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For macOS Sonoma, Apple changed the Mac so that clicking on the desktop activates Expose and hides all your apps. Fortunately, you can stop it — albeit with a workaround.
William Gallagher started out in the 1980s using Macs on a UK freesheet newspaper while also working for BBC Local Radio, and writing computer manuals for McDonnell Douglas on a Mac SE/30. He wrote assembly language routines for a professional publishing app in the mid-1980s, and contributed to BBC Television's Micro Live in 1987.
Working in London as features editor on PC Direct from 1990, he wrote technology articles for Macworld UK, PC Magazine, and Computer Life. He edited Educational Computing & Technology magazine and wrote about television drama for the British Film Institute and Paramount Comedy Network's teletext service.
Moving to the BBC's teletext service in 1994, he was a freelance broadcast journalist for BBC Ceefax, then BBC Digitext, and BBC News Online. Simultaneously, he was a producer on the BBC's Radio Times website, and he wrote the Radio Times television history column On This Day for five years.
In 2005 he launched one of the earliest podcasts, UK DVD Review, which charted in the top ten of all podcasts, in all categories, around the world. The show ran for five years and was favorably reviewed on BBC News and The Sunday Times. His work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times, and the UK's The Independent.
William Gallagher continues to freelance for the BBC, and makes regular contributions on BBC Local Radio stations around the country. In 2012, his first book about television drama was published by the British Film Institute, and it's been followed by 18 further titles on drama, writing, and technology. His books include four best-selling ebook titles about Mac and Apple software.
Alongside writing about technology and its uses for AppleInsider, he runs extensive workshops for writers, musicians, actors and journalists. Including his work with young writers, and roles at UK literary festivals, he's made 790 public speaking appearances since 2012.
Since January 2020, he's produced and presented over 170 weekly editions of 58keys, a YouTube podcast series for writers who use Macs, iPhones and iPads.
For macOS Sonoma, Apple changed the Mac so that clicking on the desktop activates Expose and hides all your apps. Fortunately, you can stop it — albeit with a workaround.
For this quincentennial 500th AppleInsider podcast, host Stephen Robles welcomes back Neil Hughes and with William Gallagher, try to get excited over the new Apple Pencil.
Apple has made it remarkably easy to use an iPhone widget in macOS Sonoma, even if you have just the iOS app and not matching Mac one. It's easy, yet it's not obvious and the results are mixed. Here's how to use them.
A supply chain source is contradicting its own reporting, and making the incredibly questionable claim that the new 12.9-inch iPad Pro will go back to LCD backlighting, instead of the mini LED it added in 2021.
Under iOS 17, AirPods is said to be better at switching automatically between your devices. Still, if you need to manually switch, here's how you can do it.
You could lament how long it has taken for Apple to add multiple timers to the iPhone, or you could just go right ahead and use them now iOS 17 has arrived. Here's how to start, stop, and check many timers at once.
New programming language Mojo is now on the Mac, bringing Python-like tools specifically for AI developers.
Marketed as a "Billionaire's Gadgets" collection, a new $250,000 luxury set includes the iPhone 15 Pro Max, Apple Watch Ultra 2, and more, all dotted with diamonds.
Apple's iPhone processor manufacturer TSMC has posted its greatest drop in profits since 2019, despite the quarter ending with the release of the iPhone 15 range.
Following reports of financial firm Goldman Sachs's deteriorating relationship with Apple, the company's CEO has avoided saying anything about wanting to pull out of its Apple Card and Apple Savings deals.
A new report from a tax watchdog claims that between Apple and other major IT firms, the UK may have lost almost $3 billion in tax revenue in 2021 alone.
For the second time in 2023, Apple CEO Tim Cook has met with China's commerce minister to discuss US/China relations, and Apple's presence in the country.
An Apple Health study comparing tennis to the increasingly popular pickleball says that both sports are beneficial to the health of players of all ages.
Rumors from Apple's supply chain claim that a foldable iPad is in "intensive development," and that the company could announce it in late 2024 or early 2025.
The UK has had the bright idea that Apple and others should design a way to stop cellphone thefts — by doing precisely what they've already been doing for years.
Ming-Chi Kuo says sales of the 15-inch MacBook Air will be 20% below expectations following a decline in demand after the Back to School season.
"Ted Lasso" star Hannah Waddingham is the center of the Apple TV+ holiday season, and her musical special will now stream from November 22, 2023.
The new Elgato Prompter is an all-in-one teleprompter setup that works with most webcams, digital cameras, and iPhones, for a game-changing low cost.
Apple Store UK staff claim that company management are coming as close to threatening disciplinary action against union staff as it can.
Apple CEO Tim Cook began an unannounced trip to China with a visit to an Apple Store where gamers were competing in an "Honor of Kings" tournament.
Supply issues with the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max will push sales into the next quarter, says Morgan Stanley, which has consequently cut its Apple price by $5.
A study of the environmental work being done by six major Big Tech firms shows that Apple is far ahead in its climate change efforts.
Apple Card and Apple Savings are performing so poorly for Goldman Sachs, one executive has reportedly said that "we should never have done this f****** thing."
An unknown number of iPhone 15 Pro Max owners are finding the image of home screen apps being burnt-in to the display, but the issue doesn't appear to be any worse than any other year.
After Steve Jobs, the best known head of Apple was John Sculley and yet he resigned from Apple in profitable disgrace just as the company was headed toward destruction. AppleInsider looks at Sculley's tenure with the company, and how history has treated the man since.
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