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iCloud, Spotlight, and Time Machine

When you keep documents in iCloud, are they backed up in Time Machine, searched in Spotlight, and kept securely?

November 14, 2016 Macs, Technology

Getting Office 2011 and old apps to work fully in Sierra

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A couple of simple tricks to help you use Word 2011 and other old apps with Sierra’s new features and iCloud Drive.

October 12, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Last Week on my Mac: Sierra, early impressions

The release of Sierra seems to have gone smoothly. Was it really a major release, though? What does it get wrong? What about third party support?

September 25, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Obscured by clouds: how Sierra breaks copy/move

Its increasingly hard to know where your files are, when you let Sierra manage your storage using iCloud. This is not a neat illusion, but a confusing deception.

September 22, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Dropbox, Sierra, and iCloud: your data is at risk

Don’t think that syncing with Dropbox and Sierra’s iCloud is safer: in the wrong circumstances it could lead to data loss. A serious conflict revealed.

September 21, 2016 Macs, Technology

Reported problems in macOS Sierra: an incomplete list

This is a list of bad features, poor interface design, problems with third-party apps, etc. Known bugs in […]

September 20, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

A break in the clouds: what to do when a cloud service plays up

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When you can’t get iCloud or Adobe CC to work, do you just keep trying, or curse the cloud? Some practical suggestions can help.

August 18, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Multiple Apple IDs, multiple users, and Family Sharing

Need to share some of your information with others? Have you thought about creating a secondary Apple ID?

July 7, 2016 General, Macs

The Mess in Music

I wish that my trial of Apple Music had cleaned up after itself. Instead my Music Library is a bit of a mess, and getting worse.

March 28, 2016 Macs, Technology

Encryption and the law: will vendors hand us the keys?

Instead of users being pawns in the game played by politicians against Apple, Apple could step aside and leave the politicians to deal with users direct.

March 20, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

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