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Press Tab or click the message field at the bottom of the window, then type your message.Or click the Add button and choose from your contacts. Type the name, email address or phone number of one or more recipients.

Click the New Message button at the top of the Messages window.

You may be asked to sign in with your Apple ID. Nearly 400,000 subscribers received the newsletter complete with a handwritten tip every day. He gave advice on dark web scans on Miami's NBC 6, discussed Windows XP's demise on WGN-TV's Midday News in Chicago, and shared his CES experiences on WJR-AM's Guy Gordon Show in Detroit.Ĭhris also ran MakeUseOf's email newsletter for two years. In addition to his extensive writing experience, Chris has been interviewed as a technology expert on TV news and radio shows. The company's project was later reportedly shut down by the U.S. A wave of negative publicity ensued, with coverage on BuzzFeed News, CNBC, the BBC, and TechCrunch. At CES 2018, he broke the news about Kodak's 'KashMiner' Bitcoin mining scheme with a viral tweet. Starting in 2015, Chris attended the Computer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas for five years running. His work has even appeared on the front page of Reddit.Īrticles he's written have been used as a source for everything from books like Team Human by Douglas Rushkoff, media theory professor at the City University of New York's Queens College and CNN contributor, to university textbooks and even late-night TV shows like Comedy Central's with Chris Hardwick. His roundups of new features in Windows 10 updates have been called 'the most detailed, useful Windows version previews of anyone on the web' and covered by prominent Windows journalists like Paul Thurrott and Mary Jo Foley on TWiT's Windows Weekly. Instructional tutorials he's written have been linked to by organizations like The New York Times, Wirecutter, Lifehacker, the BBC, CNET, Ars Technica, and John Gruber's Daring Fireball. The news he's broken has been covered by outlets like the BBC, The Verge, Slate, Gizmodo, Engadget, TechCrunch, Digital Trends, ZDNet, The Next Web, and Techmeme. Beyond the column, he wrote about everything from Windows to tech travel tips. He founded PCWorld's 'World Beyond Windows' column, which covered the latest developments in open-source operating systems like Linux and Chrome OS. He also wrote the USA's most-saved article of 2021, according to Pocket.Ĭhris was a PCWorld columnist for two years. Beyond the web, his work has appeared in the print edition of The New York Times (September 9, 2019) and in PCWorld's print magazines, specifically in the August 2013 and July 2013 editions, where his story was on the cover.

With over a decade of writing experience in the field of technology, Chris has written for a variety of publications including The New York Times, Reader's Digest, IDG's PCWorld, Digital Trends, and MakeUseOf. Chris has personally written over 2,000 articles that have been read more than one billion times-and that's just here at How-To Geek. Those text messages will be synced to your iPhone, too.Ĭhris Hoffman is the former Editor-in-Chief of How-To Geek. You can reply from your Mac or send entirely new messages from the Messages app. Open the Messages app on your Mac and you’ll see a synced history of text messages from your iPhone, too. It should then work automatically if you’re using the same Apple ID to log into both your iPhone and your Mac. You’ll need to enable it on your iPhone by opening the Settings app, tapping Messages, and activating Text Message Forwarding to your Mac. This is part of the 'Continuity' feature added in Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite. The built-in SMS-message-sending feature on a Mac only works if you partner it with an iPhone, too - not if you have an Android phone. You need both - there’s no way to do this with an iPhone and a Windows PC. If you have both an iPhone and a Mac, Apple makes this possible. Related: How to Make Macs and iOS Devices Work Together Seamlessly with Continuity

You don't even need a mobile phone on your end. Even if you don't have access to cellular service you can use some of these tools to send SMS messages directly to a phone number.

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