We finally advise that it’s safe to upgrade your iPhone or iPad to iOS 8. The number of problems after the upgrade has quieted down after Apple’s updates. I just upgraded my iPhone to iOS 8 and am taking advantage of the Notification Center. What is the Notification Center? Put your finger at the ...
Best iPad Stylus?
I read the technology reviews site The Wirecutter, which tests tech hardware and software and advises on what’s the best and why. (I highly recommend you subscribe to their weekly email newsletter; they also have a related site The Sweethome for household items.) Last week they published an article ...
Quicken 2015 for Mac…exists
Frankly, I thought Quicken for Mac had been abandoned by Intuit. It's long been a second-class citizen compared with its Windows versions, with longstanding complaints of bugs, slow updates, poor support, and file format incompatibilities. Still, it was Quicken, the name brand of personal finance ...
Don’t lose that Mac MagSafe 2 converter!
Some of us have older MacBook Airs and MacBook Pros, and some have newer ones. And unfortunately the power cords aren't the same! So we have a lot of Apple MagSafe converters, to let us use the old power cords with the new Macs. However we keep losing them, because they are so tiny. To solve ...
The best way to read the New York Times digitally
The New York Times has a bewildering panoply of options for reading the paper digitally, including an almost-unknown but very awesome "Replica Edition" in which each page of the daily paper appears exactly as it does in print. (Hat tip to Dan Okrent for telling me about that, as I almost certainly ...
Prevent thieves from using your iPhone, iPad with Activation Lock
An article in the New York Times today discusses how the iPhone and other smartphones now have a way to make the device unusable if it’s stolen -- a so-called “kill switch.” In Apple’s iPhone and iPad, it’s called Activation Lock. It prevents other people from using your phone, turning off Find My ...