If you have an old iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch that you want to sell, give away, or recycle, make sure you erase all your data and personal information first. Here's how: Go to Settings > General > Reset (all the way at the bottom) Tap Erase All Content and Settings Enter your passcode ...
Foldable Electric Bike from WhizzyRide
I was in Miami recently and saw these foldable electric bikes from a company called WhizzyRide. Might be a great item for NYC because it does fold up small enough to wheel it into an elevator (at the office or at home). Distance you can ride before recharging is about 20 miles. It does weigh 40 ...
In El Capitan and Sierra, you have to format an external drive twice to make it work with a Mac
All external hard drives are physically the same, whether or not they're marketed as being Mac-friendly or not. Mac-ready drives usually cost a little more for the same piece of hardware that you'd otherwise get. So, if you buy an external hard drive that is formatted for Windows, you need to ...
Save a PDF from your iPhone or iPad
iOS 10 for the iPhone and iPad brought some pretty useful features. One of the less known ones is the ability to save a PDF rather than printing. It's not intuitive enough to discover, but here's how you do it: In your app that you wish to print from, tap on whatever you need to to print. In most ...
Internet Recovery Disk on 2010 Macs now boots to Sierra instead of Lion
If you have a 2010 or Early 2011 model Mac, and have current firmware updates applied to it, you can boot it into Internet Recovery. This would allow you to install 10.7 Lion, but only if you'd previously downloaded it from the Mac App Store. But I've discovered that these older computers instead ...
Installing old versions of macOS
Usually, you want to be running the latest version of macOS, which at this moment is 10.12 Sierra (version 10.12.3), available for free from the Mac App Store. But, sometimes, for one reason or another, you might want to install an older version of macOS. Here's how you get them, and some of the ...