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 ...
Use Your Mac to Access your PC at the Office
A client with an office in Queens and a home on Long Island has a Windows PC in the office, and just bought an iMac for his home. He asked, could we set up his home iMac to allow him to remotely access his PC at the office? He used to do it from home with his old PC but he wasn't sure if he could do ...
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 ...
MacTech Boot Camp for Mac IT Professionals
Last week was the first Boot Camp event for Mac IT professionals serving small business and home users, organized by MacTech magazine. The event, held in San Francisco, was notable for its focus on non-tech content including marketing, branding, client relationships, and community. We gave the ...
OS X Lion: What’s Coming and What We’d Like to See
We just returned from the MacWorld 2011 conference and expo in San Francisco, where we attended various conference sessions. One of our favorite sessions was on OS X Lion, the next version of OS X after Snow Leopard—both what Apple has told us is coming, and what we hope will be included. The ...
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, ...