Based upon the number of Mac notes apps I’d say that note taking is a pastime enjoyed by tens of millions. Even Apple’s notoriously anemic Notes app in OS X is getting a min-word processor-like refresh. Notes are handy. They’re good ways to think about something, and write it down for keepsake, later retrieval, or…

The Mincey plantation here in Georgia is high tech; lots of gadgets, plenty of Macs, iPhones, and iPads. What thing I appreciate about iPhone and iPad is that they cannot be scheduled to start up at a specific time. The Mac can. That’s both good and bad. It’s good, because the Mac, email, browser, Calendar,…

You know what they say about the Lord, right? ‘The Lord hath given, and the Lord hath taken away.’ Should we be surprised that Apple works the same way? They giveth, and they taketh away. Here’s an example that is near and dear to my wannabe videographer heart. Apple once made it easy to grab…

A close friend once told me that nothing improves without change. So be it. The journey toward improvement and change is often littered with the corpses of the innocent. Slowly, quietly, and with little public knowledge, it appears as if search giant Google is molding the world wide web into a more efficient money machine…

My Mac is loaded up with a dozen or so photo enhancing apps that add custom borders, effects, and filters to my iPhoto collection. The latest app in my collection brings back a touch of the past to my digital photography efforts. Proof sheets. Contact sheets. Small photos on a grid. Proof Sheet is the Mac app…

Maybe it’s a good thing that Apple doesn’t build in app usage tracking functionality. All it would take is a click to find out that we’re not as productive on our Macs as we think we are. For the past week I’ve been using Activity Audit on my Mac and the results are nothing short of staggering.…

Way back in the days before Intel became a staple of the Mac community, back when OS X was but a shell of its current self, there was Mac Classic OS and all the problems associated with that era. If you can remember that far back, and have both good and bad Mac experiences, then…

One of the sure-fire and most popular ways to secure computer files, sensitive eyes-only documents, and incriminating evidence from prying eyes, government spooks, and nefarious Eastern European and Asian hackers, is to encrypt the files. Encryption encodes a file (or files or folders of files) so that only authorized people can open and view the file.…

This may sound a bit crazy, but there are some things about Windows that Mac users might appreciate. No, it’s not malware. or the blue screen of death. or the Start button. As simple as the Mac’s Dock is to understand and use, the Windows task bar is even easier to figure out and certainly…