 What is the Clipboard?
It is an area of your Mac's memory that stores whatever you last copied - ready to be pasted somewhere. If you copy again, the content of the clipboard changes so that the next paste will use the latest content that you copied. This could be text, an image, a file, etc. But what if you realise that you need to go back to something you copied a little while ago - perhaps something that you no longer have access to copy again? Here's how easy it is to access your Clipboard's history on your Mac
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 Late last week, I had a Telehealth appointment with my doctor. This doctor's clinic uses HotDoc for appointment bookings - an app that makes it so easy to make a time to see the doctor.
So when I got this email today from HotDoc, I opened it, briefly read it and thought it sounded reasonable that there had been an over-charging for the very brief phone appointment I had with the doctor, and I clicked the 'Confirm and Process Refund'. But the request for a piece of information seemed strange, and this stopped my in my tracks.  Only last week, I had decided I would purchase a new iPad Pro to replace my 6yo iPad Pro, as it was really starting to mis-behave and was very slow.
I had planned to make this purchase on Thursday 25th June - even adding the purchase to my 'Cart' in the Apple online store to see when it could be delivered. Instead, I decided I would visit the Apple Store to purchase on next day, Friday. On Friday morning (very early), I woke and saw the overnight announcement from Apple of a significant price rises for various devices, effective immediately. Apple's website already showed that the iPad I had planned to purchase had risen by a whopping $300!! It was still very early, so I decided check the JB Hi Fi website and found that, luckily, they had not yet applied Apple's increases to their prices. So I was able to jump online and arrange a click and collect at the old price! Phew. (Their prices have since increased.) Having collected my new iPad on Friday, I then set about getting it up and running. Here are some issues I encountered and some important Settings that I had to tweak to make it work the way my previous iPad worked.  A client contacted me to ask about a perceived problem she had with the Messages app.
She had received a text with a link, and had tried to tap the link on her iPhone, but found that the link wasn't active. She wanted to know what was causing this 'problem'. In fact, this is a feature and not a problem, designed to protect you from scams.  As many of you will be aware, I recently moved house. As part of that move, we sold nearly all of our old furniture - most on Facebook Marketplace.
It was a painful process - as anyone who has sold on Marketplace will know. One of the things that really seemed to help with selling the furniture items was presenting in a styled room - rather than just taking a picture of it on its own. Unfortunately, with furniture not is its usual place, presenting it styled was not an option. But ChatGPT helped with this.  If you have an iCloud email address, it is very easy to add up to 3 other 'alias' email addresses to your iCloud account.
Emails sent to these alias addresses will all come into the main iCloud email account, but you will see which address the email came to. If you use the Mail app, you will be able to send from any of those alias email addresses by adjusting the From address.  This is a problem that I see so frequently with iTandCoffee clients who have Gmail email accounts.
They use the Mail app on their iPhone and/or iPad to manage their Gmail emails, but find that they only have a box symbol in the Mail app instead of a bin symbol. This means that, instead of deleting unwanted emails, they are archiving them - which means they are not being deleted! Very frustrating. Here's how to quickly resolve this issue - and you'll need to do this on both the iPad and iPhone.  If you are a WhatsApp user, you may notice that any photos that are sent to you via your WhatsApp app seem to magically appear in you Photos library on you iPhone and iPad.
This can end up filling up your Photos library with lots of unwanted photos. You can stop this behaviour and selectively choose which (if any) WhatsApp photos go into your photos library. Here's how. 7/4/2026 0 Comments Discover Confidential Mode in Gmail PLUS Google introduces ability to change Gmail address Have you discovered 'confidential mode' for Gmail accounts? It is great for sending emails that have sensitive information, to make sure they are only seen by the intended recipient. This feature has been around for a few years, but many Gmail users are not aware of its existence or how to use it. We look at how to use it below.
And while we are talking Gmail has recently announced a change for US-based Gmail users that will be great news to many people. They can now change their Gmail email address! This feature will be coming to other regions at some point soon (I hope). Read on for more about this.  This is a feature that my daughter and I use very regularly. Whenever I visit her or she visits us, we each share our arrival time.
We do this from within Maps, but getting directions to our destination and then sharing our arrival time via Maps. This provides dynamic updates on sharer's arrival time to the 'sharee'. These updates - along with the current location and route being taken - are viewed within the Maps app. It's really easy to do - here's how. |
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Videos shown are offered for eligible members of the iTandCoffee Club. If you have questions, why not join fun and informative 'user group' meetings, held once a month. All iTandCoffee classes are run as online classes (using Zoom), which means you can attend from anywhere. |
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