Everyone knows there’s a war going on among the tech titans– Apple, Microsoft, Google, Samsung– and each is battling on multiple fronts. Other than Beats and iTunes, Apple doesn’t bother to put major applications on non-Apple platforms. Samsung is forced to use Google apps and a laundry list of second-fiddle proprietary apps to differentiate itself.…

Yes, boys and girls, guys and gals, I likes me some big screen real estate on my Mac. The more pixels, the better. Multiple screens even. There’s only one thing wrong with having all those pixels and all that delicious screen real estate. Where the dickens did the screen pointer go? I know it’s on…

Yes, it’s Friday; I know you’re busy with shopping and getting ready for the holidays, so I’ll keep it simple on what sometimes can be a stupidly complex problem. Backups. Apple makes it easy to backup an iPhone and iPad to iCloud, but all Mac users get is Time Machine, not exactly the best way…

Making the rounds last week were a few comparisons of Microsoft’s new Surface Pro 4 vs. Apple’s upcoming iPad Pro. Hello? Is it Oranges to Apples time again? Let’s be honest. The Surface is a nifty machine but it’s not a tablet. It’s called a hybrid because Microsoft is desperate to find a way to compete in…

My ability to select a sophisticated, trend-setting computing platform is not matched by my ability to dress like I’m an advertising spread in Gentleman’s Quarterly. And I live in the fashion capital of the world. Our Paris residence is near the center of fashion, the home stylish suits and ties with flare, elegant dresses and…

How many email apps are there for Mac users? The names will sound very familiar. There’s Apple’s Mail in OS X. There’s Microsoft’s Entourage in Office (soon to be Outlook). There’s Mozilla’s free Thunderbird and a half dozen spinoffs. And a few geeky email apps for Mac users with more esoteric needs. What if your…

You know what they say about the obvious. ‘Sometimes you can’t see the forest for the trees.’ So it is with the ongoing battles between Apple’s iOS devices and Google’s Android. On the surface, at first view, and as promulgated ad nauseam by today’s short sighted tech pundits, Android is winning. How so? Market share.…

My wife and I have a collection of audio recording apps for Mac, iPhone, and iPad. They range from Notability at the high end to eXtra Voice Recorder to the dirt cheap and poorly named Lecture Recorder. What we want in a basic recording app is simple. Instant recording on Mac, iPhone, and iPad. The option to create notes along…

I’m on the record as saying that Mac databases are on life support and someone needs to call the time of death. Bento is gone. FileMaker Pro is too expensive and complicated. Then someone pointed me toward Ninox. Way back in the day, in the early days of PCs and Macs, personal databases were all the rage…