I hate those moments when you’re without Internet, yet you still need to see a webpage that you were looking at just moments earlier. It’s frustrating, but if you’re running Chrome or Firefox then getting to a recently viewed webpage while offline is easy. Both browsers have the ability to display content in their respective caches—temporarily …
Keep on ticking On our first day with Apple Watch, the iPhone battery ran out by the early evening, followed by Watch just a half an hour later. Perhaps our first day’s use had been a little excessive with app usage and messing around with settings, but it’s not as if we had run a …
If more than one Mac- or iOS device-using person lives under your roof—or if you share your Mac with one or more people—using Photos in a family situation can be a complicated affair. Because you can’t share Photos libraries across a network, you quickly end up with multiple libraries (one for each Mac user account) …
Whoever said technology doesn’t belong in the wild probably didn’t own an iPhone. Years ago, technology (we called it “electronics” back then) meant things like a Nintendo Game Boy, Sony Walkman or feature phone—things that took you out of your outdoor experience. These days, technology like the iPhone can actually enhance that experience—and maybe even …
The OS X version of Photos continues to provoke more questions than any other topic, likely because so many people have used iPhoto for so long and are working through the transition to software that was released while a little too green. While it ripens, I’m afraid the answer to so many of your questions …
A friend of Russ and Sheila Stevens needs to access his late father’s Outlook Express messages—tricky since Outlook Express is no longer available. My answer covers more than Outlook Express. Keeping old emails is pretty easy as long as you keep the same email client. Once you move from one mail client to another, however, …
In my previous two articles about using Spotlight on Yosemite, I looked at Spotlight basics and then showed you how to construct search queries with Spotlight. In this final article, I’m going to move from Spotlight to the Finder, and show you how to perform even more advanced searches. When you search in the Finder, …
As we talked about in last week’s Working Mac, you may have been led to believe that you don’t have to worry about computer viruses on your Mac. And, to some extent, there’s truth to that. While your Mac can definitely be infected with malware, Apple’s built-in malware detection and file quarantine capabilities are meant …
All about keeping organized This week’s roundup of new Mac apps brings you all kinds of ways to keep your folders tidy and files organized—plus a couple of apps just for fun. Address Book Clearout 2.0 If your contacts have turned into a duplicated mess, Grande Americano’s $5 Address Book Clearout (Mac App Store Link) …
Doug Schofield asked about “long-term storage for my most important data: My family tree, irreplaceable photos, interviews, and audio recordings.” I have family photos that go back more than 100 years. But I can’t be sure that, a hundred years from now, my descendants will have my photos. No one knows for how long your …