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, ...
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 ...
Dead Hard Drive in My iMac
My hard drive in my iMac died this week. The iMac is from late 2008, so it’s less than 5 years old, and this is the 2nd drive that’s died; the drive it originally came with was replaced a few years ago already. Here’s how I diagnosed the issue, and got myself running again. About 2 weeks ago I ...
iPhone and iPad Productivity Tools
Allison Sheridan from podfeet.com gave a fantastic presentation at Macworld on productivity apps and tools for iPhone and iPad. Here are the 10 top tips from her presentation. 1. iThoughts Her favorite mind-mapping software. Allows you to export lots of different ways, so you can do your mind ...