Domain Name Servers (DNS) bind the internet together. They match machine-usable IPv4 and IPv6 addresses with human-readable domain names. It's the internet's equivalent of the phone book. But, while ...

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Device in Disarray? How to Use the Files App on Your iPhone or iPad The Files app offers a convenient way to work with your files and connect to online services and external drives. Here's how to ...

Apple's Apple Files can get documents from many online storage systems, not just iCloud Drive. Graphic: Ed Hardy/Cult of Mac The Files app can reach documents stored on more than just iCloud Drive. It ...

Spotlight is Apple's smart search indexer for macOS. Here's how to use its metadata utilities to get more information about your documents. Spotlight runs in the background on your Mac or iOS device ...

Apple was the first computer company to make networked file sharing easy. Decades after introducing that feature on the Mac, it’s less important in an era of cloud storage. Unless you’re on a ...

When Mac users think about search in macOS, they often think about Spotlight, but there's another way. Here's how to use the Finder's built-in search instead. Spotlight is Apple's file indexing and ...

Slack is the de-facto standard for team collaboration and communication. With the platform, you can keep in contact with your fellow team members (or family members and friends) and help improve the ...