New Google App May Help Thwart Malware On Android Devices
As good as Google is about reviewing the apps that find their way into the halls of the Google Play Store, malicious code still manages to find its way inside. Granted, not ...
MP3 To Lose License – What Does That Mean For Music?
If you’re a music fan, you’ve probably got several hundred (or more) MP3 files on your computer. It burst onto the scene while the internet was still in its formative stages and ...
3 Ways to Protect Your Online Accounts Against Hacking
Mid-Atlantic Computer Solutions Online security is a big deal, but few people take an active approach to minimizing their risks online. In 2016, millions of user accounts were hacked and instances of identity theft have increased. ...
3 Ways to Help Identify an Email Phishing Attempt
Since most of us check emails on a daily basis, it is highly likely that we’ll be presented with an email phishing attempt. A phishing email typically looks like a legitimate email from a company, bank, ...
How to Find Buried Options in the iOS Settings App
iOS offers about 40 top-level categories in its Settings app and countless options in those categories. How can you find a little-used setting, particularly since Apple sometimes moves options during major iOS releases? The answer is the Settings app’s hidden ...
Want to Strip Styles when Pasting Text on the Mac?
When you copy text from a Web page, PDF, or word processing document, macOS usually includes the associated formatting, so the words you paste may end up in 37-point red underline if that was what the source text looked like. ...
Use This Site to Troubleshoot Netflix Streaming Problems
Whether you watch Netflix on your iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple TV, the quality of the video—and whether it stutters or skips—is determined by the bandwidth of your Internet connection. Netflix recommends 25 megabits per second (Mbps) of download speed ...
Dial Phone Calls Directly from iOS Calendar Events
Imagine that you’re adding a calendar event for a meeting with a contractor, and you want to make it easy to call them if you are running late. Or perhaps you want to embed conference call details into an event. ...
Goldilocks and the Three PDF Apps: Which Is Right for You?
PDFs are everywhere these days. Scanners generally create documents in PDF, ebooks are often distributed in PDF, and government agencies make their paper forms available as interactive PDFs. So it’s essential to have an app on your Mac that can work ...
So What Is a Retina Display, Anyway?
You’ve seen the term in Mac names—iMac with 5K Retina display, MacBook Pro with Retina display, and so on. But what is a Retina display, and why should you care? The short answer is Retina displays are high-resolution screens on ...
