Taking advantage of lower prices for flash storage, buying iPhones and iPads with more space to put your stuff has become cheaper. So it costs $100 extra to increase capacity from 16GB to 64GB, and another $100 to go to 128GB. In passing, I eagerly await the time when Apple offers larger solid state drives […]

Shortly before starting this article, I went to the nearest Walgreens store to buy some batteries for my Apple Magic Mouse. When you get the low battery warning, you only have a short time to replace them. Now understand that Walgreens is seldom the cheapest place to buy anything unless it’s on sale, or you […]

Some months back, a high-profile tech journalist and talk show host posted an overwrought spiel about the possibility of getting malware on a Mac. The few malware outbreaks over the years, such as Flashback, a Java exploit, were cited, and a certain unnamed Mac security app was recommended to protect you from possible misery. Now the […]

Although my experiences with OS X Yosemite have largely been favorable, it does seem that some people are reporting Wi-Fi connection issues. So their Macs aren’t able to sustain the Wi-Fi hookup for more than short time before it has to be reestablished. It appears there are some home-brewed workarounds, some of which involve dumping […]