Category: Software
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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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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…
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Productivity Improvements in iOS 8 and Yosemite
For the past several years, Apple has made its annual Mac OS X updates available as free or nearly free downloads from its Mac App Store. This year is no different and the version released earlier this month, 10.10 Yosemite, contains a boatload of enhancements for those who live in the Apple ecosystem. The primary…
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Act Now to Secure Your iOS Device
On Friday, February 21st, Apple released a seemingly innocuous update to their iOS operating system, update 7.0.6. You should be forgiven for not thinking much of this. Most 0.0.x updates fix minor bugs addressing specific user situations. For example, 7.0.5 was not even released to iOS users outside of China since the fixes and updates…
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Avoiding Some Scary Internet Problems
As Mac users, we’re accustomed to ignoring most of the scary IT stories that surface in the Windows’ world. Fundamental weaknesses like viruses, root kits, and even device driver conflicts are scarce to non-existent on the Mac. Thank god. But, that doesn’t mean that we’re immune to all computer-related hauntings. Let’s tackle a couple of…
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Fresh Apple Season is Upon Us
One of the best things about using Apple products is that, as a consumer-centric company, they understand the value of making a marketing splash heading into the Christmas season. At June’s Worldwide Developers Conference, we were teased we many new products for fall. Now it’s nearly time for those products to reach our hands. What’s…
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Tools for Making Mac Presentations Stand Out
We’ve all sat through deathly PowerPoint presentations. Several times I’ve sat in a darkened room thinking, “If he’s just going to read his slides, I could do that at home in my pajamas.” I expect that you’ve felt the same at times. The truth is that very few people use PowerPoint or Keynote as they…