Computers and devices like iPhones and iPads are a fashion market in themselves. Not only have we chosen a fairly exclusive fashion label in Apple, but we engage in all sorts of accessorising too.
Category Archive: Technology
Yosemite’s extended search reaches out to Bing, Maps, and more. But how can you get the best out of its local search facility?
The consensus is that Apple’s built-in malware protection is not that hot, and commercial anti-virus tools are next to useless. Does removing Java improve security more?
In my regular commentary written in August 2011, I clocked up my 400th Help section in MacUser. Here is my momentarily smug reflection on that milestone.
Losing documents – cherished photos, or vital work – is tragic, costly, and wastes time. Combat the risk by designing a backup strategy.
Whenever my friend attaches a PDF to a message in Mail, it opens and gets embedded in the message, rather than being attached as a file. How can he change that behaviour?
Every Renault dealer in the UK must have breathed a sigh of relief when the Wind passed into history a couple of years ago, and they were able to sell cars again without having to pinch their thighs or bite their lips to stifle sniggers.
There is nothing so frustrating as watching a great movie but being unable to save it, or watch it on your iPad or Apple TV. It all comes down to formats.
A couple of preference settings, controlling automatic correction of spelling errors and ‘from’ addressing, that I have made in Mail keep becoming undone whenever I restart my Mac mini. How can I get them to persist properly?
Written following Steve Jobs’ death on 5 October 2011.
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