PrintNightmare: Microsoft’s urgent warning about your PC, and your options.
On the heels of a massive ransomware attack, Microsoft just announced to the world a major Windows vulnerability that makes using a PC feel like driving a car with a bomb in the trunk. If this is starting to feel like the movie Groundhog’s Day, you’re not alone. And if this is unacceptable to you, here’s what to do about it.
The world’s best Apple-Authorized data recovery.
I recently spent two years of my life working with the team at DriveSavers. There are other data recovery companies out there, but no company has the unique set of experiences, decisions and philosophies that happen to make DriveSavers the best in the world, without exception.
What you really look like online.
In our new normal, Zoom, Skype and Google Meet are where we meet up, hang out, do business, teach/learn, and even party (responsibly). This raises important questions: Does how you look online matter? And how do you look your best?
Why using a professional, personal email account is smart.
You need to get your email in order. Making email totally reliable, completely searchable, and doing all of this without disrupting your workflow. Here’s how you do it.
Thoughts on the iPad Pro
Apple’s new iPad Pro is a beautiful instrument. It’s precisely what I expected, and so much more. Besides being awesome at anything I need in business, it is also great for movie-night snuggling.
The 4 absolutely essential apps every professional needs.
These are the 4 most critical apps that every household and every professional absolutely needs. Once in place, they can eliminate “breakable” personal data disasters and put down pillows under all your “bounceables.”
Why do executives with $1,000 iPhones still use Windows PCs?
With each year’s next generation, Apple’s iPhone is almost perfectly aligned with an executive’s priorities: Easy to use, reliable, fun and extraordinarily useful. A Windows PC is very much the opposite. It’s a tool, much like a typewriter.
So why do some executives with $1,000+ iPhones still use Windows PCs?
Apple’s store closures is the Gold Standard of social responsibility.
With just six days to go until Christmas, Apple just closed all 53 Apple Retail stores in California, dozens of stores across Utah, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Alaska, Nebraska, New Mexico, and another 16 stores across the UK, Mexico and Brazil. What caught my attention about the press coverage around Apple’s action is the almost total lack of attention to what is so incredible about this.
Upgrading to macOS Big Sur? Do this first.
A new macOS upgrade is out in the wild today. I think it’s a great upgrade, but no matter what, there will be someone today who lose all their data as a result of upgrading. It happens every year, like clockwork, and it’s totally preventable.
My thoughts on macOS Big Sur
macOS Big Sur is the most important and the best macOS update to happen in over 20 years.
Safe and convenient data transfers during COVID-19 for Apple Store customers
Apple Stores around the world have stopped doing data transfers in-store because of COVID-19. This is a great move on Apple’s part. Fortunately, there’s another way to get your data transfer that’s both safe for your data and safe for your health.
Turning off beeps and notifications during a Zoom call or other meeting
Here’s how to turn off beeps and other notifications in Apple’s Big Sur so you can have uninterrupted, focused meetings.
Taking a screen shot of an entire web page
There’s an easy way to make a perfectly printable PDF from a web page, or even take a single, seamless picture, no matter how long the page is.