There are a ton of cloud storage providers at this point: Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, Apple iCloud Drive, Google Drive, and more. Google Drive has been gradually displacing Dropbox over many years as the cloud drive of choice for those who need to share documents, and who are not embedded in ...
Making Mac Mail in Big Sur behave more like previous versions
Apple made some changes to Mac Mail in Big Sur (and, presumably, forthcoming versions) that some are finding disorienting. The old behavior, as it has stood approximately forever, is that the "special folders" of accounts—Inbox, Sent, Drafts, Junk, Trash, and Archive—were collected together and ...
What will Apple give you for your old Mac, iPhone, or iPad?
Apple, for the last few years, will let you "trade in" an older model of one of their products. This can be done at any time, not only when you're purchasing something new; they'll give you a gift card with the value of the trade-in. To see what they'll give you for your old stuff, go to this page: ...
The strange version numbers of Microsoft Office for Mac
Microsoft Office for Mac has been around forever. In recent history, since 2015 or so, rather than waiting for a single great big new version every few years, Office now receives an update every month, and these updates bring both new features and bug fixes. The one-time purchase also gets monthly ...
Microsoft Office (Word/Excel/PowerPoint/Outlook): subscribe to 365, or buy outright?
Microsoft Office for Mac -- that is, the suite of applications that includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook (Home & Business edition and 365 subscription edition only), OneNote, Teams, and OneDrive -- receives a new update monthly. The current version in July 2021 is version 16.50, next month ...
Microsoft Office [Word/Excel/PowerPoint/Outlook]: macOS version compatibility
Microsoft Office only supports the last three versions of macOS. So if you want to install it onto an older version of macOS, you need to know what the last supported version number is. You can download that from Update History for Office for Mac, or use the direct links provided here. Big Sur ...