USB sticks, hard drives, folders or documents sometimes have special icons. Can I change them myself? You can take any photo in the .jpg or .png format and connect it to a volume, a folder or a file. To do this, click the picture in the finder with the right mouse button and select “Copy” … Read more
The trackpad spins on my MacBook. It happens to be mouse movements and clicks, which makes the Mac practically unusable. I no longer want to invest money for repairing the old MacBook. Can the trackpad be disconnected? Then I would only use the mouse. Yes, you can deactivate the trackpad software side. You can find … Read more
My game collection is mostly on Steam. The program is quite sluggish and still requires the translation layer Rosetta 2. Is there no native version for Apple chips? In fact, developer and Steam operator Valve took a lot of time to change his client. At the editorial deadline, the current Mac version was still the … Read more
My iPhone often spends a warning tone and then I only discover an Amazon advertising medium on the lock screen. Actually, I had switched off tones for the app in the system settings, what else can you do? Under “Settings> Messages> Mitteilungsstil> Amazon”, you can deactivate “urgent messages”, “tones” and “license plates” if not already … Read more
I use several email accounts in the new Outlook for Mac (version 16.97.1), but I only want to receive notifications for new emails from a specific account. A disturbing message appears for each fresh email in the other two accounts. In legacy outlook this could be solved through the rules, but in the new version … Read more
Can I automatically rename into MacOS files? I am not allowed to install apps in my company. For simple operations, such as to add a counter or the date, an external tool is not necessarily required. The “rename” function of the finder also works for several files. First, click on the desired files individually with … Read more
For me, the fact that passengers can determine the music in the car is one of the best new functions in CarPlay. This works wonderfully with my wife and one of my daughters. With my second daughter, however, it doesn’t work out, the connection does not come about. The scanning of the special QR code … Read more
Sometimes I get invoices by email without an attached PDF document. How can I save the mail content with my iPad or iPhone as a PDF file in the iCloud Drive? Unfortunately, the mobile mail app has always been missing the otherwise available partial function. However, you can help yourself with the print command. As … Read more
In your article on the subject of iCloud security, they highlight the end-to-end encryption “extended data protection”. Does the protection also apply if I release individual files with other people via iCloud parts or for processing? Only if you share content with certain people and all recipients have also activated the “extended data protection” (US … Read more
I have been using a Cherry keyboard on my Mac for a long time. Only now has I noticed that the keys ^ and