Apple makes a secure connection between the company’s servers and a customer’s devices to ensure an experience of privacy. It’s important to distinguish between the password used with the Apple ID account and the one used locally on the computer so you know which one to use in a given prompt. Computer Password [...]
Google has a special series of screens to authenticate you as an account holder and these screens are not always very well designed in the context of the Mac interface. Account Recovery If your Mac prompts you to reenter your password for a Google account due to a recent change and you indicate [...]
While it’s long been possible to send and receive both SMS and iMesssages on a Mac, it’s a hassle when they’re not all in sync, especially with attachments. Learn how… Messages on the Mac Messages started on iPhone only for SMS text messages. Apple’s iMessage service launched in 2011 and Messages came to [...]
Mail is an excellent application for sending, receiving, and organizing email, whether you have just one address or several. It’s easy to make mailboxes for archiving email in categories, but at some point it gets a little out of hand. Mailbox Menu All of the commands to manage mailbox folders for viewing and organizing email [...]
Phishing is the fraudulent attempt to obtain sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details by disguising as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication (Wikipedia). In my September 3 post, “Avoiding Scams,” I offered some insight on recognizing web-based advertisements with similar intents. It’s important to know how to also catch [...]
Compared to mobile, touchscreen devices like iPhone and iPad, the Mac is a lot more flexible with regard to selecting multiple items. The utility of the mouse enables clicking and dragging over a group of files to select many at once. In contrast, iOS provides limited means to multi-select. Additionally, the Shift and Command [...]
“Ever wake up ready to write down the Next Great Idea and get blinded by your computer screen? “During the day, computer screens look good—they’re designed to look like the sun. But, at 9 pm, 10 pm, or 3 am, you probably shouldn't be looking at the sun.” The developers of f.lux are right and [...]
Over the last four years, I have noted Apple’s iterative improvements to the macOS upgrade process, which was overhauled for Yosemite (10.10) in 2014. Like the Mac startup sequence, renewed at the same time, an Apple appears on the screen and a progress bar beneath it shows the installer’s progression. Additionally, there is an [...]
Contacts is one of the applications that comes with macOS and makes it pretty easy to manage the information of people with whom you connect by any of several different channels. You can store and sync contacts with various accounts where you might also do email or keep a calendar, create groups to email en [...]
About four years ago, Apple launched Photos on the Mac. This new picture organizing tool shared the design and function with the app of the same name on iOS devices. While transitioning users from iPhoto, development and support of this older app halted. For most users, Photos is a great way to store and edit photos captured by [...]
