by Terry McAdams | May 13, 2025 | AI, Business, Security
Are employees at your company surreptitiously using artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, and Gemini for everyday business tasks? It’s likely. An October 2024 Software AG study found that half of all employees use “shadow AI” tools to enhance...
by Terry McAdams | May 9, 2025 | 1Password, How-To, password manager, passwords, Security
No one likes passwords. Users find managing them annoying, and website managers worry about login credentials being stolen in a data breach. The industry has developed a better solution: passkeys. Passwords versus Passkeys Traditional multi-factor authentication...
by Terry McAdams | May 7, 2025 | Calendar, Reminders, troubleshooting
Calendar events are usually straightforward. For instance, if you schedule a meeting for 3 PM on Thursday, an alert will remind you to leave 30 minutes beforehand. However, since we live in an increasingly global world, we occasionally have to consider time zones when...
by Terry McAdams | May 5, 2025 | Firefox, How-To, Mac, productivity
As more of our lives shift online, it becomes increasingly important to establish boundaries between different aspects of our digital activities. Many people maintain separate work and personal email addresses for this reason. But you don’t have to stop there. Modern...
by Terry McAdams | May 2, 2025 | iPhone, privacy, Tip
In iOS 18.2, Apple enhanced the Find My app, enabling you to create a temporary Web page that shares the location of a lost AirTag or other Find My-tracked item. You don’t need to know the person’s email address or share any other information, and the link...
by Mike Hendren | May 2, 2025 | Tech History
April 28, 2003 The music marketplace is revolutionized once more as Apple launches the iTunes Music Store. Consumers can purchase music for 99¢ a song for use with the Apple iPod and iTunes software. Of course Apple was not the first to offer a digital music sales...
by Terry McAdams | Apr 26, 2025 | Business, Internet, New Technology
If you’re a business owner, especially one who keeps an eye on technology trends, you’ve probably started seeing a lot more ads lately about Web3 domains — names like yourbusiness.eth, yourbrand.crypto, and others. Like a lot of people, I wasn’t exactly sure how these...
by Terry McAdams | Apr 23, 2025 | Business
Every company today conducts business online, by sending email, if nothing else. That’s true even if your firm operates primarily in the physical world—customers undoubtedly find you by browsing in Apple Maps, searching in Spotlight, and asking Siri for directions. If...
by Terry McAdams | Apr 15, 2025 | Face ID, privacy, Security, Touch ID
When we think about digital and device security, we mostly think about the fixed locations where people spend most of their time—home, school, and work. But what about when you’re traveling? Some security concerns remain the same when you’re on the road, but new ones...
by Terry McAdams | Apr 11, 2025 | Siri, Tip
As we’ve been covering Apple’s staged rollout of Apple Intelligence, one announced feature that has remained tantalizingly in the future is the enhanced version of Siri that would have onscreen awareness, understand your personal context, and be able to interact with...
by Terry McAdams | Apr 8, 2025 | privacy, Security, Tip
We hate to encourage paranoia, but all is not well with Google Search. Recently, we’ve heard of multiple instances where people were nearly taken advantage of due to relying on the top result in a Google search. In one case, a user called a purported HP support phone...
by Terry McAdams | Apr 3, 2025 | Firefox, Mac, productivity, Tip
If you have Control- or right-clicked on text in a Web browser in the last year or two, you may have seen an oddly named command: Copy Link to Highlight. When you choose it, it puts a URL on your clipboard, not just to that page, as Copy Link Address would, but also...
by Terry McAdams | Apr 3, 2025 | iPad, iPhone, Mac, passwords, Tip, Wi-Fi
A neat feature built into iOS, iPadOS, and macOS is that when you are connected to a Wi-Fi network, your devices will offer to share the Wi-Fi password if others near you try to connect to the same network. However, for this feature to work, they must be in your...
by Terry McAdams | Apr 2, 2025 | HomePod, Tip
Although we think about HomePods as being useful for playing audio and responding to Siri commands for HomeKit devices, they can do more. HomePods can send a notification to your iPhone if their built-in microphones recognize the piercing squeals from smoke and carbon...
by Terry McAdams | Mar 31, 2025 | iPad, iPad Air, News, Tip
Apple has updated the iPad and iPad Air and introduced a new keyboard for the iPad Air. The primary change to the 11th-generation iPad ($349) is the move from the previous model’s A14 Bionic chip to the A16, which is nearly 30% faster but still won’t support Apple...
