Tekee Tim's Tips

Taking a screenshot of your device

If you want to capture some information that’s displayed on your screen, such as a receipt, it can often be helpful to take a screenshot.

Luckily this is easy on all devices, Windows, Mac, iOS and Android.

Using Visual Lookup on iOS 15.4

The recent update to iOS 15.4 on iPhone and iPad brought Visual Lookup to the UK, this allows you to look up information about the subject of your photos and see similar photos from the web.

In this tip, we'll show you how to use this new feature on your iPhone.

Check your washing instructions with your iPhone

Did you know that you can check the washing instructions for your clothes with your iPhone? In this Super Tim Tip, we'll run you through how to do it.

Finding your iPhone from your Apple Watch

If you have both an iPhone and an Apple Watch, did you know that you can use your watch to find your phone if you misplace it?

In this tip, we'll show you how to track down your phone from your wrist using your Apple Watch.

How can I ensure that all my devices are up to date?

Keeping your devices up to date is always very important, software updates allow bugs to be fixed, security issues to be addressed and new features to be added to all your devices. You'll usually get notified if there are any updates for your devices, but here we'll run through the most common machines and how you can check to see if you have any updates waiting to install.

How can I silence my devices quickly?

If you're going to the cinema, into a meeting or running a presentation, you'll need to quickly silence your devices and stop any notifications popping up on the screen. This is usually just one or two taps or clicks and we'll run through all the ways to do it here.

How do I use Apple Music?

With Apple Music's increasing popularity, Tekee Tim thought it would be a good time to show you how to get the best from it.

Changing your DNS servers

If you find yourself having intermittent problems with websites loading slowly, email not working and seeing out of date websites, you could be having problems with your DNS servers.

All Internet Providers provide DNS as part of the connection and these convert a website name such as bbc.co.uk into the actual address of the website which is something like 63.194.125.69. Unfortunately the DNS Servers that you get with your Internet connection are usually pretty bad. They can be slow and out of date and we always recommend using better ones.

In this tip, we'll show you have to switch over to using faster and safer DNS on your Mac, Windows PC and your home router.

Install iPhone and iPad apps on your new Mac

If you have one of Apple's new Macs using their own Apple Silicon processor, then you can install a selection of iPhone and iPad apps and use them on your Mac as you would a normal Mac app. At the time of writing this tip, the new MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and Mac mini all feature the new Apple M1 chip.

In today's Tekeez Tip, we'll show you how to find and install an iPhone or iPad app on your new Mac.

Syncing your Office documents across your devices

If you use Microsoft Office (Word, Excel & PowerPoint) then you can use OneDrive to keep your documents in sync between your devices and allow you to work wherever you are. If you have an Office365 subscription then you already have 1TB of OneDrive space or you can sign up for a free account and get 5GB of space.

Using Reader View to make websites easier to read

If you're reading a long article on a website, all the surrounding adverts, pictures and links to other pages can get distracting, most modern web browsers now have a Reader Mode or Reader View which lets you get rid of the distractions and concentrate on what you're trying to read.

In this Tekeez Tip, we'll show you how to turn this mode on to make it easier to read the story you're trying to focus on.

How can I keep my data safe?

Keeping a regular backup of the data on your computer and mobile device is one of the most important things that you can do. This protects you against losing any of your photos, music or documents in the event that anything happens to your computer or if any of your files get accidentally deleted.