The weather in New York has been so snowy and cold this winter, and I'm miserable in the cold weather. Here's how I am using my iPhone to make it through a rough winter. Yahoo Weather Yes, it gives you hour-by-hour forecasting, maps, precipitation. But it's the gorgeous photos on this app that ...
Setting up my new iMac
I got a new 21" iMac last week. My old iMac was from 2008. It was maxed out on RAM, was on its 3rd internal hard drive, and was slowing down. So 6 years later, I decided it was time for an upgrade. I purchased it online at the Apple Store and it arrived on Tuesday. It wasn't until Friday that I ...
What do I do if I receive a winmail.dat attachment on my Mac?
If you are a Mac user, have you ever received an email attachment called "winmail.dat"? I'm not talking about spam; I mean an attachment you were expecting, from someone you know. If you receive a winmail.dat file, which you can't open on the Mac, here's what to do: Download the free ...
iPhoto Import Preference: Should I Copy Items to iPhoto Library?
For those of you using iPhoto on the Mac -- there's an option in the newest versions of iPhoto that can have dangerous consequences. Open up iPhoto, and under the iPhoto menu choose Preferences. Then choose Advanced. You'll see a checkbox that says "Copy items to the iPhoto Library." It looks like ...
Best of CES Roundup
This week was the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. We didn’t go to CES but we’ve been reading lots of articles and blog posts. Here are what some of the top tech websites said were their top picks from CES. Mashable They loved the giant curved 4K (super high resolution) TV, that’s 105” ...
Domain name registration in China email scam
If you own a domain name (like we own ivanexpert.com), at some point you have probably gotten an email purportedly from a China domain registrar, asking about ownership of a domain name similar to yours. For example: We are the department of registration service in China. we have something need to ...