Microsoft Outlook, the stalwart all-in-one Mail/Calendar/Contacts app for Mac (and Windows), designed foremost (but not exclusively) to work with Microsoft Exchange servers, has been around approximately forever. Many still use it, and even though I no longer do, I'll be the first to recognize it ...
After all these years, FileMaker Pro is still pretty cool and useful
Way back in yonder day, in freaking 1990, Claris, a subsidiary of Apple, released FileMaker Pro for both Mac and Windows (though it had existed in previous forms with different names even earlier than that). It was a database app that allowed you to keep track of, well, whatever you really wanted ...
Using authenticator app codes for 2FA
This is the third in a series of posts on keeping yourself safe online by protecting your accounts. Please also read the first two, where I go over the basics of two-factor authentication, and the pros and cons of using SMS (text message) with it. To quickly recap, two-factor authentication (2FA) ...
Free TeamViewer now requires using the latest version; AnyDesk is an alternative
TeamViewer, the erstwhile remote control software that we here at IvanExpert use for remote controlling our clients' computers, has, like every other company, been hard at work trying to figure out how to get more money from their existing users. So, they have been narrowing the lane in which ...
Using Moneydance to get Quicken Essentials for Mac data into modern Quicken or other personal finance software
Mac users have a long and sordid history with Intuit, the original developers of Quicken. The product has always been second class compared to its Windows version. Recently I had a client who had been using the ill-fated Quicken Essentials for Mac, and I was surprised to discover that modern Quicken ...
Google Drive software for Mac will merge Google Workspace and consumer versions, and lose selective sync ability
There are a ton of cloud storage providers at this point: Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, Apple iCloud Drive, Google Drive, and more. Google Drive has been gradually displacing Dropbox over many years as the cloud drive of choice for those who need to share documents, and who are not embedded in ...