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If you're fresh from Windows, you're probably used to right-clicking your mouse to pull up contextual menus and other actions. You can do the same on the Mac, even without a right mouse button. Here's how! If you've just switched to the Mac, you may find yourself a bit confused by how the Mac's mice and trackpad work. The Mac famously doesn't come with a mouse or trackpad that has a distinct right-mouse button. But that doesn't mean you can't right-click on the Mac. Whether you use the built-in trackpad on your Mac laptop, a Magic Trackpad, a Magic Mouse, or a third-party mouse that has a distinct right button, here's how to enable right-click menus on your Mac. How…

Young people who just might change the world, apps to help you achieve more and a first-of-its-kind musical performance were just a few of this week’s highlights. Before you settle into a relaxing weekend, take a look back at the news and find some great reasons to feel inspired. Ten teens and young adults with cool ideas to do good in the world won Microsoft’s YouthSpark Challenge for Change contest. Winner Abhishek Paudel is now even more dedicated to bringing health care to remote areas of Nepal after the April earthquake destroyed his family’s entire village, and Dana Berejka, who learned about the sad toll of malaria when a little girl she was corresponding wi…

Every week on the App Store, an app or game goes free for seven days. This week, that game is Hyper Square, where you race against the clock to move squares to their targets. Hyper Square is a game of reflexes giving you a limited amount of time to move the on-screen squares into the target boxes. The game is spread out over multiple levels, each divided into different phases. As you score points, you get closer to unlocking the next level of the game. The game relies on audio to create a more immersive experience. Here's more of what players can expect from Hyper Square: FEATURES Immersive audio visual experience that evolves as you play Intense arcad…

Google has updated their Inbox email app, opening it up to all users and adding a few new and useful features. Google's Inbox app for Gmail has been updated, opening the app up to all users, no invitation required. The app has also added new features like Trip Bundles, which groups all email messages about a trip. There are also new settings for swiping to delete and setting your signature. Check out all of the changes in Inbox 1.3 below: Introducing Trip Bundles - emails about a trip are bundled with important details highlighted New setting to swipe to delete New setting to set your signature Undo Send - take back a message up to a few seconds after sending…

Glances are convenient ways to find the information you want, when you want it. And part of that is organizing them the way you want them Glances appear on your Apple Watch, from left to right, in the same order as they appear in the Apple Watch for iPhone app, from top to bottom. Settings can't move, so it's always first on the left — and top of the list. To move Glances to the left, move them higher on the list. To move them to the right, move them lower on the list. It's simple once you get the hang of it. How to organize Glances on your Apple Watch Launch the Apple Watch app on your iPhone. Tap on the My Watch tab. Tap on Glances Find the Glance you want …

The new 15-inch MacBook Pro with Force Touch trackpad is the latest Apple device to support Dell's 27-inch 5K monitor. Apple's new 15-inch MacBook Pro is the latest Apple device to support the 27-inch 5K display from Dell. As with the Retina iMac and Mac Pro, support for Dell's display requires the use of two Thunderbolt ports. Note that this requires the version of the 15-inch MacBook Pro with the AMD Radeon R9 M370X. That graphics chip is also required to operate Single-Stream 4K displays with a resolution of 4096x2160 at 60Hz. Apple's new MacBook Pro launched earlier this month. It features the new Force Touch trackpad, along with faster flash storage, longer …

If you use location sharing with family and friends, you'll want to make sure iOS is sharing from the right device. There are lots of reasons you may want to share your location through the Messages app or Find My Friends. For example, sharing a location is a lot faster than manually typing out a location to someone. If you have more than one iOS device, maybe an iPhone and an iPad for example, you may want to change which one is used for default location sharing. Location sharing works for almost all devices but in order to use some features of location sharing, like Family Sharing, you'll have to be running iOS 8 or newer. It's also worth noting that if you're i…

Now you can charge your Lightning device without worrying about knots and tangles! Ventev's Charging Data Cable provides 6 feet of convenient charging and syncing whenever you need it. The cable's flat design makes it easy to maneuver around obstacles and even easier to store away for traveling purposes. Available today for $14.95 Continue reading...

Here's how the iMore team uses their Apple products for daily productivity. Though we all use Apple's Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch in our day-to-day work lives, that routine varies from person to person. We got the iMore team (and bonus guest, iMore contributor Rich Stevens)together for this week's editors' roundtable to talk productivity and workspaces: what we like to use, how we like to use it, and how we've built it. What hardware do you have? Ren: I'm constantly shifting between an 2014 11-inch MacBook Air and my 21-inch iMac, depending on whether I'm working at my standing desk (iMac) or curled up somewhere in my apartment or a coffee shop trying …

Apple's bid to remove the antitrust monitor installed at the company has been rejected by a federal appeals court. Apple's efforts to remove Michael Bromwich, the antitrust monitor appointed to the company by a U.S. federal judge, have been rejected by an appeals court. Bromwich was installed at the company following a court's finding that Apple had violated U.S. antitrust law in their ebook deals with publishers. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that an early rejection of the bid was not an abuse of judicial discretion, according to Reuters: The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York said a lower court judge did not abuse her discretion in rejec…

So many iPhone and iPad games, so little time. Tired of scrolling through titles and top ten lists, unsure which games for iPhone and iPad are worth your money or download? I'm here to separate the wheat from the chaff, the gems from the rocks: Here are my picks for week's best iOS games — the ones that stick out from the crowd with memorable mechanics, cute graphics, clever story-lines, catchy music, and more. 1. Ball King Ball King starts out fairly straightforward: You control the trajectory of a basketball into a hoop. Soon, that basketball gets replaced by a baseball... then a bucket of popcorn... then a vinyl record. After a few successful swishes, th…

