Tear those epaulettes off one of your admin accounts in macOS. It knows what it did! And what’s that? It’s just too darned powerful. An account marked as an administrator can carry out …| Six Colors
The passkey was introduced with some excitement by Apple and varying degrees of hurrahs from Microsoft and Google a few years ago.1 This humble method of combining strong encryption, avoiding passw…| Six Colors
I recently wrote about duplicating iCloud Drive and iCloud Photos to a network-attached storage (NAS) system. This struck a nerve for folks who want to keep full-resolution backups of their Photos Library when they don’t have enough local storage. (That column was focused on not needing to keep your Mac powered up to handle these iCloud offline backups when the Mac was otherwise not in use.) Readers wrote in or replied via social media with strategies and workarounds, as well as suggesting ...| Six Colors
I released an audiobook a few weeks ago, the first time I had done so. This was the counterpart to the print and ebook editions of Six Centuries of Type & Printing, a work that explores the evolution of printing technology. I used Adobe Audition to record and edit, as well as insert markers that would be exported to serve as chapters. Steven Schapansky, a beloved member of The Incomparable team and excellent audio engineer, took on the audio clean-up and production for me. Audition lets you c...| Six Colors
Travelers used to find themselves at a loss for cheap mobile data when traveling outside of their home country or region, and often wound up paying dearly for it. You now have an enormous range of options, but it’s always better to make plans before you leave. I remember going to the United Kingdom in 2017, my first trip to Europe since 2000, and being armed with too little practical information. I knew that I should be able to drop into a Tesco or other store and find a cheap SIM plan that...| Six Colors
One of Apple’s key selling points for decades has been its warranty service. Yes, the company has had some notable points of irritability—some of which have led to apologies or consumer lawsuit settlements—but, by and large, you don’t have to fight or fight much less hard to get your devices repaired.1 When it comes to stuff you buy that works with Macs, iPhones, and iPads, the track record is a little murkier, partly because it’s not always clear what warranty service is available ...| Six Colors
