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Every writer at Mac360 enjoys slicing and dicing members of the technorati elite politburo and their anti-Apple screeds and misdeeds. Seldom do I poke at the good guys in the Applesphere but today is such a day. What ... Continue Reading »
Lees meerMalware is everywhere these days; it ranges from advertising that hijacks your browser and follows your online habits, to sleazy, sneaky, slime ball apps that grab more personal information than you believed you had. So, you want to ... Continue Rea…
Lees meerProduct marketing is all about differentiation. Good product marketing combines with public relations to control customer expectations. After all, who wants to disappoint customers before they have a chance to try a new product? In years past, Apple…
Lees meerApple’s customers tend, on average and without much official documentation, to be more productive and use their devices more frequently and with more apps than either Windows PC owners or Android smartphone users. Why is that? Maybe Apple’s ... Cont…
Lees meerAllow me to assume that you’ve tried Apple’s Face ID facial recognition system on a new iPhone or iPad Pro. In short, it works; it works very well. Face ID is fast and convenient and about as secure ... Continue Reading »
Lees meerHow fast is your internet connection. If it seems slow, it is slow. If you don’t notice, then it’s probably fast enough. How can you tell anyway? Speed tests. That will tell you how fast your internet connection ... Continue Reading »
Lees meerWho wants you to back up your Mac? Apple. That explains Time Machine. Apple’s little backup utility is better than nothing, but it’s also next to nothing. You can do better with an external disk drive backup. Jeffrey ... Continue Reading »
Lees meerYou know the 2019 iPhone will be boring because we read about it every day on the internet. They can’t put it on the internet if it isn’t true, right? Wrong, of course. Good grief. Stupid logic. Apple ... Continue Reading »
Lees meerIt’s past the mid-year point of 2016 already so it’s safe to say that most PCs on the market these days are non-hard disk drives but instead have speedier SSDs inside. All Mac notebooks use SSDs. So what ... Continue Reading »
Lees meerHow do you unlock this year’s crop of iPhones? Face ID. Apple does not even make a new iPhone or new iPad Pro with Touch ID. Why not? Face ID is that good, that easy, that secure. It ... Continue Reading »
Lees meerThe state of the personal computer industry is just as it has always been. A mess. There may be fewer manufacturers today, but each one has a long list of desktop and notebook PCs that make comparisons a ... Continue Reading »
Lees meerWoe is Apple. Can the company survive? Quarter after quarter the company struggles to break records. Worse, it has taken a couple of years to come up with another $20-billion product line. The most recent financials stunned Wall ... Continue Reading…
Lees meerLife is full of curiosities, no? I mean, look at all those Christian evangelicals who voted for a decidedly non-Christian-like presidential candidate. The Snake, anyone? There’s an old saying that goes something like this: “The enemy of my ... Conti…
Lees meerLeave it to Apple to give customers a feature that quickly becomes the envy of customers on other platforms. Today I’m talking about AirDrop; Apple’s insanely easy way to share files with other iPhone, iPad, or Mac users. ... Continue Reading »
Lees meerIn internet years, Mac360 has been around for 83 years. Says who? The American Kennel Club. Internet years must be like dog years, right? We started life in 2004, and if we were a giant website, we would ... Continue Reading »
Lees meerIt is time to stop worrying about Apple. Let’s ignore all the Apple is doomed memes and realize that our favorite Mac maker has created a very profitable chair with more than enough legs for support. Face it. ... Continue Reading »
Lees meerAs usual, every quarter Apple Inc. releases new financial information to tell the public, customers, and investors about the company’s financial health. As usual, it depends upon the headline and author bias as to whether or not Apple’s ... Continue…
Lees meerMy husband and I work in a private school in the Chicago area; home to many hundreds of Macs, Windows PCs, some Chromebooks, and iPads. We also have a growing number of external displays for classrooms. What good ... Continue Reading »
Lees meerWhen is the worst time to buy anything new from Apple? Right now. Not yesterday. Not last month or earlier this year. Not even last year. Right now. Even next year is better than right now. Says who? ... Continue Reading »
Lees meerHave heard the latest? Apple’s Siri is always listening to everything you say and gets recorded by Apple and the company has employees who listen to it all. Or, some of it. Or, maybe that’s not quite the ... Continue Reading »
Lees meerIs your home ‘smart?’ By ‘smart home’ I mean do you have the ability to control appliances, heating and air conditioning, alarms and entry system, and other household components via a gateway? Gateway? Your iPhone. There are plenty ... Continue Read…
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