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 ...
Where did Microsoft hide Outlook’s category filters?
As far as I'm concerned, one of the single best reasons to use Microsoft Outlook with Exchange mail hosting is the concept of categories. It doesn't seem like rocket science, so I don't know why other mail systems don't have anything equivalent. Outlook just allows any contact (or anything else) to ...
What to do if you can’t change your Google Chrome search engine on a Mac
After a Mac has been intruded upon with some rogue or unwanted software, what usually happens is that web browsers are taken over. Usually, running MalwareBytes and performing follow-up steps will fix this situation (see our previous post). But if you use Google Chrome, you may still have trouble. ...
What to do after running MalwareBytes on your Mac
If you've ever seen your search engine in Chrome, Safari or Firefox mysteriously redirected to a strange, non-Google search engine, or seen pop-up ads warning that your Mac may be infected, or that advertise dubious services, you're probably a victim of adware or malware on your Mac. The most ...
Synchronize your Downloads folder with iCloud Drive
iCloud Drive Desktop and Documents sync has been a game changer in terms of Mac users having the same stuff on all computers. Dropbox is probably more reliable and flexible, but it requires that you have a workflow of saving stuff into your Dropbox folder, and some Mac users just don't want to do ...
Why you might run older versions of macOS
macOS (or OS X, or Mac OS X, as it has been variously called) has had 13 major versions. Each brings with it new capabilities, but each also drops some older ones as well. Here is a non-comprehensive list of some of the things I might use an old version of macOS for: 10.0 Cheetah, 10.1 Puma, 10.2 ...