The political season is upon us. That’s when we expect politicians to come out of the woodwork, beg for money, lambast the competition, list all the things wrong with the government, then claim that by electing them to … Continue Reading »
Archives for 2015
Cheap: Lock Your Mac With A Click
How do you lock your Mac when you walk away for lunch, meeting, or bathroom break? What? You don’t bother to lock the Mac? That’s more common than you may realize but an unattended and unlocked Mac is … Continue Reading »
There’s A New Way To Switch Apps On The Mac And It’s Free
Based on the number of add-on utilities which grace the aluminum clad confines of my trust dusty MacBook Air, you’d be forgiven if you think I have a fetish for incremental improvements in efficiency and productivity. How else … Continue Reading »
One Thing Apple Does Better Than All Technology Competitors
Here we are moving rapidly into the 21st century and the same old wars are being fought again and again. Mac vs. Windows. iPhone vs. Android. Forget about the fact that those wars compare Apples to oranges, the … Continue Reading »
Too Many Apps In Your Mac’s Dock?
My Mac is filled with nearly as many apps as my iPhone so I have a love hate affair with app launchers, including the Dock. The iPhone uses a pages approach because it must. The screen is small. … Continue Reading »
The Mac360 “Big Bang Theory”
It was a dark and stormy night. Christmas night, to be specific. Mac360 disappeared along with tens of thousands of other websites. What happened? I have a big bang theory. First, a little history. Mac360 started life in … Continue Reading »
What If Everybody Owned An iPhone
Wouldn’t the world be a better place if everyone owned an iPhone? That would eliminate most of the world’s known smartphone malware, improve privacy and security, and make support and service uniform around the globe, and make Apple … Continue Reading »
It’s Time To Put A Little Mathematical Magic In Your Mac’s Menubar
No one ever said I didn’t have the capacity to be a day late and a dollar short. So, right after the biggest gift giving holiday of the year, I nearby announce the perfect gift giving idea for … Continue Reading »
The Mac Browser I Thought Was Dead, Still Lives, And It’s Good
I don’t know about you, but work is killing me. There’s just no doubt about it. I gotta get out more. I’m so focused on work and gadgets that every time I turn around I bump into an … Continue Reading »
About That ‘Backdoor’ The Government Wants To Use In Your iPhone
A funny thing happened along the way to the 21st century. The internet. Along with the internet came the need to encrypt communications and data to make a secure connection environment. Way back in the day encryption was … Continue Reading »
Cheap: The Coolest (and hottest) Mac Wallpaper App You’ve Never Seen
Every Mac has more than a few features which just don’t fit into my workflow. One of them is screensaver. Bah humbug. Rather than have the CPU running down the battery with a screensaver, I just have the … Continue Reading »
Apple’s Growing Encryption Problem Has No Easy Solution: This Is Why
Apple and modern technology are front and center in a growing and serious problem that involves the gap between personal privacy and security which does not have a solution that will benefit both components. In a nutshell, here’s … Continue Reading »
Try A ‘Go Everywhere’ Clipboard Manager
Down through the years I’ve tried every sort of Mac clipboard management utility I could find, and kept a couple of the more feature laden apps on our Macs at home and office. Basically, a clipboard manager is … Continue Reading »
Apple Menu, Meet The Start Button
Way back in the day, far into the last century, long before Steve Jobs’ second coming, and the re-birth of OS X (it was, more or less, NeXT before it was OS X), there was the Apple Menu. … Continue Reading »
Apple Music, Beats Headphones, Lightning, Lossless Audio: We Should Have Seen This Coming
Relative to the general competition, what is Apple all about? We could say, ‘Outrageous gross margins on overpriced products.’ Or, we could say that Apple is about premium quality, ease of use, and value, thanks to a line … Continue Reading »
Toughest Competition For Apple Music
One of the more unfortunate aspects of being a baby boomer is all the history we’ve been through. Music history. My parents had 78s and 33 1/3 records and I had the latter plus 45s. Then along came … Continue Reading »
The Weakest Link In Mobile Tech
The battery life on my iPhone 6s Plus is great. And it sucks. I remember reading more than 10 years ago, long before the iPhone became a glint in Steve Jobs’ eye, that battery technology was on the … Continue Reading »
The New Age Of Passwords On A Mac
Everyone who uses the internet for almost anything has the same problem; whether Mac or Windows PC users, Android or iPhone user. Usernames and Passwords. Usernames are not as difficult to remember as passwords. The former usually are … Continue Reading »