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Have you ever looked at your Mac’s Keychain? That’s the somewhat hidden app that stores and retrieves your Mac’s login IDs and passwords. The passwords for your Mail accounts? They’re in the Keychain. Those login ID and passwords that automagically pop up in Safari when you … Continue Reading »
OK, fellow Mac graphic app users. You know who you are, right? It’s time to dance to the musical question, “Is there anything new under the sun?” Mostly no. Politicians still lie. Bread still falls jelly side down. And you can never have enough graphic apps … Continue Reading »
Travel much? I do. My job keeps me on the go constantly. A couple of dozen states a year. A dozen countries. How do I keep track of all the details? My handy dandy trusty MacBook Air never leaves my side. My latest bargain Mac app … Continue Reading »
Netflix and Hulu notwithstanding, I have this thing about movies on my Mac. There’s never enough. Three little girls in the backseat of the car have forced us into capturing and saving as many movies as we can stuff onto our MacBook Air when we travel. … Continue Reading »
Me and Adobe’s Flash Player have this love hate relationship. I hate Flash because it mucks up Safari. Flash loves to irritate me with Safari crashes, CPU spikes, and overheating whenever possible. In other words, Flash video in Safari is a painful experience. If necessity is … Continue Reading »
What’s the one thing we grumble about the most but cannot do anything about? Besides politics. And in laws. It’s the weather, right? There’s just no controlling the weather. The best we can hope for is a good forecast or current conditions that match our clothing. … Continue Reading »
There are more ways than ever for Mac users to buy, manage, and listen to music. Not content to let Apple rule the music world with iTunes, Google and Amazon are vying for ways to get your money or get in your face with free services … Continue Reading »
One aspect of the high tech world I thought I would like is choice. Mac users can choose from tens of thousands of Mac apps (not to mention the hundreds of thousands of apps for the iPhone and iPad). But when it comes to basic apps, … Continue Reading »
Let’s talk note taking apps, shall we? Dear Mac users, they’re everywhere, and priced from nothing and worth less, to a price that may cause irreparable harm to your monthly food budget, or cause your children to walk to school through hip deep snow without boots … Continue Reading »
Yes, Virginia was told there is a Santa Claus (even though there’s not). And, yes, there’s something new under the sun (even though everything is a remix). What’s new today is a remarkably inexpensive and useful app that helps you launch the apps that live in … Continue Reading »
Reminders and alarms are about a dime a dozen on the Mac App Store. If not a dime, maybe 99-cents. That would get you 11 free reminder apps, and one for 99-cents. If you need a reminder app and you’re torn between choosing from the 11 … Continue Reading »
I’m in a sour mood today. After scouring the Mac web all day I have yet to find a useful app that matches the gem of the useful app I found yesterday. In fact, after trying out half a dozen Mac apps I’m now batting oh-for-six. … Continue Reading »
Got Mac? Got apps! It’s not as if Apple doesn’t give Mac users enough apps to use. From Mail to Safari, from Address Book to iCal, from iTunes to iMovie, and from iPhoto to Garageband, our Macs have the basic apps covered. But every now and … Continue Reading »
It seems that every week or so we read of computer data being hacked and login IDs and passwords and credit card information being stolen. If you can’t trust your personal data to be stored online, where should you keep it? You have options. A file … Continue Reading »
Got PDFs? Of course you do. If it’s the 21st century then your Mac likely has a few PDF files floating around. What’s nifty about PDF files is that they’re easily saved and shared with anybody anywhere on any computer. What’s not so cool is the … Continue Reading »
