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Jeff Butts
Jeff Butts is a seasoned tech aficionado with deep roots in the Apple ecosystem. Starting his journey in the early 1980s by experimenting with hardware, Jeff has always been driven by a desire to get the most out of technological devices. His expertise has led him to prominent roles in the industry, including a nearly three-year stint as a Reporter at AppAdvice and an impressive seven-year tenure as a Writer/Editor for Byrnes Publishing, LLC. More recently, Jeff lent his technical insights to HotHardware, Inc. as a Tech Editor. With his extensive experience and unwavering commitment to providing valuable content, Jeff continues to be a trusted voice for readers keen on Apple products and innovations.
Articles by Jeff Butts
macOS: How to Create Your Own Keyboard Shortcuts
Here’s what you need to know to make your own custom keyboard shortcuts for Mac apps.
UNIX on Older Macs, the TMO Hackintosh, and Recording Your iOS Screen - Terminal Tinkering 1
In the first episode of Terminal Tinkering, Jeff Butts dives right into technology new, old, and different.
Apple's Secret Gym: An Example of Excellence
Metabolic carts, ECGs, and a $40,000 sensor mask are just a few of the things you’ll find in Apple’s secret gym, along with the usual fare of rowers, stationary bikes, and cable machines.
macOS: Hiding All-Day Events in Calendar
Need to temporarily hide All-Day events in Calendar on your Mac? Melissa Holt shows you how to declutter your schedule.
iOS: How to Retrieve Purchased Ringtones
It took some digging and searching, but Jeff Butts found out how to get back those purchased ringtones, almost by accident.
My USPS Lets You Preview Your Snail Mail
Believe it or not, the United States Postal Service actually takes a picture of every piece of mail you receive, and lets you view those images in most areas — slightly creepy, but very cool.
Update Hackintosh High Sierra, the Painless Way
This used to be a no-brainer, but Apple has made it slightly more difficult with the latest builds.
macOS: How to Hide Rows in Numbers
Melissa Holt shows you how to hide rows in your Numbers spreadsheets on your Mac, and throws in Excel and Google Sheets, too.
Change the way macOS Displays Date and Time
Another hidden gem of a setting, you don’t even need to use the Terminal to change your date and time display preferences.
macOS: Inserting Line Breaks in Messages
This Quick Tip is all about a keyboard shortcut you can use in Messages on the Mac to insert a line break. So if you keep pressing Return hoping it works the same way as it does on iOS (and sending messages too early!), we’ve got the solution for you.
On a Thousand-Dollar iPhone and If It Will Be Worth it
Jeff Butts muses on this, debating whether or not the premium iPhone 8 will be something he’ll upgrade to.
iOS: How to Prevent Your Child from Disabling Find My Friends
In case tracking your kid’s device at all times is necessary, this is how you’ll prevent anything being changed or disabled.
Archive, Compress, and Password-Protect Your Files With Automator
There’s a right way and a wrong way to password-protect your files, so let’s focus on the right, stronger way to get the job done.
More Details on iPhone 8 Facial Recognition Emerge
We already suspect the iPhone 8 facial recognition system will use infrared, but now we have reason to believe it’ll be lightning fast, too.
iOS 11 iPad Multitasking Explained
The way you work with multiple apps on your iOS 11 iPad has changed slightly, with some good changes but also a few that make Jeff Butts shake his head a bit.
iOS: How to Duplicate a Live Photo as a Still One
In Photos under iOS, you can easily duplicate a Live Image as a still one. So if you’d like to preserve the extra info in your live shot while creating a still version, you can!
iOS 10: Change Your AirPods' Behavior
If you’ve got some of Apple’s awesome little AirPods, you should know that you can change how they work; you could adjust what happens when you double-tap them, for example. That’s the subject of today’s Quick Tip!
Watch All of the ARKit Demos We Can Find in one Place
ARKit, Apple’s answer to augmented reality (AR) on iOS, has become tremendously popular already. Folks have posted quite a few ARKit demos on YouTube since Apple’s announcement of of the software development kit at WWDC 2017. We’ve covered many of these demonstrations in previous articles. This morning, though, I needed a YouTube playlist of them for an article at AppAdvice about IDC’s report that Augmented and Virtual Reality are going to see some serious increase in revenues. Not finding one, I decided to create my own. Since I love all of you, I decided to share that YouTube playlist with you. Without further ado, here it is. We will add to it as more ARKit demonstrations come on our radar.
Three Real World Practical Uses for Arduino
Jeff Butts has spent quite a few sleepless nights working with Arduino, ever since he got his Sparkfun Inventor’s Kit, and has some great insight on practical ways you can put the programmable logic board to work.
How to Use Redial on the iPhone
There’s a hidden redial feature in the iPhone’s Phone app keypad, and Melissa Holt shows you how it works.
Batch Convert Image Files in macOS: A How-To
If you love tinkering in the Terminal and ever need to batch convert image files, this trick is right up your alley.
A Video Tour of Changes in Newest iOS 11 Betas
Believe it or not, quite a few differences have been pointed out between iOS 11 betas 4 and 5.
iOS: How to Edit a Playlist's Image
This Quick Tip is all about adding a custom image to your iOS playlists, so if you don’t like the look of the default album artwork Apple uses, you can switch it up! We’ve got the music-picture-changin’ details inside.