If you use Entourage on your Mac for your mail, how many times has the program told you that your email database is corrupted? Because of the way Entourage stores mail (in one giant file), if even one email has a problem with it, the entire database may be unusable. There are a few solutions or ...
Are your email passwords secure?
One of our small business Mac clients related a disturbing story this week: She worked with a freelancer for many months on a project. Recently she found out that the freelancer had been logging on to her Gmail account and reading all her incoming and outgoing mails. She figured it out because ...
RSS Reading on the Mac and BlackBerry
A client whose profession is the news media and who lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan asked us to set up his home Mac and his BlackBerry with an RSS reader, so that he could keep up with specific blog posts and other news at home in the evenings and on the go. RSS stands for Really Simple ...
Traveling for Business with Your Mac
We are going to the MacTech Boot Camp in San Francisco tomorrow, and then to MacWorld. We've gotten to be experts at traveling with technology. Here are some of our Mac travel tips on traveling with technology. In-flight power: We use SeatGuru to figure out which are the best seats on the plane, ...
And yet another new one
I often say I see something new all the time in my work, and today it was my own computer who needed some expertise. It turns out that the files generated by a behind-the-scenes Mac OS X process called aslmanager was preventing me from, get this, opening Terminal. If you can't open Terminal, it's ...
Computer and Home Entertainment Cables, Deciphered
So why are there so many different kinds of computer tech cables, anyway? Why is it all so confusing? The New York Times online has a slideshow with close-up photos and descriptions of 12 different cables commonly used around the home or office. Plus they offer their opinion on whether to spend a ...