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  • Customize your iOS Control Center

      Your iPhone or iPad has a control center that can quickly give you access to some of your most frequently used features….

  • Mac Start-up Key Combos

      As I use the new beta of Mac OS X 10.15 Catalina I do find myself restarting my Mac more than usual…

  • Accessibility Features for Apple Watch

    We have talked about Apple’s unique commitment to accessibility for all of their products but so far we have concentrated upon the main…

  • Apple Beats the Street

    Apple announced their 2nd quarter financial results on Tuesday and once again they outperformed the expectations of the analysts. For the quarter, Apple had…

  • August View First Impressions

    This past weekend I installed a new smart home device, the August View. During my travels last month for various events and vendor…

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  • Apple Wants Your TV

    Well, actually Apple wants you to buy-in to their vision of TV for the future.  So many of us are cutting the cord…

  • Kibbles & Bytes 1127 Intro

    Grace and I have a few more days alone and then we have a bunch of visitors coming for the holidays and through the first part of the new year. Key West is making plans to improve its bike paths and bicycle access with the goal of making the city the most bicycle friendly in the USA. It is such a small and very flat island that biking is the best way to get around. Parking is so tough that bikes are essential even with a resident sticker.

    How about those Boston Celtics, though? After suffering a miserable start, they seem to have suddenly gotten their act together and wiped off 7 straight.

    Thank you so much for reading this issue of Kibbles & Bytes!

    Your Kibbles & Bytes Team,

    Don & Emily

  • Recover Drive Space by Deleting Old iOS Backups

    If you’ve been good about backing up your iOS devices to iTunes on your Mac or to iCloud, give yourself a gold star! Both backup destinations are fine, but there’s one potential downside to iTunes backups: they can consume a lot of space on your Mac’s drive. In iTunes, go to iTunes> Preferences > Devices, where you’ll see all the iOS device backups that iTunes has stored. If there are multiple older backups or any for devices you no longer own, you can get rid of them. Control-click the offending backup, and choose Delete. Or, if you want to check how large a backup is first, instead choose Show In Finder, and then in the Finder, choose File > Get Info. When you’re ready, move the selected backup folder to the Trash.