by Terry McAdams | Jul 20, 2020 | Mac, privacy, Tip
We’ve all had it happen. “Can I use your Mac for a minute to check my email?” The answer can be “Yes,” but to keep people from poking around on your Mac, have your visitor log in as Guest. To enable the Guest account, go to System Preferences > Users & Groups....
by Terry McAdams | Jun 10, 2020 | iPhone, privacy
Late last year, The New York Times published a bombshell article revealing just how completely our every movement is tracked by companies in the business of selling our locations to advertisers, marketers, and others. Anonymous sources provided the Times with a...
by Terry McAdams | Jun 9, 2020 | iPhone, privacy
Apple recently released iOS 13.5, incorporating a new Exposure Notification API in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic. While some people may have concerns about that, we’re here to allay those fears. At best, the Exposure Notification API could lower...
by Terry McAdams | May 7, 2020 | iOS, privacy, Tip
Sharing your location works well when you’re out with friends or family and want everyone to be able to see where everyone else is. It’s easy to enable in various spots in iOS 13—in Messages, in Contacts, in the Find My app, and so on. You can share your location for...
by Lucy McAdams | Oct 29, 2018 | privacy, Siri, Touch ID
There’s an Internet saying: “If you’re not the customer, you’re the product.” The point is that, if you’re getting a service for free, the company providing it sees you not as a customer, but as a product to sell, generally to advertisers. This is how Google,...
by Lucy McAdams | Apr 18, 2018 | Battery, Health, Messages, privacy, Safari, troubleshooting
At the end of March, Apple released updates to all four of its operating systems, but iOS 11.3 was the most notable. It boasts a variety of new features and other changes—you can think of it as the midpoint update between iOS 11’s first release and iOS 12, probably...
