Category: Mac

Password manager apps are no longer a dime a dozen. Some of the most popular password managers for Mac, iPhone, and iPad have healthy price tags or worse– monthly and annual subscriptions. Here’s another one I tried this weekend that has a free component which could be all you need. It’s called Bitwarden and it works just…

Way back in a cold Chicago winter, circa early 1989, my newly minted husband and I hooked up our television to a cable TV connection which gave us a couple of dozen channels; more than over the air, and with improved quality. For a price. That was then and this is now. Today, we still…

Are you a creative Mac user? Or, a logical Mac user? My wife and I have this whole left brain right brain thing going. She’s the intuitive and creative member of our children’s parents. I’m the logical, reasonable, rational, analytical, objective parent. Carol’s right brain kept her using a Mac during Apple’s darkest years while left brain embraced Windows PCs. I…

Let’s face it. The Mac has hit a wall. Sales are as good as ever but unit marketshare remains mostly anemic. Worse, Apple doesn’t seem to care about Mac engineering anymore, despite talk of a new iMac Pro and a modular Mac Pro. What’s the problem? This list is long. In general, and despite the…

The second best way to do anything implies that there’s a single best way to do it, too. What’s the most effective way to manage or kill email spam? The best way is simple, effective, but doesn’t seem plausible. Take the War Games approach. WOPR figured out that the only way to win at thermonuclear war is not to play the…

Forgive me, Apple public relations department. I’m putting words in your mouth. Yet, it should be obvious that the technology battle for the home hasn’t really started yet, despite the jockeying for position among industry heavyweights. If you want to know about the home battleground then don’t read digital technology trade rags such as ZDNet because what…

My two greatest secrets to productivity—beyond my Mac and iPhone—are simple. A couple of pairs of glasses in every room. And half a dozen timers scattered around the house. Simple, right? No matter which room I’m in, I can see. No matter which room I’m in, there’s a timer nearby. Yes, my Mac also has…

Why did Apple wait a year before upgrading the iPad line? For a company that prides itself on machine-like precision, this seems like a massive gaffe, no? No. Apple is disciplined. The leap from the original non-Retina iPad mini to the new iPad mini is substantial. Ditto for the new iPad Air, which is smaller,…

One of the few ways Apple gives Mac users to customize their Macs is the Desktop background; the so-called wallpaper photo. We can choose pre-defined Apple photos, photos from Photos (or, iPhoto), solid colors, or a customized batch of backgrounds. Once chosen we can change the background picture every x-number of minutes or once a…

For those of us who devote ourselves to more Mac keyboard time than the average Mac user, clutter is the name of the game. Screen clutter kills productivity. Through the day we’re gathering and storing notes, files, links, photos, PDFs, and more– all dumped onto the Mac’s Desktop with the thought of cleaning it up…