Frankly, I thought Quicken for Mac had been abandoned by Intuit. It's long been a second-class citizen compared with its Windows versions, with longstanding complaints of bugs, slow updates, poor support, and file format incompatibilities. Still, it was Quicken, the name brand of personal finance ...
The best way to read the New York Times digitally
The New York Times has a bewildering panoply of options for reading the paper digitally, including an almost-unknown but very awesome "Replica Edition" in which each page of the daily paper appears exactly as it does in print. (Hat tip to Dan Okrent for telling me about that, as I almost certainly ...
Ivan Drucker on CBS New York Discussing Latest iPhone Hack
CBS New York interviewed me on May 28th for a story on the latest iPhone scam: Hackers are logging in to people's iCloud accounts (usually because those passwords aren't very strong), and are then using the Find My iPhone feature to lock their iPhones and demanding ransom payments to unlock ...
Find the password for a locked profile
I was experimenting with Profile Manager in Mountain Lion Server, and a while ago installed a profile that required a password to remove. And I forgot the password. Whoops. I had a profile I couldn't remove from my own phone. Fortunately, I tracked down the original profile by searching for a file ...
Lotta Drama on iPhone/iPad Jailbreak Sunday for iOS 7
Hoo boy. First off, H/T to iClarified, from whom I learned of all this news. Go there for the latest updates. Earlier today, a jailbreak team called "Evad3rs" released a much-anticipated jailbreak for iOS 7. Stay away from it. Jailbreaking, if you're unfamiliar with it, means using special ...
Ivan’s Mac, iPhone, and iPad Videos on eHow
Ivan was filmed talking about Mac, iPhone, and iPad topics for the eHow website. The list of topics: How to keep an external hard drive from spinning down on a Mac How to disassociate an iPhone from a computer How to plug your iPhone into a flat screen How to upload contacts to an iPhone using ...