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Continue reading →: Happy World Backup Day!
Please join me in reciting the World Backup Day pledge. “I solemnly swear to backup my important documents and precious memories on March 31. I will also tell my friends and family about World Backup Day — friends don’t let friends go without a backup.” If, like me, you have…
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Continue reading →: Black Friday at Apple
Both my wife and I need new Macs. We each currently drive a 21.5-inch iMac; hers is a mid-2010 and mine is a mid-2011 (neither support macOS Mojave 10.14). We were planning on purchasing new iMac desktops sometime in the next few months, but holiday plans put a monkey with…
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Continue reading →: Get Emojified!
Some time ago a client with both an iPhone and a Mac, who enjoyed using emoji on her iPhone, asked if there was a way to use emoji characters on her Mac. My answer to her was, “Why yes, Virginia, there is a Great Pumpkin!” Well, maybe not in those…
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Continue reading →: 10 Timeless Typing Tips: the Missing Post
I started working on a 10-part series of posts of tips for better typing on a Mac this week. Actually, it began as a single post with 10 tips, but it gradually ballooned beyond my capacity to get it all done before my self-imposed posting deadline. That’s when I changed…
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Continue reading →: I’ve Been Vectorized
Periodically I will share some of my favorite websites, podcasts, videos, and/or blogs I follow to learn about the Apple-centric tech-o-sphere. This is one of those posts. The last time I posted about a podcast was back in October of 2016 after I discovered The Checklist. Today, I’d like to…
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Continue reading →: Apple, you’ve got some ’splainin’ to do!
I did not get an invitation, but Apple live streamed the event, so I watched. And I’ve got some questions. Whether Apple answers them or not is up to them. Gather round? What’s with this title? If it is a title, why is it not set in title case, as in…
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Continue reading →: Watch
The Long Wait is Over After the Apple Watch was introduced in the Spring of 2015, I wrote a short post entitled “Which Watch.” Twenty months later, I finally purchased one. I did get the Space Gray 42mm aluminum with black fluoroelastomer sport band. Since I waited so long, I had a…
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Continue reading →: New Mac Security Podcast
Greetings Mac users! I recently started listening to a new podcast focused on Mac and iOS security called, The Checklist. It’s hosted by Ken Ray (of the daily Mac OS Ken podcast) with security geeks Nicholas Raba and Nicholas Ptacek of SecureMac, Inc It’s been going for about seven weeks now and I thought some of you…
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Continue reading →: Which Watch?
Do I want an Watch? Yes. Do I need an Watch? Probably not. Will I buy an Watch? At some point, yes. Which Watch? 42mm Sport with black fluoroelastomer band. But first I want an iPhone 6. And before that I need a new Mac. The Watch is getting more and more…
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Continue reading →: Happy Belated Birthday, iPhone
“Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything.” ~Steve Jobs I neglected to mark the day on June 29, the seventh anniversary of the original iPhone’s launch. I didn’t own or use an iPhone until 2009 (iPhone 3Gs), but my computing life sure has changed…





