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Battery Percentage to show in Your Mac’s Menu Bar

May 1, 2024 / April 22, 2026 by Red Piston | Leave a Comment

By default, the battery icon in your Mac laptop’s menu bar shows how full your battery is. Clicking it reveals the exact percentage, but you can also set macOS to display the battery percentage next to the icon. The setting isn’t where you might expect in System Settings > Battery. Instead, you’ll find it in […]

Apple’s iCloud Keychain

May 1, 2024 / April 22, 2026 by Red Piston | Leave a Comment

Apple’s iCloud Keychain Password Management Is All Many People Need We constantly recommend using a password manager like 1Password, BitWarden, or Dashlane. But many people resist committing to yet another app or paying for yet another service. Isn’t Apple’s built-in iCloud Keychain password management good enough? The answer now is yes, thanks to two recent […]

Why You Should Choose Authorized Apple Repairs Over Unauthorized Service

April 30, 2024 / April 22, 2026 by Red Piston | Leave a Comment

When an Apple device requires repairs, users have the option to choose between authorized and unauthorized repair services. Authorized Apple repair services, such as those provided by Alary Technologies in the Durham Region, offer several advantages over unauthorized alternatives. Here’s how Alary Technologies provides a superior alternative to standard Apple repair services, with unique authorized […]

Apple Podcasts Adds Transcripts

April 1, 2024 / April 22, 2026 by Red Piston | Leave a Comment

In iOS 17.4, iPadOS 17.4, and macOS 14.4 Sonoma, Apple enhanced its Podcasts app to include transcripts of all podcasts in the Apple Podcasts catalog as long as they’re in English, French, German, or Spanish. (It doesn’t translate from one language to another.) Much like song lyrics in the Music app—open it by tapping the […]

How to Sync Your Text Messages across All Your Apple Devices

April 1, 2024 / April 22, 2026 by Red Piston | Leave a Comment

Although many of us think of Messages as an iPhone app, Apple’s platform integration lets you read and reply to conversations in Messages on other Apple devices, including the Mac and iPad. All your devices must have the correct settings to make this work reliably. We regularly hear from users who don’t see all their […]

Apple Announces New MacBook Air Lineup with M3 Chip

March 5, 2024 / April 22, 2026 by Red Piston | Leave a Comment

In November 2023, Apple unveiled the M3 chip in new versions of the 24-inch iMac and MacBook Pro, causing speculation about when other Mac models would be updated to match. If you’ve been longing for a MacBook Air with an M3 chip, your wait is over. (And we expect Apple to update the Mac mini […]

Best Practices for Office 365 Delegation

January 11, 2024 / April 22, 2026 by Red Piston | Leave a Comment

I’d like to take a moment to share some observations regarding recent changes implemented by Microsoft, which may have implications for the way users and admins navigate and utilize their 0365 suite of tools. I want to share the best practices for creating mailbox delegations that work well for me personally. The key is to […]

How can I check if my Apple product has warranty?

May 10, 2019 / April 22, 2026 by Red Piston | Leave a Comment

You may not be sure of the exact date of purchase of your Apple product. The good news is you may not need to dig out that receipt from the depths of your basement. Usually the date of purchase on Apple’s record is pretty accurate, that means when you come in for your appointment, we […]

What To Do If Mac Calendar (iCal) Is Not Finding Events

May 2, 2019 / April 22, 2026 by Red Piston | Leave a Comment

When I search in my calendar the events do not show up! This can be an issue with the Spotlight indexing, I would suggest to re-index the spotlight index. This can be done with the following command in terminal: sudo mdutil -i on / The other way to do it is to exclude your hard […]

My iPhone battery is swelling. Can it be fixed?

April 23, 2019 / April 22, 2026 by Red Piston | Leave a Comment

When a battery begins to swell it can begin to cause damage to the device itself and present the possibility of exposure to the user or technician. Should your unit exhibit the symptoms of a swollen battery (lifting display, unit unexpectedly rebooting), Apple has authorized the replacement of the entire unit. If the iPhone is […]