iPhone app management is, to put it bluntly, a mess. Once you get more than a couple of screens' worth of apps, you start having difficulty keeping track of what's where, and resort to using Spotlight to find an app you want to launch. And even though you can create folders, they all look similar, ...
Microtrenching — it’s the new technique for internet
This is super cool -- rather than having to dig a big tunnel in the street to run cables, a new technique called microtrenching cuts a narrow groove for smaller cables like fiber optics for internet. One of the problems with Verizon FiOS in NYC is its relative lack of availability; that may change ...
Gmail: Don’t Save OS X Mail Drafts to Server
Apple Mail on OS X has a peculiar way of working with the drafts folder, and so does Gmail, and the two don't mix well. Apple Mail automatically saves a copy of a message that you're working on every 30 seconds in the Drafts folder, and then tells the server to remove the previous version from the ...
Embed a link in Apple Mail
If you want to include a URL link in Apple Mail, it's easy to do, but only if you know how. Here are instructions, in 3 easy steps. 1. While you are in the message compose window of Apple Mail, choose "Customize Toolbar", from the View menu. 2. In there, you'll find a "Link" button. Drag this into ...
PC’s have junkware. So do Macs. News at 11
Here at IvanExpert, we really don't spend much time with PC's, but a few of our clients have them in mixed environments with Macs. I looked at one today -- relatively new -- that wasn't performing right. And, lo and behold, there was crud galore installed, none of which was known about or intended ...
Why do messages disappear from Gmail on an iPhone or iPad?
This is the possible first in a series of posts on Gmail's idiosyncratic behaviors with Mail on Macs, iPhones and iPads. Many of our clients who interact exclusively with their Gmail or Google Apps accounts through their Macs and iPhones have reported messages "disappearing". Here's what's usually ...