The iMore show brings you everything you need to know about the week in iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple! On this episode — iOS 8 Unicode bug and what you need to know, Jony Ive as Chief Design Officer, and the first part of our WWDC 2015 preview! With Serenity Caldwell, Peter Cohen, and Rene Ritchie. Support the iMore show: Download Dashlane for free at dashlane.com/imore right now! Check out Red Hat for your enterprise needs! Subscribe in iTunes: Audio Subscribe in RSS: Audio Download directly: Audio Show notes iOS 8 Unicode bug Jony Ive, Chief Design Officer WWDC 2015 iOS 9 OS X 10.11 Apple TV Apple Watch Hosts Serenity Caldwell Peter Cohen R…

GM's CEO has revealed that 14 Chevy models will come equipped with CarPlay when they debut later this year. Mary Barra, CEO of GM, says that Chevy will introduce 14 new cars this year equipped with CarPlay later this year. This will allow customers to use several features of their iPhone in their vehicle. All of the cars will be in the 2016 model year, and will include Chevy's Cruze, Malibu, Camaro, and Volt lines. From USA Today: The partnership with Apple and Google across 2016 Chevy models ranging from the $15,000 Spark to the $55,000 Corvette is part of the automaker's efforts to make the tech available to as broad a consumer base as possible. GM'…

People who can use the direct payment features in the Facebook Messenger app now have some new options to check out. In March, Facebook began its slow rollout of its new direct payment features inside its Messenger app. Today, it is adding some more options to those features, along with expanding its reach to include more people. Messenger added ways for some users to either send or receive money directly from the app by adding their Visa or MasterCard debit card information. Here's what's been added as part of today's update: Now in your Messenger conversations, dollar amounts are automatically hyperlinked and when tapped, will start a payment for that amount to…

Jeff Williams, Apple's Senior Vice President of Operations, said at Re/code's Code Conference that native apps for the Apple Watch will arrive in the fall. Speaking at the Code Conference, Apple's SVP of Operations Jeff Williams revealed that developers would get a preview of an SDK for building native Apple Watch apps. Unlike current watch apps, these apps will not solely rely on the iPhone to run, and will have access to some of the Apple Watch's sensors. Williams said that developers will get a preview of this at WWDC 2015, with a release coming this fall. From Re/code: He also confirmed that Apple will release a preview next week of a developer kit that wi…

Apple has updated their WWDC application with support for the Apple Watch, letting you view the schedule for sessions and labs right on your wrist. The WWDC app is ready for WWDC 2015 and the Apple Watch, letting you view the conference schedule right on your wrist. Using the app on the watch lets you view the schedule of sessions and labs, as well as the activities you've marked as a favorite. Check out Apple's full notes on the release below: The WWDC app is now available for Apple Watch, so you can access conference information right from your wrist. You can also add sessions to Calendar, listen to session audio after you've left the app or locked your …

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Apple has rolled back networking code in the latest Yosemite beta to technology used since Jaguar. On Tuesday Apple released a new beta version of OS X Yosemite. The new 10.10.4 release, build 14E26a, went into the hands of developers and Mac users who are signed up for Apple's AppleSeed public testing program. And it makes an important change to OS X's underlying network technology that may yield improvements for those of us who have been suffering a host of problems for the past several months. Specifically, a key piece of networking code called discoveryd is gone. In its place is mDNSResponder, the old code that was in Mavericks and every OS X release since Mac…

Here's what you need to know about preventing and recovering from the iOS 8 Unicode crash bug. While Apple is working on a fix for the bug that causes Messages and notifications to crash iOS 8, there are several things you can do right now to help prevent your iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch from being affected, and to try to recover if you've already been affected. Unless you have reason to believe you're a target, you probably only need to do this until your friends' attention span lapses and they move on to the next prank. We've had luck with these methods. They may or may not work for everybody. Other people may or may not have had luck with other methods, up to …

Google will be indexing apps for iPhone and iPad, which will let users open specific app content from a Google search. In both the Google Search and Chrome apps for iPhone and iPad, users will have the ability to open another app based on the search they have performed. For instance, if you do a search for making a reservation at a specific restaurant, your results may give you the option to make the reservation on that restaurant's page in the OpenTable app. Indexed content will begin appearing in search results over the next few weeks, according to Google: Starting today, we're bringing App Indexing to iOS apps as well. This means users on both Android a…

I can't help but keep coming back to the Watch: There are problems to solve, challenges to face. Why not write about them? I've seen a number of complaints lately while browsing Twitter — and even iMore's own forums — about the sheer volume of Apple Watch coverage undertaken by this site and others. Though we've done these kinds of massive rollouts before for the iPad, and the iPhone before it, only a few million people have a Watch in their hands right now. Others have little to any desire to try one on, let alone own one. So why do we keep talking and writing about this tiny auxiliary device when so few have it in their possession? Why is it so interesting? Cha…

Dripthat is a new social network and app that lets you easily share photos and videos with family and friends. With Dripthat, you share little "drips," small collections of photos and videos. You can choose to share drips publicly, or with a specific group of friends and family. Dripthat makes it easy to find your friends, and also suggests new people to follow based on what's trending. Here's what you can expect from Dripthat: Share and receive moments in groups rather than one at a time Share a drip privately to friends and family or publicly with your followers Find people to follow based on what's "trending" Keep in touch with friends and family Easi…