This week Dr. Mac offers tips and hints for buying hard or solid-state disks to use as replacements, additional storage, or backups.
Cool New Stuff: Grid and Camo for Mac
New Hope for App Hoarders
Dr. Mac recounts his struggle to migrate only some of the apps on his old iPad to a new iPad, and how iMazing delivered exactly what he wanted.
More Reasons Dr. Mac Loves Apple Watches
Dr. Mac offers up more reasons he doesn’t think he’ll ever wear a “dumb” watch again, including complications, notifications, watch faces, and more.
Why Dr. Mac Loves Apple Watch
Dr. Mac explains why he loves Apple Watches (and why he expects to never wear another kind of wristwatch again).
What to Do When the Lights Suddenly Go Out
Dell froze over and Dr. Mac lost power (and water) when it snowed for days in Texas; here are his tips for coping with unreliable power or the threat of lightning
Kill Two Birds with the Free Twobird App
Dr. Mac was impressed with Twobird, a free (but full-featured) email client that also manages reminders, calendar events, and notes, all in a single uncluttered window.
Offsite Backups: Insurance for Treasured Files
According to Dr. Mac, if you want to avoid the risk of losing your photos, music, videos, documents, bookmarks, and every other precious file on your Mac, you absolutely, positively must have at least one offsite backup.
Eclectic Light: An Apple Geek’s Delight
Dr. Mac had heard about The Eclectic Light Company (on Mac Geek Gab) many times but had never visited it until recently (and boy was he impressed).
If This, Then That: Apps Working Together
Dr. Mac explains why he loves using IFTTT, a free platform that helps apps and services work better together.
Apple Arcade Is Better than Dr. Mac Expected
Now that Dr. Mac has an Arcade subscription for free, he’s been enjoying the games more than he thought he would.
My HomePod mini Experience: Portability, Intercom, and Dr. Mac's Conclusions
Dr. Mac found HomePod mini’s Intercom feature both fascinating and frustrating; learn more in Episode #419 of Dr. Mac’s Rants & Raves.
Dr. Mac's HomePod mini Experience
Dr. Mac takes a pair of HomePod minis for a test-drive and doesn’t know many (possibly any) speakers this size that sound this good.
I've Seen the Future of Macintosh
Dr. Mac intended to kick of 2021 with a “year in review” column, but it bored him and would have bored you, so instead he named Apple Silicon as the “Best Technological Achievement of 2020.”
Dr. Mac's Experience with an Apple Silicon (M1) Mac
With some trepidation, Dr. Mac bought a MacBook Pro M1 with only 8GB RAM because he didn’t want to wait a month for one with 16GB… Was eight (GB) enough?
When Things Don’t “Just Work” with Photos on Mac — the Not-So-Thrilling Conclusion
After countless hours spent creating new Photos libraries, reformatting his SSD, and reinstalling Big Sur (twice), Dr. Mac contacted Apple Support again, hoping the third time would be the charm…
Three Low-Cost (or No-Cost) Last-Minute Gifts
This week Dr. Mac offers his prescription for last-minute gift items that don’t suck…
When Things Don’t “Just Work” (in Photos for Mac) Part II
After two weeks of troubleshooting, Dr. Mac is still unable to create new shared albums in Photos…
When Things Don’t “Just Work” (in Photos for Mac)
Dr. Mac tried something that used to “just work” in Photos for Mac, but this time it didn’t…
My Big Sur Upgrade was Painless
Dr. Mac says, “since my first obligation is to you, gentle reader, I ignored my own advice and installed macOS Big Sur on my primary Mac a couple of days ago.” And he lived to tell the tale!
