Wyn Matthews

Protecting Your Mac from Malware

by Wyn Matthews on June 29, 2011

Understanding Malware threats to your Mac As a Mac user, one of the things you get to congratulate yourself about is choosing a computing world that is free from viruses. It’s true. In “the wild” there aren’t any Mac Viruses. But there is Mac Malware. The thing about Malware is that it can’t install itself. [...]

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Your Passwords are NOT Secure

by Wyn Matthews on June 28, 2011

Understanding password security and management Passwords are like keys to the physical buildings, cars or rooms that you use. Your house, car, vacation house, hotel room, safety deposit box, etc. In our physical world, we take it for granted that each of these keys are different. By these obvious standards, in our digital world, we [...]

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iPad Best Hits

by Wyn Matthews on March 27, 2010

I’ve been watching iPad comments and reviews from Pundit-Land with ongoing interest and some laughter. Here’s my hit on how the iPad will impact current Mac sales. I work with and talk to a lot of new Mac users. Many are in their 50’s and older. Many of these have come to computing as a [...]

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Need to change the "home" computer for your iPhone/iTouch?

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by Wyn Matthews on March 17, 2010

Here’s a horror story from the field, made un-horrible with a just few steps: You buy a new computer – and your iPhone is synched to the old one. Bummer. It can only belong to one iTunes library and iTunes now wants to erase your iPhone. Now what?  These simple steps will move your iPhone [...]

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10 Second Tip: Customize Your Toolbars

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by Wyn Matthews on March 11, 2010

When Apple releases a product, they have to set the interface in such a way that it’s “fits” a broad range of user ability and experience.  Once you own the product, it’s time to make it “yours” by customizing the way it looks and works. One cool place to do that is the Finder and [...]

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10-Second Tip: Backup your Boot Camp Partition

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by Wyn Matthews on January 14, 2010

Time machine is a breeze.  We’ve been a really big fan of Time Machine since before 10.5 Leopard was even available.  Backups used to be really difficult to manage, and restoring from a backup was a task that your average user simply could not do themselves.  With Time Machine, Apple has put more power and [...]

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