Combining multiple PDFs can be really stressful, mostly because the process isn’t clearly outlined in the programs you’re probably using to view the, and a lot of the third-party apps that offer the feature (like Adobe Acrobat) cost money. But if you want to combine PDFs together without paying anything extra, you…
Welcome to Evil Week, our annual dive into all the slightly sketchy hacks we’d usually refrain from recommending. Want to weasel your way into free drinks, play elaborate mind games, or, er, launder some money? We’ve got all the info you need to be successfully unsavory.
Now that so much of our work happens on websites, it’s hard to find native apps designed for Macs. If you spend a lot of time on an obscure website, or a custom-made work portal, you might want to create a dedicated app for it—something that works as well as (or better) than Safari, shows you notifications, and has a…
When it comes to keyboard shortcuts on the Mac, the focus is often on Command, Control, Option, and Shift. However there’s another useful key with excellent keyboard shortcuts mapped to it—Fn, aka, the Function key. This is the button with the globe icon in the bottom-left corner of your Mac’s keyboard. Reddit user…
Back in the day, Mac OS X had a dedicated Dashboard for widgets, where you could add all sorts of nifty little interactive utilities. With the release of macOS Mojave in 2018, Apple finally laid the old system to rest, and did not replace it with anything. Sure, you could add widgets to the Notification Center, but…
Browser profiles are an essential feature for separating your personal and work-related browsing, and yet it took until 2023 for Apple to bother adding the feature to Safari. Nevertheless, profiles are now here in iOS 17 and macOS 14 Sonoma, and they’re great. Not only can you keep your work and play browsing tabs…
The iPhone 15 Pro’s Action Button is a game-changer. With it, you can quickly launch features like the camera and flashlight, or, if you’re really creative, a host of useful shortcuts and automations. But what’s better than assigning one shortcut to the Action Button? Assigning two shortcuts to the Action Button.
The latest version of macOS is now widely available, offering several small changes to the operating system you might miss if you don’t know where to look. It really shouldn’t be much of a surprise that Apple is once again playing things safe, offering what might seem like minor updates to its already solid operating…