and annotation. Here’s how to set it up properly.
Maccy is a lightweight, open-source clipboard manager for Mac. It remembers everything you copy so you can search and paste it again. Here’s how to set it up.
