Yes, boys and girls, guys and gals, I likes me some big screen real estate on my Mac. The more pixels, the better. Multiple screens even. There’s only one thing wrong with having all those pixels and all that delicious screen real estate. Where the …
Lees meerYes, it’s Friday; I know you’re busy with shopping and getting ready for the holidays, so I’ll keep it simple on what sometimes can be a stupidly complex problem. Backups. Apple makes it easy to backup an iPhone and iPad to iCloud, but all Mac users…
Lees meerMaking the rounds last week were a few comparisons of Microsoft’s new Surface Pro 4 vs. Apple’s upcoming iPad Pro. Hello? Is it Oranges to Apples time again? Let’s be honest. The Surface is a nifty machine but it’s not a tablet. It’s called a hybrid…
Lees meerMy ability to select a sophisticated, trend-setting computing platform is not matched by my ability to dress like I’m an advertising spread in Gentleman’s Quarterly. And I live in the fashion capital of the world. Our Paris residence is near the cen…
Lees meerHow many email apps are there for Mac users? The names will sound very familiar. There’s Apple’s Mail in OS X. There’s Microsoft’s Entourage in Office (soon to be Outlook). There’s Mozilla’s free Thunderbird and a half dozen spinoffs. And a few geek…
Lees meerYou know what they say about the obvious. ‘Sometimes you can’t see the forest for the trees.’ So it is with the ongoing battles between Apple’s iOS devices and Google’s Android. On the surface, at first view, and as promulgated ad nauseam by today’s…
Lees meerMy wife and I have a collection of audio recording apps for Mac, iPhone, and iPad. They range from Notability at the high end to eXtra Voice Recorder to the dirt cheap and poorly named Lecture Recorder. What we want in a basic recording app is simpl…
Lees meerNot that long ago, then Apple CEO Steve Jobs sat down on an aging, over stuffed, living room chair in front of Apple’s most faithful, iPad in hand, and ushered in what came to be called the post-PC era; that special place on the space time continuum…
Lees meerI’m on the record as saying that Mac databases are on life support and someone needs to call the time of death. Bento is gone. FileMaker Pro is too expensive and complicated. Then someone pointed me toward Ninox. Way back in the day, in the early da…
Lees meerHere’s something I bet you didn’t know (or, at least, you haven’t given it much thought before). There are more people in the world that use iOS’s Launchpad than use the Mac’s Finder. That’s because iPhone and iPad have nearly a billion users, while…
Lees meerMost of my day is devoted to slaving over a hot keyboard, cooking up solutions to problems that crop up among the hundreds of Mac and Windows PCs in the school where I work. I use a MacBook for mobile troubleshooting but my desktop Mac is an iMac. I…
Lees meerYou love Mac keyboard shortcuts, right? Can remember what they are? I have a similar problem, but I’ve learned the most efficient way to use a Mac is to stop using the mouse or trackpad. Keyboard shortcuts are what power users use to become more eff…
Lees meerWay back in the day, long before OS X and Intel Macs took Mac sales to new record levels, there was a little utility that could do no wrong. It’s baaack! The old Mac Classic Apple menu was how tried and true Mac users navigated from app to app, file…
Lees meerNot long ago I helped a neighbor switch from an aging Windows notebook to a new MacBook Pro. All went well, including installation of a few of my favorite and highly recommended Mac apps, utilities, and tools. My neighbor asked which Mac backup tool…
Lees meerHow many ways can you backup your Mac’s important files? That’s not a trick question. There are many, many ways. Just don’t start your backups with drag and drop. For years I’ve used a combination of Time Machine, bootable clones, files synced betwe…
Lees meerWhen it comes to the Mac, remember this: there’s always someone somewhere trying to get into your Mac to see what’s there. Most of those attempts are over the internet and your Mac is quite secure. What about the home or office? Do you know who trie…
Lees meerThere’s a growing trend among utility applications for Mac users. Instead of a simple try-before-you-buy trial app, many Mac developers are going with a free version of an app, with an upgrade to a paid version. Here’s a good example of a Mac utilit…
Lees meerWho spent more money this holiday season? Apple’s customers. That made it a struggle for me to come up with the right article headline to match my perspective. Apple is a premium brand, and pound for pound, dollar for dollar, Apple’s customers spend…
Lees meerComputer systems as we know them– Mac, Windows PCs, Linux, iPhone, iPad, Android devices– have a number of interesting quirks that many users don’t know. What happens when you delete a file on your Mac (or Windows PC or anything else)? It’s gone, ri…
Lees meerNow that Apple has a patent on the slide-to-unlock feature on the iPhone’s screen, how will competitor’s phones be unlocked? My guess is facial or maybe voice recognition or both. Why not have the same thing on your Mac? Instead of a password to unl…
Lees meerLike it or don’t, Mac malware is on the rise as the Mac continues to make marketshare gains against Windows PCs. What? Mac malware? Say it ain’t so, Jack! No, I’m not talking about malicious virus or worms, most of which live under the Windows umbre…
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