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How to Turn Off Siri on Your iPhone, iPad and Mac

Siri is very useful for performing a wide range of functions, from sending text messages to locating your phone, all by voice commands. The voice assistant has consistently grown and now supports over twenty-one languages. While Siri is very powerful, it might not work that great for some people due to accent issues, and thus might be more of a nuisance. Some might also be concerned over privacy issues, and may just want to disable Siri. Here we cover how to disable Siri on your iOS devices and Mac. How to Turn Off Siri on Your iOS Device You can choose to turn off Siri… Read more

How to Scan Your Local Network with Terminal on macOS

The Terminal in macOS is one handy tool that few people make use of. Here we will show you how you can use the Terminal in macOS to scan your local network for troubleshooting, maintenance and general curiosity. It works a little differently from Linux’s utilities, with different flags in some cases, so don’t assume Linux skills will be accurate on macOS. Scan Your Local Network’s Open Ports with nmap nmap is the king of command-line port scanners on macOS, but you’ll need to install it first. Install nmap with Homebrew If you have Homebrew installed, run brew install nmap to download and install nmap… Read more

How to Open Any Folder in Finder from Mac Terminal

The standard way to open any directory on a Mac is by opening a Finder window and using it to navigate to a specific location on your hard drive. However, there’s also an alternate way to open folders – by using Terminal. While this isn’t something that will be used in your daily routine, if you are a developer (or someone who uses the Terminal frequently), this trick can be very useful. Related: How to Remap the Fn Keys on macOS Here we’ll show you how to use the open command to open any directory directly from Terminal, bypassing… Read more

How to Remap the Fn Keys on macOS

All of the Fn keys on a Mac are mapped by default to perform specific functions that can be quickly accessible by users. For example, the F1 and F2 keys, when pressed, increase and decrease your screen’s brightness respectively. While some of the Fn keys and their associated functions are used regularly, some of them, like F3 – Expose view, might not be used that much, and it will be more useful to remap it to perform another function. Here we’ll show you how to remap the Fn keys on your macOS. Related: How to Add Options to macOS’s Services Menu The first thing we… Read more

8 of the Best Alfred Workflows to Be More Productive on Mac

There’s no shortage of apps that help make macOS a productivity dream, but few do it as well as Alfred. Think of Alfred as an application that makes it look as if Spotlight has been given a shot of steroids. Alfred will make you ten times more productive, with hundreds of custom actions, best known as workflows. Alfred Workflows are similar to Google Chrome extensions. Fortunately, there’s a huge community of folks all over the world that have already written workflows, and they’re a breeze to install. If a workflow doesn’t exist, writing your own is something even Alfred novices… Read more