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.

How can I remember my passwords?

These days we all have passwords for everything and they all need to be unique, secure and cryptic but easy to access when you need them.

For years now we've been using and recommending 1Password as an easy way to create, store and enter passwords that match all the requirements above.

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 easily backup all the data on my mobile 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.

Setting Attended Transfer on PulseHD

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.

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.

How to change your default web browser and email apps

With such a wide choice of apps available for PCs, Macs and mobile devices, you'll often want to use a different default application for your web browsing, email, photo editing, playing music etc and this is easy to change on all your devices.

In this tip we'll go through how to set the default apps on your different devices.

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.

Private MAC addresses in iOS 14

One of the great new privacy features in iOS 14 is the ability to use a private MAC (media access control) address on your WiFi networks. This helps you avoid being tracked as you hop from one WiFi network to another (for example, as you're walking around a shopping centre). and in this tip, we'll explain why it's a good thing and also why you may not want to use it under certain circumstances.

Using Reading List to keep track of your favourite websites on iOS

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.

Mobile device battery running down quickly?

If you find that your smartphone or tablet runs of out battery power sooner that you expect. You can check to see where the power is being used. This is easy on iPhone/iPad and Android and we'll show you how here.

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.