Bon Adamson's early days in the tech world were marked by a pursuit of knowledge that led him to earn multiple IT certifications. His time spent working at IT help desks has provided him with invaluable insights into the everyday challenges faced by users.
He has been writing for the majority of his life and is trained in numerous writing disciplines running from journalism to academic history writing. Bon studied at the University of Missouri in Columbia, at their renowned Missouri School of Journalism. While there, he also studied History.
Bon also has bylines in SlashGear and Pocket-Lint.
No matter how long you've been reading, no matter how vast your vocabulary is, you'll always find words you just don't know from time to time. The Mac's built-in Dictionary app makes those moments exceedingly temporary.
For many, the best email app is the one that came on your iPhone, Apple's own Mail app. To get the most use out of the Mail app, you can set it up to have all of your email accounts and addresses in one place in it.
Owning any Apple product at all means you almost definitely have an Apple ID. Whether it be the email attached to your Apple ID being a little outdated or security concerns, changing it is no problem.
Whether it be ads or shoddy formatting, some web pages might not be that easy to decipher. Thankfully, there is a solution built right into Safari on your iPad.
It can be easy to get carried away with tagging files in Finder. If manually organizing them seems too daunting, you can always go back to square one.
There are few things worse than trying to copy a string of text from a PDF, only to find that you can't highlight any text at all. Thankfully, bypassing a locked PDF is easy enough to do on Mac.
Whether you're one of the many MacBook users of the world, or you just prefer the Magic Trackpad to a traditional mouse, there are many ways to make the trackpad experience on a Mac even better.
No matter what you use your Mac for, there may come a time when Command + Q just doesn't cut it. For closing out those persistently frozen apps that just won't go away, there are a couple of ways to get the job done.
On the surface, the default iOS Calculator app seems very simple. But, there are a few tricks up the Calculator app's sleeve.
Not everybody wants to use Safari, the Mac's default web browser, but switching completely to another one looks difficult — until you know how.
Taking a screen recording on your iPhone or iPad can be a fantastic feature, but sometimes you do need to record audio from your microphone alongside the screen recording itself. Thankfully, there is a way.
You've probably noticed the Services menu in right-clicks or the menu bar and wondered what it is. For shortcuts and more, it is a fantastic utility.
Believe it or not, there are ways you can make the Trash on your Mac more functional. Your Trash can be better, be it through skipping prompts or setting up some automation.
It's handy how apps like Apple Maps know where you are, but sometimes they know with more precision than you might be comfortable with. Whether intentional or not, you may have given an app access to your Precise Location. Thankfully, there is a way to hide it.
There are thousands of languages in the world, and chances are, you or someone you know speaks one other than English. If you want to have your Mac use that language, making the switch is easy enough to do.
One of the greatest things about the iPhone is the wealth of accessibility features available straight out of the box, and one of the most robust features made available in the iPhone's accessibility suite is voice commands. Here's how to set up voice commands in iOS 17.
If you've ever found yourself needing to change the capitalization of an entire block of text at the same time, you'll know it can be mind-numbingly tedious. Thankfully, there is a way to make things easier on Mac.
The release of iOS 17.2 introduced a few great new features to Apple Music and one potentially major annoyance. Here's how to keep favorited tracks from being added to your Apple Music library.
Depending on your Mac audio setup, the volume of alerts can be ear-shattering or too quiet to be noticed. Either way, there is a way to fix it in macOS Sonoma.
One of the best pieces of functionality that comes up with having a Mac and iPhone is seamless file transfer between both devices. Except for when it isn't.
Even if your home wasn't exactly built "smart," it is still possible to add HomeKit light switches without a neutral wire. Here's how.
Live transcription of speech or transcription of pre-existing audio files has become more and more advanced over time. Here are the best options on a Mac and how to use them.
While the biggest changes to notifications happened in iOS 15 and iPadOS 15, there are still some important tips to know for managing them within iOS 17 and iPadOS 17.
Just as macOS Sonoma has introduced gesture-based reactions in video calls, the same feature has come to iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 to add augmented reality graphics to your video calls. Here's how to use the feature on your iPhone or iPad.
The Screen Mirroring button in iOS 17 for iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max users has been removed from Control Center and replaced by a mute switch. Here's how to get it back.
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