“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 [...]
Many tactics abound for keeping sensitive information secure. Many folks keep a special notebook or file with their passwords and store it somewhere they think no one will look. Others use any number of digital and/or online solutions. For website passwords, web browsers are a common place to store them and the passwords are [...]
People have a lot of different ways of managing email. Some go to one or more websites to retrieve their email while others use a dedicated application like Mail. Some seek to achieve Inbox Zero by funneling their messages into various folders while others lack the focus to look at more than one folder [...]
One of my best traits as a coach is that I observe my surroundings intently and notice things about how my clients use technology as well as other devices in their midst. Mentioning these observations sometimes jogs people’s consciousness and leads to new conversations. Des(s)ertification Mojave, the new version of macOS, is really [...]
When buying a modern portable Mac, where upgrading storage later is challenging and/or expensive, it has become important to choose the capacity you think you’ll need over the life of the computer. This can be a tough proposition for some users. Plus, if buying used or if your finances are constrained, you might not [...]
macOS is designed to mimic reading other media, where our eyes start in the top left and move to the right and then down. Naturally, the item designed to represent the core and top level of the Mac is the Apple logo. I, Command The Apple menu contains commands that information or actions tied to the [...]
What is your backup strategy? The computing industry’s suggested standard is “3–2–1”: 3 copies – 2 local – 1 remote. In practice, this usually means the first copy is on your Mac’s internal drive, the second is on an external drive using a backup utility, and the third is stored far, far away. [...]
