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Student Gear: Essentials for a Successful School Year

Back to school shopping for my kids is pretty different than it was during my own academic career. In my day, we’d select notebooks, folders, pencils, and pens. These days? Kids have a lot more options, to say the least! Smart supplies and tools are available for every part of the school day, from waking up in the morning, to lunchtime, to practices, to field trips, to hitting the hay at the end of the day.

Crush Your 2025 Health Goals with the Withings Body Scan

(Sponsored Post) By Amy Spitzfaden Both on Thu, 01/09/2025

Your 2025 health goals deserve so much more than just a number on a scale. Withings is here to support all your body resolutions with a revolutionary health analysis. The Withings Body Scan revolutionizes home health checkups in a powerful, incredibly simple experience, directly from your home, in just 90 seconds.

Protect Your iCloud Data

By Rhett Intriago

Secure Your Apple ID with Advanced Data Protection (2023)

Apple has added the option to lock down your iCloud data, which protects everything in your account, including photos, videos, documents, messages, and more. Advanced Data Protection uses end-to-end encryption to safeguard your iCloud. This means no one, not even Apple, can access your data, so if there is ever a security breach at Apple, your data will still be safe. The only way to get to your iCloud will be through your Apple ID password.

How to Turn Off Password on MacBook (2023)

If you have a communal Mac, are tired of having to enter your password every time you log in, or you just aren't particularly concerned with security, you may want to know how to remove the Macbook password at login. While this means your information may be more easily accessible, for many of us, our computers never leave our homes. If you're okay with the risks, we'll walk through how to remove the password from Mac.

My iPhone Won’t Make Calls but Will Text! Find the Fix Here (2023)

Your iPhone, like every piece of technology, can sometimes behave unpredictably. One way you may experience strange behavior is when your iPhone won’t make calls but will text. If you can send and receive texts, shouldn’t you be able to make and receive phone calls too? Let’s go over how to troubleshoot this odd occurrence in the article below.

How to Zoom Out on a Mac: Window & Whole Screen (2023)

Sometimes, the text on your computer is just too large or too small for your reading pleasure. Or, perhaps your screen got stuck zoomed in and now you need to zoom it back out. Also, did you know you can zoom in the whole screen on a Mac? There are a bunch of options if you need to know how to zoom in with a Mac or zoom out on a Mac. We'll show you how to zoom out on a single window open on your Mac, or zoom in or out on the whole Mac screen. Plus, we'll go over Hover Text, which is a nice middle ground option. Here's all the ways you can zoom out of a Mac.

How to Make Google Maps Default on iPhone (Even Though Apple Won't Let You)

Apple Maps has its strengths and weaknesses, and those weaknesses may lead you to prefer Google Maps. It can be a pain to separately open the app and type in an address every time you want to navigate, so you might be wondering how to change your default map on your iPhone. Unfortunately, you can't officially do this, but you can make it so every navigation you launch from your mail or your web browsing takes you straight to Google Maps. Here's how to set Google Maps as the default on your iPhone by working around Apple's limitations.

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