Do you consider yourself familiar with the Menu Bar, Dock, and Finder? These foundational Mac interface elements are ever present and play crucial roles in how we use and interact with our Macs. However, when troubleshooting, I find many users don’t know them by name and haven’t grokked how to use them effectively. [...]
Do you know there’s a shortcut to type “.com” and other top-level domains? Do you receive a lot of spam calls that you wish you could block? Do you keep a large music library on your Mac that you’d like to control from another device? .com Shortcut When typing an email address on iPhone [...]
Are you the only entity authorized to access your online accounts? If someone else steals your password, what prevents them from signing in as you? Two-factor authentication (2FA) ensures only you can sign in, using a trusted device as collateral. Intro to 2FA Two-factor authentication generally means that you have identified a secondary trusted device that [...]
As part of my accessibility series last August, I wrote about Ergonomic Input, including improvements you can make to your input devices via hardware and software. I received some input from readers about their favorite keyboard choices. What about mousing devices? Do you like a mouse or trackpad better? Have you spent enough time with each to [...]
On October 29, 2018, Contact Lenses offered ways to deduplicate, view, and sync contacts on the Mac. Today’s edition focuses on the basics of adding contacts as well as the advanced ability to import or update as a batch. Once you get all your contacts in one place, you can easily sync them among your [...]
Are all of your devices working exactly the way you expect? When something goes awry, are you confident enough to investigate? If so, troubleshooting can be as easy as identifying which application or system is at fault and restarting it. Restart an Application What if an application fails to behave as expected? For example, [...]
After three weeks of way too many Zoom meetings and all the learning about how to use the platform responsibly, is it time for a lighter note? Conference Calls Gone Wrong David Grady had it figured out 10 years ago when he shared this reenactment of a conference call. How many of your Zoom [...]
Though everyone and their mother seems to have flocked to Zoom and registered an account to host virtual meetings, you do not need to sign into Zoom in order to join someone else’s meeting. Again, you can join a meeting without first signing in. Get it? Also “Zoom-bombing” is not hacking. If you publicly share a [...]
Breakout rooms are a great way to engage meeting participants with each other. You can easily assign them to one or more rooms, visit them at will, and welcome them back after a set duration. Create Breakout Rooms Any Zoom meeting host can create breakout rooms, as long as the feature is enabled in [...]
For most remote coaching and support sessions, I use Zoom (zoom.us), an excellent application that offers stable audio and video meetings with end-to-end encryption and secure screen sharing. I was an early adopter of the platform in 2013 when Google Hangouts was getting too playful and no longer serving my grad school team project [...]
