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How to Get Back to Siri’s Web Results Quickly

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How to Get Back to Siri’s Web Results Quickly

  Ask Siri to search the Web and you’ll get five results back from Google (not Bing anymore!). Tap one and it opens in Safari. But what if that page doesn’t contain the information you want? How do you get back to Siri’s results? The easy way is to tap the little Siri button that appears in the top-left of the screen. Or activate Siri again, but instead of speaking, swipe down on the screen until “What can I help you with?” disappears and your recent Siri queries appear with your last search results in view.

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What Is a Fusion Drive, and Why Should You Care?

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What Is a Fusion Drive, and Why Should You Care?

There are two basic types of storage devices available today: hard disk drives and solid-state drives. For the lowest cost per gigabyte, you can’t go wrong with a hard drive, and they come in truly massive sizes—up to a whopping 8 terabytes. However, they’re relatively slow.For speed, you want a solid-state drive, also known as an SSD. Because SSDs rely on flash storage, a type of non-volatile memory whose chips retain data without power, they’re lightning fast. But chips are more expensive than hard disk platters and read/write heads, so the $250–$300 that will get you an 8 TB hard...

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Count Selected Items in a Folder with the Finder’s Status Bar

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Count Selected Items in a Folder with the Finder’s Status Bar

When you work in a Finder window on the Mac, take note of the helpful Status bar. It can tell you how many items are in a folder, as well as how many items you have selected. This latter bit of information is useful if, say, you need to move five items to another folder and you want to verify that you’ve selected all five. The Status bar also shows the amount of free space remaining on your drive and provides a slider to change icon size if the window is in Icon view. Look for the Status bar at...

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Finder Secrets: Navigating Your Folder Hierarchy with the Path Bar

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Finder Secrets: Navigating Your Folder Hierarchy with the Path Bar

Finder Secrets: Navigating Your Folder Hierarchy with the Path BarApple is known for creating clever little features that do a lot more than most people realize. Learn these, and you’ll be the master of your Mac. And more important, you’ll get your work done more quickly!Have you ever noticed the Path Bar at the bottom of Finder windows? It may or may not be showing—if not, choose View > Show Path Bar to reveal it. The Path Bar has two basic goals in life:It wants to show where you are in your drive’s folder hierarchy. As you navigate into nested...

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Try This Quick Shortcut for Turning Off iPhone Alarms

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Try This Quick Shortcut for Turning Off iPhone Alarms

Try This Quick Shortcut for Turning Off iPhone AlarmsIf you’re like us, your iPhone has replaced that old digital alarm clock by your bedside. But one way that the iPhone doesn’t match up is the ease of thwacking a big Off button to stop the annoying wake-up noise. Happily, you don’t have to open your eyes and find the Stop button to silence the alarm—instead, just reach out and press the Home button. Need more assistance with your iPhone? Book a one-to-one session with one of our Apple Experts.  

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