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Customize Notification Center in iOS 8
This is what my Notification Center looks like today. Check out that nice NYC photo from the Yahoo Weather app. We finally advise that it’s safe to upgrade your iPhone or iPad to iOS 8. The number of...
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5 Tools and Apps from the MacTech Conference
Caroline with R2D2 at MacTech. We just got back from the MacTech Conference in Manhattan Beach (Los Angeles), where we learned a ton about everything related to Mac consulting and support. A lot of it...
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Send Email Later from Your Mac
Have you ever wanted to schedule an email, to be sent at a later date? Perhaps you want to make it look like you’re not at your desk. Or maybe you want the recipient to think you waited awhile to...
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How to migrate from your old Mac to a 12-inch MacBook
Apple’s 12-inch MacBook is svelte and weights only 2 pounds. It also presents some challenges when migrating your data directly from another Mac. All other Mac models since 2011 have Thunderbolt...
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Why You Need a Password Manager
The New York Times has an article this week entitled Why You Need a Password Manager. Yes, You. Andrew Cunningham, the author of the article and a lead editor at Wirecutter, only recently started...
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Mesh WiFi, and using Eero as a wireless to wired bridge
Mesh WiFi has been a tremendous development for easily spreading WiFi around a larger home or office. It’s self-configuring repeating–you just drop your additional units in and the system figures out...
View ArticlePhishing Attacks Targeting Apple Users
9 to 5 Mac has an article about how phishing attacks targeting users of Apple products have increased by 30-40% per year. The article states, In the first half of this year, around 1.6 million phishing...
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Making sense of Microsoft Office 2016, 2019, 365
Microsoft is notorious for their product segmenting and confusing naming. As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, they have multiple subscription services under the banner of “Office 365” — which they are...
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Snow Leopard in Parallels Desktop
This is a technical post on how to get the Snow Leopard OS running on a Mac in Parallels Desktop 15, so that older Apple software can be run on a newer Mac. If you want our office to set this up for...
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Figure out what’s taking up space on your Mac with DaisyDisk
Every now and then, I am using an application on my Mac or iPhone and I stop and marvel at how its creators got it exactly right, and say a private thank you for them having made something so useful...
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