Category: Apple
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Thankful for Things “Macful”
This month’s newsletter theme is things that we’re thankful for. Having just returned from Affinity’s CaseAware® Bootcamp, I’ve got a list of a list of five tools that I’m thankful I had at hand: Hopefully this article gives you some insight into what I find useful when traveling. And perhaps also some Christmas gift ideas.…
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Upgrade Season
As part of Apple’s September 9th media event, the company announced the release dates for iOS 9 and OS X 10.11 El Capitan. iOS was released on September 16th, and is a free upgrade for all supported iPhones and iPads. On September 30th, Apple released OS X 10.11, El Capitan. It too is a free…
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Making Mail Better
Elsewhere in this month’s newsletter, Jenn discusses how Outlook alone is insufficient as a practice management solution. This leads her to a discussion of PracticeMaster, an excellent Windows-based product. On the Mac side, as your probably familiar, our practice management options are mostly web-based – Clio( ActionStep, and Rocket Matter, being some of the best-known…
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Paperless Mac
As you may know, the favorite desktop scanner series at Affinity is the ScanSnap series from Fujitsu. This series of scanners is generally excellent. I have a predecessor of the ScanSnap iX500 on my desk at the office and at home. I recently setup a family member with the ScanSnap S1300i, which she thoroughly enjoys.…
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Traveling with Apple
Psychological studies show that vacation has tremendous health benefits. Broadly speaking, Americans are a vacation deprived people. Having entered the summer months, now is an excellent time to makeup your vacation deficit. Being firmly into vacation season, I think it’s a good opportunity to review a couple of travel tips for using your Apple products…
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Macs in a Windows World
One class of questions that I hear frequently from Mac users in firms is how they can be better, more capable citizens on their firm’s Windows networks and resources. This question is the topic of an upcoming webinar I am doing on June 16th at 1:00pm EDT; click here to register. I thought I’d give…
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Spring Cleaning Your Mac
Now that May, and warm weather for those of us in northern states, is upon us, our thoughts naturally turn towards rebirth. In addition to household spring cleaning – i.e., packing up the winter clothes, cleaning off the patio furniture, planting your flowerbeds and gardens – your technology would similarly benefit from a spring cleaning.…
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Mac Office Update for 2016
In the past, we Mac users were accustomed to getting short shrift from Microsoft. While iOS is changing that — if you haven’t looked at the breadth of MS apps for iOS, it’s really impressive – Office for Mac remains the runt of the litter. The last time we got a new release was 2010,…
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A Look at Outlook on iOS
January 29th marked an interesting and somewhat surprising day in iOS history. It was the first day that you could get all of the “core” components of Microsoft Office on your iOS device. For twenty years before the 29th, Microsoft Office was only available for Windows and Mac. With Outlook’s arrival, iOS and Android have…