A significant danger to businesses today is phishing—the act of forging email to fool someone into revealing login credentials, credit card numbers, or other sensitive information. Of course, phishing is a problem for individuals too, but attackers more frequently target businesses for the same reason as bank robber Willie Sutton’s apocryphal quote about why [...]
The iMac has long been the core of Apple’s desktop lineup, but it hasn’t received any updates since June 2017. Now, however, Apple has quietly updated the 21.5-inch iMac with Retina 4K display and the 27-inch iMac with 5K Retina display while keeping prices the same. The bargain-basement non-Retina 21.5-inch iMac remains for sale, [...]
We talked last month generally about real-time collaboration and why it’s so efficient and effective—see “Stop Mailing Files Around and Use Collaborative Apps.” Now we’re going to explain how to start collaborating in Apple’s iWork suite of apps: Pages, Numbers, and Keynote. Happily, the basics are similar in all three apps. We’ll focus on [...]
iPad mini lovers, rejoice! If you’ve been holding onto an aging iPad mini because of its small size, you’ll be happy to learn that Apple has at long last released a new 7.9-inch iPad mini with modern-day technologies. Joining it in the lineup is a new 10.5-inch iPad Air that turns out to be a [...]
Little is more frustrating than running out of space your iPhone or iPad. You can’t take new photos, you can’t download new apps, some things may not work at all, and iOS will nag you repeatedly about how you can “manage” your storage in Settings. Luckily, over the past few versions of iOS, Apple [...]
Instead of needing to download a file to your Mac and using preview or a third-party application to make edits or annotations, iOS 9 has added Markup and Reply. Simply tap and hold to open an attachment from an email sent or received and select Markup and Reply from the Share sheet. Use the handy [...]
You know there’s a document you worked on last week but for the life of you, you can’t remember what you called it. Never mind. You can open Documents and search, assuming you’ve ordered the contents by date. Or in the Spotlight search box you can type “Documents I worked on last week” and they’ll [...]
Notes is the most redesigned app to debut in iOS 9. It has moved far beyond its pedestrian origin as a simple text app, to a full-fledged word-loving application. Notes for iOS 9 brings advanced formatting, actionable checklists, bulleted lists, embedded sketching, URL thumbnails, Maps support, and so much more. Make use of the checklists [...]
El Capitan has been given a lot more information to help you find stuff quicker. So there’s sports information, stock quotes and video search, so the results it comes up with are more varied and more detailed even before you leave the Spotlight box. Oh, and by the way, you know how infuriating it was [...]
Simply put, iCloud Drive is a well-integrated, cloud-based file manager. Previously the only way to access iCloud drive was through third-party applications. Presently, iCloud Drive welcomes its very own application in iOS 9 that can be accessed at any time to view, download, or share stored files. (iPhonehacks.com)
