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 Client Marg R asked me to cover this topic about the Pages app.
She was struggling to work out how to add a new Page to her document, and then how to remove pages that she does not need. So I have recorded a video tutorial that goes through these topics for both iPad and for Mac.
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 With the school holidays and children spending lots of time on devices, I have assisted several parents lately with setting up Screen Time for the Apple devices that the children use.
One of these parents contacted me after we had established the Screen Time controls to let me know that her 11yo daughter was somehow circumventing the controls and finding ways of using the Messages app well beyond the time limit that had been set. Unfortunately, clever kids will always find a way. They are experts at Googling, and will find any online 'hacks' that have been shared. In fact, the most popular article on this iTandCoffee blog is one titled "How your Kids can by-pass the Ask-to-Buy requirement of Family Sharing" - it is read hundreds of times a week, I suspect by more children than adults! So, how did this child get around the limits that Mum had put in place for the Messages app?  Clients Caroline and Chris asked iTandCoffee similar questions last week.
Caroline wanted to know how to find a location that gives good mobile signal when she is travelling, and Chris needed to prove, after switching to Optus, that her Optus signal was weaker than that she previously had with Telstra at her regional Victorian home address. 
If you need any convincing of the reason why you need to have different passwords for all your online accounts, there is a website that allows you to check if your email address (or username) has been found on any list of stolen credentials.
I just did a check of my own email addresses, and found that my credentials have been stolen from the following well-known sites:
 Just last week, I went to use my new AirPods Pro for a Zoom meeting. I had already done this multiple times without issue.
However, this time, I found that I could not connect to the AirPods - no matter what I did! Not only would they not connect to my MacBook Pro - they would not connect to ANY of my Apple devices. When I took them out of their case, the light on the case was flashing orange. Nothing I did seemed to help - even following the instructions on the Apple Support website for re-setting and re-pairing the device would not work. A call to Apple's help line did not, initially, shed any light on how to resolve the problem. I about 40 minutes on the phone to the level 1 support agent with no positive result. It was only when I was transferred to an engineer that the problem was resolved with a relatively simple fix, but one that I did not see mentioned anywhere during hours of trawling the internet for solutions. Here's the solution, for anyone else who encounters this problem.  Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay I recently purchased a new iPad, and set it up using an iCloud backup.
I like to have my key apps on the first and second Home Screens and then other apps grouped from the third screen onwards. My restore from iCloud had removed all these groupings and left my apps spread across about 15 Home Screen (yes, I know that's a lot of apps - certainly time for a clean-out!). So I set about finding my key apps to put them on the first two Home Screens, but found it difficult to find them across the multitude of home screens. It was like finding a needle in a haystack. The solution? I decided to sort the apps into alphabetical order, which made it so much easier to find them. Here's how I did this. 3/7/2020 0 Comments We've scheduled the first 'Boot Camps' for Microsoft 365 - Register your place this week
Are you looking to establish and enhance your skills in Microsoft Word and/or Microsoft Excel?
We have just scheduled our first series of Boot Camp sessions for Microsoft 365 products, to help you establish and improve your Microsoft Word and Microsoft skills over two 8-week series of classes.
These 1-hour online sessions (using Zoom Meetings - so you can attend from anywhere!) will demonstrate and explain key features of Word and Excel, provide an opportunity to practice learnings, and to get your questions answered. All who attend will receive the video of the class afterwards.  At the Photos on the Mac class series run recently by iTandCoffee, an attendee at these online classes wanted to know how to get photos onto her Mac from her Android device.
Here's the answer to that question. 21/6/2020 0 Comments Quickly deleting files, folders and photos on the Mac - and how to delete characters to the right of your cursor position We recently ran the Getting to Know your Mac class series online using Zoom, over 4 weeks in May/June 2020. Everyone who attended found the online format even better than the 'in person' option - so we will continue running such classes online for the foreseeable future.
One of the common questions asked during this class series relates to deleting files and folders - whether there is quick way to delete files, one that avoids having to drag the file/folder to the trash can at bottom right! Just hitting the delete key on the keyboard doesn't allow such deletion. Another common question is about how to delete characters to the right on Mac given that, unlike with a Windows keyboard, there are not separate keys for 'backspace' and 'delete'. There is only the delete key, which deletes text to the left.  One of the tips we covered in the Exploring some amazing hidden Secrets of the iPad and iPhone PTT session recently was about a recent change to the iPad that now allows your Home Screen to include the 'Today' view - showing you information from key apps that you select, such as weather, calendar, news or any other app that provides a 'widget' for inclusion in the Today view.
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