Is your iPhone set to back up automatically to iCloud? If your phone is lost or stolen, or you drop it in the toilet (I haven’t done that yet but I know it will happen one day), wouldn’t it be great to just go to the Apple Store, buy a new iPhone, enter your iCloud account, and boom! You are back ...
Delete your Dropbox files remotely (if you lose your computer)
If you are a Dropbox Pro or Dropbox for Business (paid) customer, did you know you can now use Remote Wipe to remove your Dropbox folder from your computer or device, the next time it goes online? So if your computer is lost or stolen, even if someone can get onto your system, all your Dropbox files ...
Tonality for black-and-white photo editing on the Mac
Last week I checked out Tonality, the new software from Macphun that makes it easy to edit black-and-white photos. Whether you're an amateur photographer (like me) or a seasoned pro, if you're interested in b&w images, check it out. There's a free trial, cost is $20 for the basic version ...
Use the Stand Up! iPhone App to Take Regular Breaks
By now we all know it’s important to move around during the workday, not just sit in the same spot for hours at a time. I’ve been using the free Time Out software on my Mac for years. I can set it to ask me to take a break after X minutes, and I can set the break itself to X minutes. It's been very ...
Don’t lose that Mac MagSafe 2 converter!
Some of us have older MacBook Airs and MacBook Pros, and some have newer ones. And unfortunately the power cords aren't the same! So we have a lot of Apple MagSafe converters, to let us use the old power cords with the new Macs. However we keep losing them, because they are so tiny. To solve ...
QuickBooks Online with Mac for Small Business
I just switched our office to QuickBooks Online for our accounting. It's one of these new categories of applications called "cloud services" (because everything runs on a server off in the cloud somewhere; you're not running actual software on your machine). This category is also referred to as ...