Every now and then, I am using an application on my Mac or iPhone and I stop and marvel at how its creators got it exactly right, and say a private thank you for them having made something so useful or enjoyable. DaisyDisk is that kind of app. I love it. It shows you a map of what's taking up space ...
Snow Leopard in Parallels Desktop
This is a technical post on how to get the Snow Leopard OS running on a Mac in Parallels Desktop, so that older Apple software can be run on a newer Mac. It has been verified on Parallels 16.1.0. If you want our office to set this up for you (which we can do remotely), please email ...
Making sense of Microsoft Office 2016, 2019, 365
Microsoft is notorious for their product segmenting and confusing naming. As I've mentioned elsewhere, they have multiple subscription services under the banner of "Office 365" -- which they are renaming to "Microsoft 365". These services can include Office software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, ...
Remove Google Contacts and Holidays from Calendar on your Mac, iPhone or iPad
When you add a Google calendar to Apple's Calendar app for Mac, iPhone, or iPad, you get two "calendars" you may or may not want, one for Holidays, which is redundant with Apple's own Holidays calendar, and another, confusingly, for Contacts. It's possible to hide these from being displayed by ...
Google GSSMO vs GSMMO
Google makes incredibly powerful and useful tools, but they also have their own bizarro world logic and inconsistent UI that can be hard to follow. Gmail's probably the best example of this--it's entirely different from other email systems, so it can be a love or hate affair, especially if you ...
Mesh WiFi, and using Eero as a wireless to wired bridge
Mesh WiFi has been a tremendous development for easily spreading WiFi around a larger home or office. It's self-configuring repeating--you just drop your additional units in and the system figures out what to do. We've tried a few, and they mostly do what they're supposed to, including Linksys ...