Great Idea! Free up space on your Mac’s backup drive Even though Time Machine automatically deletes your oldest backups as new ones are created, eventually your backup may be too large for the backup disk. At this time, you need to manually delete some of your older Time Machine restore points. You can do this […]

Great Idea! Improve Battery Life on your iPad 1. Lower screen brightness – Settings – Display & Brightness 2. Turn off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth when they are not needed – Settings or Control Center 3. Turn off AirDrop – Control Center 4. Limit Background App Refresh – Settings – General – Background App Refresh 5. […]

Great Idea! iOS 10.3 New Features I initially noticed very little difference after updating my iPhone 6 to iOS 10.3. Here are some nice new features that you might find helpful. iCloud storage – Amazing how many times I am questioned on why and how someone is using so much of their free cloud storage. […]

Great Idea! Unsubscribe from Multiple Email Lists – All at one time! Is this a dream come true?  Can you really unsubscribe from many of those newsletters you signed up for all at once?  (Not this one though, right?)  Unroll.me is one free service that will complete a scan based on your email address and show […]

Great Idea! Password Dos DO – Use a password manager – LastPass, Dashlane, KeePass – These allow users to generate complex passwords, manage them across all of your devices, and then use autofill on forms. Click here to read reviews on these managers. DO – Stop using easy passwords like “password”, “123456”, or the likes.  Try to […]

Great Idea! Turn off Chrome notifications Google Chrome is definitely my browser of choice.  But it gets tiresome always having to answer questions like “Do you want to allow…. to know your location?”  All of these can be turned off.  Here’s how: Click on the menu icon (3 vertical dots) in the upper right hand […]

Great Idea! Alexa in the Kitchen! For those of you who found an Amazon Echo or Dot under the tree, here are a couple of very useful ways to use Alexa (the voice assistant) in the kitchen – hands free, of course! 1.  Out of the box, Alexa can help you maintain lists for shopping […]

Great Idea! Android smart settings Turn on Smart Lock.   Once activated (just tap Settings > Security > Smart Lock to get started), you can set Smart Lock to unlock your phone whenever you’re at home, when it scans your face with its camera, when it hears your voice, or whenever it’s near your Bluetooth […]

Great Idea! Keyboard Shortcuts to Send Emojis Faster Instead of opening the menu and selecting an emoji to send, you can do it much faster using keyboard shortcuts.  Here’s how, for both iOS and Android users: iOS – Emojis can be assigned text labels that can be added quickly to any conversation. Settings – General […]

Great Information! What the heck is a hashtag and how do I use it? Ok, admit that you see them all over the place but you thought it was called a “pound sign”!  New name when used with social media, “Hashtag” #.  They are important to the way we communicate online, and it is a […]