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March 19, 2024March 19, 2024

AirDrop Tap to Share

How to use AirDrop on your iPhone or iPad with iOS 17's Tap to Share feature. Learn how to use AirDrop on your iPhone or iPad to quickly send photos, documents, and more to nearby Apple devices, including how to share by bringing your iPhone next to someone else's, starting in iOS 17. To learn more …

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March 19, 2024March 19, 2024

AirDrop

What is AirDrop and how do you use it? AirDrop is used to share and receive photos, documents and more with other Apple devices that are nearby. Scenario: You are with some friends and you take a group photo. Everyone asks for a copy. Instead of emailing or texting the photos, you can transfer the photos …

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January 25, 2021January 25, 2021

ICE (In Case of Emergency)

Medical ID TechnoMinds will set this up for free. It is that important! Learn how to use Apple's iPhone Medical ID feature so that In Case Of Emergency (ICE) others can potentially save your life.In the unfortunate possibility that you have a medical emergency and you are unresponsive, a bystander should be able to assist …

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September 16, 2020September 17, 2020

What are Winmail.dat files?

As a Mac user living in a world with filled with PC users, at some point you must have come across an email with a mysterious file attached called winmail.dat. You are not able to open it and that both scares you and makes you curious. First off, you can relax. Most likely it is …

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November 15, 2019November 15, 2019

Find My…

Find a friend, a family member, a lost phone, all within one app. Meet up with friends at an outdoor concert. Keep track of the family during a day at the amusement park. Find a lost phone or even a stolen computer. The Find My app is a great way to share your location with …

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June 17, 2019January 31, 2021

Safari Safety Tip – Extensions

Did you know you can add extensions to Safari? They will add functionality that can enchance your user experience and ultimately, your security?

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June 17, 2019January 31, 2021

Safari Safety Tip – SSL

Do you do your banking online? Do you ever use a credit card to purchase something online? If so, make sure the website is safe. This is perhaps one of the simplest things to do in our list of tips, yet one of the more important ones.

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June 17, 2019January 31, 2021

Safari Safety Tip – Fraud

Many websites pretend to be something they are not. They can look exactly like the real one, yet really be a fake one that is trying to get your username and password. Or it could be a trap to infect your computer with malware.

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June 17, 2019June 17, 2019

Safari Safety Tip – Spying

We have all heard the stories about hackers controlling someone's webcam and seeing what they shouldn't. Did you know that in Safari preferences, you can see what websites have the ability to control your camera, your microphone and many other functions of your computer?

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June 17, 2019June 17, 2019

Safari Safety Tip – Malware

Have you ever had a popup window tell you that your computer has been infected with a virus? Or have you had an alert tell you that Flash needs to be updated? These are common tricks to get you to download malware to your computer.

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