Flexible Scheduling

There are a number of tools that can help you recall past events, identify availability, notify people about an event, and engage participation in shared activities. Below is a quick review of all of these. Total Recall If you’re an avid mobile calendar user, you may have noticed that the stock iOS Calendar app [...]

2024-02-10T23:23:48-08:00February 3rd, 2020|Mac Mondays|

Tools of the Trade

Last Tuesday, right in front of my house, my bike and I were suddenly not moving, and keeled over. Responding to one too many obstacles, including the rough pavement beneath me, and already clipped into my pedals, instead of achieving forward momentum, I broke my elbow. I’m grateful that one of my housemates was home [...]

2024-02-10T23:22:33-08:00January 27th, 2020|Mac Mondays|

I Got Caught!

Embarrassingly, shortly after posting last week’s edition, I was reconfiguring my local backup system and inadvertently cleared out 50GB of archived audio and video content I’d saved over the years. Ouch! I went to sleep last Tuesday feeling the effects of this grief moment and thinking that in this new year, I was also [...]

2024-02-10T23:20:12-08:00January 13th, 2020|Mac Mondays|

Don’t Get Caught

Since April 2018, I have been listening to the Mac Geek Gab podcast. This excellent weekly show, formerly from The Mac Observer, aims for every participant—listener and host alike—to learn at least five new things about the Mac “every time we get together.” This week, the show’s hosts are at the annual Consumer Electronics Show, exploring [...]

2024-02-10T23:18:50-08:00January 6th, 2020|Mac Mondays|

Tips for New Macs

Here are some tips for getting started with a new Mac and be instantly flexible. Migrate Data from Backup Even if all your files are stored in one or another cloud like iCloud, Dropbox, or Google Drive, your Mac applications, system and app preferences, and a handful of other things are not backed [...]

2024-02-10T23:18:22-08:00December 30th, 2019|Mac Mondays|

Discover Hidden Controls

To date, I have mentioned Control Center only twice: In Mobile Screenshots regarding screen recording and in Pushing Buttons regarding the Mute Switch. Today, I give it the attention it deserves to help you discover some of the hidden capabilities of your devices. Control Center is a special interface area accessible by swiping from a specific edge of an [...]

2024-02-10T23:17:10-08:00December 23rd, 2019|Mac Mondays|

Ready for Catalina?

If your Mac supports macOS Mojave, then it also supports Catalina (except for a couple Mac Pro models). In this edition, I share some important guidelines of the upgrade process. I ask that you be especially cautious this time around and ensure all of your applications are ready for you to transition to the new [...]

2024-02-10T23:16:46-08:00December 16th, 2019|Mac Mondays|

Efficient Dexterity

Apple products provide great opportunity to benefit from hidden gems. Our mobile devices lack enough physical screen space to see all the choices at once so we must touch, hold, and scroll to see more. Plus, multitouch enables more tactile engagement than our Macs can dream of. The Mac, on the other hand, has a [...]

2024-02-12T00:10:24-08:00December 9th, 2019|Mac Mondays|

Powerful Sharing

In iOS 13, Apple overhauled the design and functionality of the Share Sheet, the interface that appears when you tap the Share button in an app. The new experience provides more choices and is much easier to customize. Learn to harness the power of sharing. In this week’s edition, I share the number of ways [...]

2024-02-10T23:14:20-08:00December 2nd, 2019|Mac Mondays|
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