by Brittany Stenger | Mar 19, 2017 | Blog
Do websites that auto-play ads or videos drive you mad? (They should.) Especially when you reopen Safari and several of them in remembered tabs start playing simultaneously? Crazy-making. Since OS X 10.11 El Capitan, Safari can put an end to that cacophony on your...
by Ty Davison | Feb 26, 2017 | Blog
There are oodles of ways to launch Mac apps. You can double-click an app in the Applications folder, click an app icon in the Dock, invoke Launchpad and click the desired app, or choose an app from the Apple menu’s Recent Items > Applications submenu. You can...
by Ty Davison | Feb 22, 2017 | Blog
There’s nothing worse than your iPhone running out of juice at an inopportune time. Well, double-faulting in tennis is also pretty vexing. But I can’t help you there. With your iPhone, on the other hand…. Starting in iOS 9, there’s a Low Power Mode...
by Brittany Stenger | Feb 19, 2017 | Blog
The caveats first: It was a holiday quarter and had 14 weeks rather than the standard 13. Still $78.4 billion in revenue with $17.9 billion profit both set records for Apple, so caveats or not, I think that’s the sound of champaign glasses clinking at the...
by Brittany Stenger | Feb 15, 2017 | Blog
As long-time readers know usually it’s the “.3” update to a major operating system that gets to the point of recommending it to everyone. With Sierra, we’re not quite there yet. We’re still experiencing some unexplained slow-downs and...
by Ty Davison | Nov 24, 2016 | Blog
Several years ago, Xfinity unilaterally decided to turn each home customer’s Xfinity router into a Wi-Fi Hot Spot. Many people were understandably less than excited to have their home router become an open Wi-Fi Hotspot, accessible to anyone even if Xfinity...
