Just because you have a good plan in place to backup all of your data doesn’t mean you can just stop there. Spinning hard drives will eventually die. And even before they completely die they can start exhibiting strange behaviors and throwing errors during operations. My point is this…if you…

This past week I took my family on our very first cruise. It was a 7-day Western Caribbean cruise (I decided not to mess around and went for a nice long cruise on one of the largest cruise ships…The Oasis of the Seas). Having lived in Florida for just over…

One of my friends recently got her first Apple Watch and was asking me for tips or recommendations for apps. As I was going back and forth with her via iMessage I realized that these tips would be useful for a lot of other people as well. Heck, it would…

My son’s iPhone was stolen this week at school. This was the first time I had to personally deal with an iOS device theft and there are a few really important things to consider in those first few minutes and hours after the device is stolen. …

I am way over due in writing this post, as I promised to do so back in my January 2016 article “Saying Goodbye to Circus Ponies Notebook.” The Circus Ponies App for Mac and iOS is no more…quoting the developer that “Circus Ponies has gone to that great Alphabet company…

I know this post is a bit of a departure from what I normally write about. I read a lot of news, granted it is mostly tech and space related news, but I read a lot of news none the less. …

My handwriting is absolute chicken scratch. So when computers, email, smart phones and tablets entered the scene I jumped on board with typing as my main writing medium and never looked back. But when I started doing more creative writing and needed to start planning out creative work I started…

I woke up this past Sunday morning and put my Apple Watch on its charger, just like I normally do every morning (I wear my Apple Watch to bed, mostly for VIP calls, not sleep monitoring). But when I finished my coffee and was ready to go out for my…