By now we all know it’s important to move around during the workday, not just sit in the same spot for hours at a time. I’ve been using the free Time Out software on my Mac for years. I can set it to ask me to take a break after X minutes, and I can set the break itself to X minutes. It's been very ...
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 ...
QuickBooks Online with Mac for Small Business
I just switched our office to QuickBooks Online for our accounting. It's one of these new categories of applications called "cloud services" (because everything runs on a server off in the cloud somewhere; you're not running actual software on your machine). This category is also referred to as ...
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 ...
How to Use the Web Securely When Away from Office or Home: VPN
I just got back from a week in Beijing, China. You may know that China blocks access to many American websites, such as the New York Times. So how did I read the Times online while I was there? The solution is the same one as the one I use when I’m in Starbucks or the library, using their public ...
Printing a PDF on Multiple Sheets of Paper from My Mac
I recently had to print out a floor plan, and it needed to be big enough for me to see all the tiny details. My printer only handles 8.5 x 11” paper. So what could I do, to print the floor plan bigger? A Mac app called SplitPrint made it super easy. I opened my PDF in SplitPrint, and told ...