Tired of iOS trying to undo your last action every time you give your iPhone or iPad a little shake? Here’s how to turn off the Shake to Undo feature in iOS 9.
How to Reduce Transparency in OS X El Capitan
OS X El Capitan continues Apple’s recent tradition of adding subtle transparency effects throughout the operating system. While these visual effects create an interesting sense of depth, some users may prefer a more traditional opaque look. Here’s how to reduce transparency in OS X El Capitan.
How to Stop Your Cursor from Getting Bigger in OS X El Capitan
Have you noticed after upgrading to OS X El Capitan that your cursor sometimes gets really big? You’re (probably) not going crazy, it’s just a new feature Apple introduced in its latest desktop operating system. While helpful for some, this new “shake to locate cursor” feature can be annoying for longtime users. Here’s how to turn it off.
Make Items on the Screen Bigger with Windows Magnifier
Having trouble reading text or making out fine details in Windows? Instead of lowering your resolution to make everything bigger, which can introduce image quality issues, use the built-in Windows Magnifier utility to selectively zoom in on certain portions of your screen while leaving everything else at native resolution.
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How to Enable Common iOS Accessibility Options via iTunes
Apple has long made accessibility features in its products a priority, and there are many accessibility options available in iOS. But instead of navigating through iOS Settings menus, here’s how you can enable or disable common iOS accessibility options directly from iTunes on your PC or Mac.
Enable the iOS Invert Colors Shortcut and Save Your Eyes from a Bright iPhone Screen
There’s nothing quite as jarring as waking up to check an important email in the middle of the night and being greeted by a bright white iPhone screen. Save your eyes and learn to leverage the iOS Accessibility feature that let you invert your screen’s colors with a simple and easy home button shortcut.
Increase Your iPhone’s Visibility by Enabling LED Flash Alerts
Accessibility has always been an important factor for Apple when it comes to designing hardware and software, and both iOS and OS X include a number of modes and options to increase usability for those with unique needs. While some of these accessibility options are primarily beneficial to only certain users, others can be helpful to all users regardless of need or circumstances. One such example is LED flash alerts on the iPhone.
Make iDevice Navigation Easier By Enabling iOS Button Shapes
With its recent shift to a flat and modern design, Apple may have gone too far when it comes to buttonless buttons in iOS 7 and iOS 8. Here’s how users frustrated by this change can get back some semblance of graphical buttons in iOS, by enabling what Apple calls “button shapes.”
Enhance the Legibility of iOS 7 by Enabling Bold Fonts
The new modern design of iOS 7 looks cool, but its thin and light fonts can be hard to read for many people. Here’s how to make things easier to see by using an option to enable bold fonts in the iOS user interface.
How to Enable Access for Assistive Devices in OS X Mavericks
After upgrading to the OS X 10.9 Mavericks Developer Preview, we proceeded to install one of our favorite everyday OS X apps: SizeUp. This neat little app, which we’ve used for years, allows you to quickly snap and position windows on your screen using keyboard shortcuts. SizeUp uses OS X’s GUI scripting control features to work its magic, and it requires you to “enable access for assistive devices” in System Preferences each time you install it on a new computer.…