One of the Mac’s best features for tech types has been disabled by default in Sierra: being able to save the passphrase for an SSH public-private key pair in the macOS keychain. If you don’t know what that means, then you probably don’t need to worry about it. But if you do, it means that you’ll ...
Download the latest Microsoft Office for Mac installers
Somehow, I stumbled across an incredibly useful page on Microsoft's web site which has the latest Mac installers for Microsoft Office 2016, Microsoft Office 2011, and other releases. This is pretty useful, because: It doesn't require that you log into Microsoft's confusing web site in order just ...
Met Museum Makes 375,000 Images Freely Available
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has just made over 375,000 images digitally available for download and use under a Creative Commons license. Any images that the Met says are in the public domain are available “for unrestricted use, at no cost.” That means you can use them for personal purposes ...
Blast from the Past: Vintage iPod Circa 2004
One of our clients just found an old iPod -- this one looks like it's 4th generation, from about 2004, based on Wikipedia's iPod page. These had actual hard drives inside, with moving parts, so after many years often the drives failed. However this one is still working! We were able to ...
Apple 5th Ave Store Relocating for Renovations
The Apple Store on 5th Ave and 59th Street is moving to the former FAO Schwartz site (which is on the same block) while the underground store gets renovated. First day in the new temporary location is January 20th. No word on how long the renovations will take -- or on what is being changed! (Photo ...
New Adapter Lets You Charge iPhone 7 AND Listen to Music
The new iPhone 7 announced by Apple doesn't have a headphone port, as we all know. You're supposed to plug your headphones into the Lightning port. (Unless you want to pay an exorbitant amount for the wireless headphones...) So what happens if you want to charge your phone AND listen to music at ...