https://youtu.be/GkigAP1PfjU This MacVoices Live! session wraps up with Chuck Joiner, David Ginsburg, Eric Bolden, Web Bixby, Jeff Gamet, Jim Rea, and Marty Jencius considering an encouraging reason a UK lawsuit was dismissed, how Microsoft didn’t completely correct...
The MacVoices Live! panel looks briefly at the latest country getting into the “let’s fine big tech companies) game, and whether there is motive other than the stated one. Then, Chuck Joiner, David Ginsburg, Jeff Butts, Brian Flanigan-Arthurs, Jeff Gamet, Marty Jencius, and Jim Rea consider the impact of the iPhone on its 18th birthday, how it has affected their lives and how it continues to impact our daily activities.
https://youtu.be/Lif-YUQR-TQ This MacVoices Live! starts off with some commentary by Chuck Joiner on what he saw and what happened at CES 2025. Those included an affirmation of Apple’s focus on privacy as well as a misstep by Dell that resulted in a less-than-ideal...
https://youtu.be/wxx7Fr8yyQc The MacVoices Live! panel of Chuck Joiner, David Ginsburg, Jeff Gamet, Brian Flanigan-Arthurs, Jim Rea, Marty Jencius, Eric Bolden, Web Bixby, and Patrice Brend’amour look at how the loss of bootable backups impacts user convenience as...
Reacting to some recent security developments, The FBI is recommending utilizing encrypted chat programs like Apple’s Messages. Chuck Joiner, David Ginsburg, Marty Jencius, Jim Rea, Eric Bolden, Web Bixby, and Mark Fuccio discuss how and why this change of position affects users, especially those who cross platforms, and why the FBI’s position is inconsistently consistent. Then, an iCloud discussion breaks out among the panel based on the dismissal of a lawsuit.
The second part of our discussion with Joe Kissell, the author of Take Control of Apple Mail,5th edition focuses on how Joe extends the capabilities of the program by using third party utilities, some of the necessary but annoying security interruptions imposed on...
Joe Kissell has updated Take Control of Apple Mail to the 5th edition. In the first part of our discussion, Joe outlines some of the nastier bugs in Apple Mail, including one that can lose data, explains why you may want to avoid column view, and why recovering a...
Like most of us years, and maybe even decades, of your family photos are in the proverbial shoe box under a bed somewhere. Derrick Story has a new course, Digitizing Family Memories, that will help you through the process of converting them to digital format, from...
Jeff Carlson continues his discussion of the snapshot feature in macOS, explaining why disk Utility takes longer because of snapshots and why it is worth it, how to delete snapshots and why you shouldn’t, and more information to help you understand and use snapshots...
Jeff Carlson draws on information from his Take Control of Your Digital Storage to help us understand macOS snapshots. A function of recent version of macOS, snapshots facilitate backups and data recovery in a way that is similar to, but different from, Time Machine....
Part 2 of our discussion with Bryan Chaffin of The Mac Observer starts with reading in bed with the iPad and ends with Apple TV+. In between we cover laptop use, Apple TV (the device), voice control expectations, Apple Pay, Apple Card, and why you should watch the...
Bryan Chaffin of The Mac Observer has had some issues with Apple’s product release schedules in the past. He weighs in on how things have been going in recent months, both before and during the COVID-19 lockdown. Bryan also begins an evaluation of Apple’s products...
Rosemary Orchard returns to talk about her most recent project: taking over WhenWorks, the service that helps you schedule your appointments with others at times of mutual convenience without revealing your entire calendar. Rosemary explains how she came to WhenWorks,...
TidBITS publisher Adam Engst continues his conversation on the 30th anniversary of their email newsletter, explaining why TidBITS avoided adopting publishing trends, why introducing graphics helps the reader, and in spite of all the changes, email remains the dominant...
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