The Mac's Contacts app is incredibly useful for storing personal and work contact info. Here's how to back up your Contacts database.Contacts in macOSmacOS's Contacts app lives in the /Applications folder at the root of your Startup Disk. When you add new Contacts, each page, or vCard is stored in a local database on disk at ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook (the Contacts app was called "Address Book" in earlier versions of macOS). Read more...

The Mac's Contacts app is incredibly useful for storing personal and work contact info. Here's how to back up your Contacts database.Contacts in macOSmacOS's Contacts app lives in the /Applications folder at the root of your Startup Disk. When you add new Contacts, each page, or vCard is stored in a local database on disk at ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook (the Contacts app was called "Address Book" in earlier versions of macOS). Read more...

The Mac's Contacts app is incredibly useful for storing personal and work contact info. Here's how to back up your Contacts database.Contacts in macOSmacOS's Contacts app lives in the /Applications folder at the root of your Startup Disk. When you add new Contacts, each page, or vCard is stored in a local database on disk at ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook (the Contacts app was called "Address Book" in earlier versions of macOS). Read more...

My deep purple iPhone is deeply disappointing. Here it is next to some purple items within arm’s reach of my desk. | Photo by Victoria Song / The Verge I go through color phases — pink when I was little, forest green throughout high school and college, and teal throughout my 20s. There was a dalliance with mint green (or sage, as Google calls it; it’s mint, okay?), but we don’t speak of that dark time. But once I bought the lavender Beats Fit Pro last year, I entered my purple era. So you can see why I was stoked when Apple announced that the iPhone 14 Pro lineup would come in purple. Sorry, deep purple. My iPhone 12 Pro…

My deep purple iPhone is deeply disappointing. Here it is next to some purple items within arm’s reach of my desk. | Photo by Victoria Song / The Verge I go through color phases — pink when I was little, forest green throughout high school and college, and teal throughout my 20s. There was a dalliance with mint green (or sage, as Google calls it; it’s mint, okay?), but we don’t speak of that dark time. But once I bought the lavender Beats Fit Pro last year, I entered my purple era. So you can see why I was stoked when Apple announced that the iPhone 14 Pro lineup would come in purple. Sorry, deep purple. My iPhone 12 Pro…

Macworld Apple includes the free Photos app on all Macs, iPhones and iPads, but this app is primarily intended for organising your photo collection, and only has a limited selection of editing tools. If you’re a keen photographer and want to have more creative control over your work–but don’t want to pay for the privilege–then take a look at the free photo editing apps for Mac below. We’ve taken a look at the best alternatives to Photos that provide a wider and more powerful set of photo-editing tools. In this article we round up the best free photo-editing programs for the Mac, including Adobe Express, Google Photos, Gimp and more. If you don’t mind paying for a decent photo editing…