Google makes incredibly powerful and useful tools, but they also have their own bizarro world logic and inconsistent UI that can be hard to follow. Gmail's probably the best example of this--it's entirely different from other email systems, so it can be a love or hate affair, especially if you ...
Phishing Attacks Targeting Apple Users
9 to 5 Mac has an article about how phishing attacks targeting users of Apple products have increased by 30-40% per year. The article states, In the first half of this year, around 1.6 million phishing attacks attempting to fool people into using their Apple ID credentials to log in to a fake Apple ...
Mesh WiFi, and using Eero as a wireless to wired bridge
Mesh WiFi has been a tremendous development for easily spreading WiFi around a larger home or office. It's self-configuring repeating--you just drop your additional units in and the system figures out what to do. We've tried a few, and they mostly do what they're supposed to, including Linksys ...
Rant: Why is Apple still selling snail-snow iMacs with hard drives in them?
Apple's a premium brand, and they make almost uniformly excellent products. If you buy something Apple, even if you a minimum configuration, you have the confidence that you're not getting crap. Unless you buy an iMac that has a hard drive or Fusion drive--which is the standard option for most of ...
Why You Need a Password Manager
The New York Times has an article this week entitled Why You Need a Password Manager. Yes, You. Andrew Cunningham, the author of the article and a lead editor at Wirecutter, only recently started using a password manager and he makes a strong case for why it's imperative that you do the same. He ...
Where did Microsoft hide Outlook’s category filters?
As far as I'm concerned, one of the single best reasons to use Microsoft Outlook with Exchange mail hosting is the concept of categories. It doesn't seem like rocket science, so I don't know why other mail systems don't have anything equivalent. Outlook just allows any contact (or anything else) to ...