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.
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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.
Included in Apple's updates for iOS 9.3 and macOS 10.11.4 was the ability to have encrypted notes that you can share between the iPhone/iPad and your Mac. Here we'll show you how to lock and unlock notes on both devices so you can ensure that any confidential information you add into a note is kept safe.
If you've upgraded your Apple devices to macOS Mojave and iOS 12, you can make use of the great new Continuity Camera feature to take a photo on your iPhone and put it straight onto your 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.
If you prefer speaking to the recipient on the PulseHD app before transferring a call, you can now make this the default behaviour. The first step is to update your PulseHD app to version 4.2 or later and then follow the steps in our guide here.
There's a great feature in Safari on the iPad and iPhone that can help you keep track of websites that you want to come back to regularly. It's called Reading List and it also allows you to read the website as it was when you stored it, even if you don't have an Internet connection on your device.
More and more people are now only using a smartphone or a tablet rather than a desktop PC or a laptop, so these devices soon fill up with emails, photos and other important data. It's important to ensure that your mobile device is backed up so here we'll show you how to ensure that your mobile device is backed up.
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.
If you receive attachments via email, it’s important to save them onto your computer. Once you’ve done this you can edit the attachments, email them on to other people and file them away into your filing system.
Below we’ll show you how to save your file attachments from Mac Mail, Outlook and iPhone/iPad Mail.
Sometimes we all need to send large files to other people, whether it's a large document for work or a family photo or video to help you keep in touch with family and friends.
In this tip, we'll show you how to send large files using wetransfer.com directly from your iPad or iPhone.
Most people now have more than just one PC at home or in the office, so it’s important to know how to access your emails when you’re away from your main PC.
Almost all the major email providers have a few ways for you to do this and we’ll take a look at those options here.
One of the new features for the iPhone in iOS 11 is a one handed keyboard. If you have one of the larger iPhones and regularly use it with one hand, this can make typing much easier.