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 ...
Phishing Attacks Targeting Apple Users
9 to 5 Mac has an article about how phishing attacks targeting users of Apple products have increased by 30-40% per year. The article states, In the first half of this year, around 1.6 million phishing attacks attempting to fool people into using their Apple ID credentials to log in to a fake Apple ...
Rant: Why is Apple still selling snail-snow iMacs with hard drives in them?
Apple's a premium brand, and they make almost uniformly excellent products. If you buy something Apple, even if you a minimum configuration, you have the confidence that you're not getting crap. Unless you buy an iMac that has a hard drive or Fusion drive--which is the standard option for most of ...
Why You Need a Password Manager
The New York Times has an article this week entitled Why You Need a Password Manager. Yes, You. Andrew Cunningham, the author of the article and a lead editor at Wirecutter, only recently started using a password manager and he makes a strong case for why it's imperative that you do the same. He ...
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. ...