How would you describe a digital hog? For Mac users, the world’s most proficient digital hog is Adobe’s no-longer-quite-so-ubiquitous Flash plugin. Tell me what Mac app contributes more to global warming than Flash? It sits in your Mac browser sucking up CPU juice, draining battery juice, and just when you least expect it, Flash locks … Continue Reading »

Who among us does not have some refrigerator art? Think photos, reminders, notes, recipes, shopping list. That’s common, right? How about a cork board for messages, notes, todo items, and more. That’s common, too, right? Well, here we are in the digital age where real life items show up in the digital realm, including the … Continue Reading »

Your Mac’s screen, whether Mac book or iMac, is capable of many different resolutions. How do you change a screen’s resolution? There are two basic ways. Use Apple’s System Preferences > Displays > Display > Scaled. Select the screen resolution you want and you’re good to go. Or, find a Mac app that also changes … Continue Reading »

The entire camera and industry owes a debt of gratitude to Apple for creating iPhoto. The only problem I’ve had with iPhoto through the years is managing the ever growing number of digital photos. Where will it all end? Does the iPhoto library just continue to grow until we can’t save photos onto our Macs … Continue Reading »

Fragmentation. That’s what’s happening to the world. From social media to politics to education to technology, humanity seems to be devolving into a pool of fragmentation. Nothing is more evident of that than modern technology. Look at the crazy number of phones and the many millions of apps for phones, tablets, PCs, and Macs. Another … Continue Reading »

It doesn’t matter too much the time of year, but we here in the greater Chicagoland area love to mix our pastimes while quaffing down a brewski. Or two. Or more. Some clever Mac app developer came up with an idea to add a little something special to iTunes. A Think Different™ music player that … Continue Reading »

We’re a little paranoid about backups here in the O’Brien Headquarters. Each of our Macs have an external disk drive. A big one. And each Mac backs up critical files– documents, music, photos, movies– to another Mac on the home network (which, in turn, gets backed up to each external disk; not to mention a … Continue Reading »