If you have a lot of files on your Mac and you haven’t yet discovered Quick Look, you’re in for a pleasant surprise. Especially if you didn’t give each file a unique name that tells you exactly what the file is about! Instead of opening those files you need to identify, and waiting patiently for [Read More…]
Mac Computer
The “spinning beach ball” on your Mac
Linda B. asks: “What’s with the spinning beach ball on my computer?” We’ve all seen it, the colorful pinwheel-like ball, merrily spinning away as we wait and wonder… In this video we explain what the spinning beach ball – sometimes called “the spinning beach ball of death!” means when you see it on your Mac. [Read More…]
Six mistakes people make with the Calendar app
Are you using the Calendar app on your Mac computer and/or your iPhone? We hear from folks who avoid the Calendar because it’s confusing at first. Admittedly it’s just not as user-friendly as some of Apple’s other apps. We started using Calendar in earnest last year, and now we wouldn’t want to do without it. [Read More…]
iCloud for iPhone and iPad (Mac too!)
Continuing our series on iCloud, we explain in this video how iCloud works on your iPhone and iPad. We’ll also show you some of the very cool things you can do when you “sync” your Safari internet browser on all your Apple devices – for example, did you know that you can start reading a [Read More…]
How iCloud Drive works
We are often asked, “Is iCloud Drive the same thing as iCloud?” or “What the heck is Optimization?” If anything is more confusing than iCloud, it’s iCloud Drive. In this video we explain how iCloud Drive works, including what that strange “Desktop and Documents” option does if you dare enable it. We strongly recommend that [Read More…]
Overview of iCloud
Do you feel confident in your understanding of how iCloud works? What about syncing? Are you certain about what is and is not going to iCloud on your various Apple devices? In this video we present an overview of iCloud to help you get the “big picture” of how iCloud works with your Mac computer, [Read More…]
Screen Sharing for Mac computers
One way we can help you when you have a question or problem with your Mac computer is to utilize the Mac’s built-in software for sharing your computer screen. This has been a great way for us to continue providing tech support during these stay-at-home days. In this video we show you how to [Read More…]
iCloud, Photos & Syncing
When we ask people if they are syncing their photos with iCloud, we often hear hesitation in their responses. We’ve encountered clients who believe they are syncing, but when we dig into things we discover they are not. Or folks who don’t want to use iCloud for syncing and are surprised when we show them [Read More…]
