Ask Adam LLC: macOS & iOS consulting
Everybody needs backup. The easiest way to back up your Mac right now is to sign up with Backblaze. You can begin backing up in seconds, without even sharing your credit card info. I use Backblaze on all my Macs and almost all of my clients do too. You can get started with Backblaze by […]
We often recommend using a password manager, but we’ve gotten a few questions asking why we’re so adamant about this. Lots of people think that all they need to do to keep their online accounts secure is create a single password with some numbers, often switching a lowercase L with a 1 and a capital […]
With luck, you should never need to check your iPhone’s or iPad’s warranty status. But bad things do happen to good devices. In iOS 12.2, Apple made it easy to see if your device is still under warranty or covered by AppleCare+. Go to Settings > General > About, where you’ll find a new entry […]
[Lisa Jackson, vice president of Environment, Policy, and Social Initiatives] said Apple now strives to design and build durable products that last as long as possible. That means long-lasting hardware coupled with long-lasting software. She pointed out that iOS 12 runs even on iPhone 5S, now five years old. Because iPhones last longer, you can […]
Watch this short video — I didn’t know about this affordance for switching apps, and it’s brilliant. The best thing about the iPhone X? The new swipe gestures — zeiPAD
The only safe way to run Flash on a Mac is to uninstall the Flash Player and use Google Chrome to view Flash-based content. To uninstall Flash, check out the simple instructions here: How to remove Flash on the Mac – Peter Cohen
On December 12 of last year, I spoke to the Main Line Mac Users Group (mlmug.org) about do-it-yourself troubleshooting for common OS X and iOS issues. The one-word summary: restart. If that doesn’t work, help yourself to the slides and see if there’s anything useful in there! The Slides: Troubleshooting OS X and iOS (pdf)
It is not only well within Apple’s rights to produce a product that happens to be warrant-proof, but it’s actually Apple’s responsibility to create a product that’s capable of enforcing the highest level of security permitted by our country’s laws… not the lowest. Apple is well within not only their rights, but in practices that support and place appropriate […]
Seems like more and more lately I’ve been seeing symbols in the iPhone’s weather app that I can’t immediately interpret. Here’s a handy chart to help with that. (Click to enlarge!)
It’s called “A first look at the Health app in IOS 8” but it’s a pretty thorough & thoughtful critique. (My first look was more like: “looks neat”.) I’m bummed that the app seems to have lost access to any data recorded before the 8.0.2 update. I’ve taken many months of steps!