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 ...
Making Mac Mail in Big Sur behave more like previous versions
Apple made some changes to Mac Mail in Big Sur (and, presumably, forthcoming versions) that some are finding disorienting. The old behavior, as it has stood approximately forever, is that the "special folders" of accounts--Inbox, Sent, Drafts, Junk, Trash, and Archive--were collected together and ...
The strange version numbers of Microsoft Office for Mac
Microsoft Office for Mac has been around forever. In recent history, since 2015 or so, rather than waiting for a single great big new version every few years, Office now receives an update every month, and these updates bring both new features and bug fixes. The one-time purchase also gets monthly ...
Microsoft Office (Word/Excel/PowerPoint/Outlook): subscribe to 365, or buy outright?
Microsoft Office for Mac -- that is, the suite of applications that includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook (Home & Business edition and 365 subscription edition only), OneNote, Teams, and OneDrive -- receives a new update monthly. The current version in July 2021 is version 16.50, next month ...