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SWITCHING FROM PC TO MAC
Laplink just came out with “Switch & Sync” which copies all files and folders from a PC to a Mac. This includes your documents, email, contact lists and calendars. Ironically, not as many people...
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NEW FOR THE MAC
Playing Windows games on the Mac A goodie for Mac users is “CrossOver Games.” With it you can run popular Windows games on your Mac or Linux computer. The games include the usual suspects:...
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NETWORK YOUR MAC AND WINDOWS COMPUTERS
“Network Your Computers and Devices,“ $18 at Amazon.com, is the latest in Microsoft’s excellent “Step by Step” series. The book covers networking computers with different operating systems, including...
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TOO MUCH MAIL
Here’s how we get hung-up: You have an important email message to send. So you go to your email program and are just about to send it, when … you see all these enticing messages waiting for your...
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FREE ANTIVIRUS FOR THE MAC
The Flashback Trojan attacked Mac users recently. We read that it was the first serious attack on Mac users in 28 years, but actually Flashback Trojan was the son of last year’s DevilRobber and its 18...
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MY MACBOOK
“My MacBook, Mountain Lion Edition, 3rd Edition,” by John Ray, $25 from QuePublishing.com. This book has everything you need to make the switch from Windows to Mac, which can be confusing at first. It...
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SKETCHBOOK FOR THE IPAD OR MAC
Sketchbook Express for the Mac or the iPad gives you a sketchpad and a lot of tools for transforming your drawings. We especially liked the mirroring tool. Draw a heart on the right and you’ll get a...
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RECOVERING FILES ON THE MAC
Joy’s sister considered buying a new Mac just because she lost all her photos on the old one. “Disk Drill Pro” from CleverFiles.com is an $89 program for recovering stuff. There’s no guarantee that...
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CHANGING OUR MINDS ABOUT MACS
The dirty little secret of tech journalists is we’re hard pressed for time. When we got our first Macbook Air last fall, we were full of praise. Now we have second, third and fourth thoughts. The...
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THE MAC AT WORK
A reader told us he’s getting a Mac but wishes he could keep the Windows version of “Quicken” because the Mac version is, as he put it, “a real dog.” (He’s a man of few words.) Making the Mac work the...
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BEYOND PHOTOSHOP
“ColorStrokes,” a $5 app for Mac users, has been the most popular “color splash” app for two years in a row. If like us, you’ve never heard of a color splash app, stay tuned, because they’re...
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WINDOWS OR MAC?
The start button returns. A preview of the new Windows 9 operating system will be shown all over the known universe this Fall. The scuttlebutt is it will correct the mess known as Windows 8; computer...
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JUMPING OUT OF WINDOWS
Several years ago, one of our friends announced he’d had it with Windows. He went out and bought two Macbooks, one for himself, one for his wife. We’re slow but we’re starting to see his point. Feeling...
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WET MACS
Joy converted to using a Mac a couple months ago, after her Windows 10 machine became so slow she almost tossed it out the window. Then Bob spilled tea on the Mac (It was an accident! Really!) and the...
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OFFICE POLITICS
Almost 50 percent of workers surveyed by the staffing agency Robert Half said that office politics were necessary to get ahead. Of the 80 percent of workers who experienced office politics on the...
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WATCHING TV SPORTS ANYWHERE
When our friend from Wisconsin (No, his name is not Yon Yonson) is in our neck-of-the-woods, he wants to watch the Green Bay Packer games on his phone. Can he do it? One way is to use “Watch ESPN,” a...
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THE RIGHT BROWSER
Which is the safest way to browse the web: Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, or Mozilla Firefox? According to the blog “How to Geek,” Edge has a slight edge. Many say Firefox has the last word on privacy...
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THE WEB AND ITS DISCONTENTS
This comes up pretty regularly. A reader writes to ask if it’s worth paying $70 a year for anti-virus protection, or should he use Windows’ own built-in support? A large surge in so-called “Ransom...
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AUGMENTED REALITY
What’s hot? Fake reality, that’s what’s hot. What’s really great about the technology business is the number of things you can do and make even if nobody wants them. Who knows? Somebody might buy it....
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POP-UPS ON YOUR PHONE
Android Emulator from Andyroid.net An interesting thing happened: Joy was looking up recipes at VegetarianTimes.com. But as she was viewing these in the Chrome browser on her Android phone, she was...
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