Countless people have encountered trouble when uploading or adding images when creating a Pin on Pinterest. Rather than taking them to or remaining on the Pin creation and editing page so that they can create the Pin and publish the Pin, it takes them to the Pinterest image editing page for that image, with seemingly no way to get back to the main Pin creation screen and publishing screen.

Here’s how to add and at least as importantly how to remove the background color of email messages in your message list in Apple Mail on your Mac. Let’s say that you want to color code the messages in your inbox or other mailbox on your Mac in Apple Mail, maybe red for email from your boss, yellow for aunt Sally, and green for your kid who’s away at college and always asking for money. Here’s how to do it, and how to undo it.

If you’ve lost your iMessage contacts from your quick share section (the “share sheet”) on your iPhone or iPad, here’s how to get them back.

If you’ve tried to add a ‘Send From’ email address in Gmail recently, you know that Gmail now insists on your providing a non-Gmail SMTP server username and password. Here’s how to get around that.

Many people don’t fully explore each and every option available on their mobile phone (and even fewer fully read the user’s manual). So unless you have made a point of looking at each and every feature listed in your “Keyboard” setting on your iPhone or iPad (and who among us has?), you may have missed this fantastic goodie: Keyboard macros! Meaning custom keyboard shortcuts that you can create, allowing you to type a short set of letters that will magically expand to full phrases! For example, you can set up a keyboard short so that when you type “ty” it types “thank you”! You can create any shortcut that you want to… create custom signatures, frequently typed phrases, you name it! Here’s how to do it!

Have you or your child been diagnosed with ADD or ADHD? Are you concerned that this seems to be a diagnosis d’jour (especially for our boys these day)? Is it really ADHD? Or do you have a nagging suspicion that it could be something else? Find out in this week’s interview with Dr. Frank Barnhill, a board-certified family physician who has practiced ADHD-behavioral and family medicine for 27 years. Over the course of the interview, Dr. Barnhill discusses a range of issues related to ADHD, including medical conditions with symptoms that mimic ADHD, the risks of misdiagnosis, the motivations to over prescribe drugs to hard-to-manage children, and much more!