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Your honor, a sidebar

If your Mac resembles an absent-minded judge’s office with files and folders strewn hither and thither, getting to the right spot to open or save a file may have become slow and clumsy. Sure, in an ideal world, you’d organize everything perfectly, but you’d...

Tip of the Day: 4 ways to Force-quit a frozen Mac app

Freezes, crashes, hangs… they happen, even with the best Mac apps. Here are four ways you can force-quit an app that’s not responding: Click the Apple menu and choose Force Quit (or press Command-Option-Escape), select the offending app, and click Force Quit....

Why you need a VPN

As a company, MacAtoZ tends to be studiously apolitical. We happily serve clients across the political spectrum because we believe pluralism is a large part of what makes America great. We don’t have to agree with someone’s  politics to serve him or her...

Apples’s Vintage and Obsolete Products

Macs have a long life-span—even a 10 year-old Mac can be secure and productive—but Apple doesn’t offer hardware support for Mac models beyond 7 years past their discontinuance date. That means if the sale of a particular Mac model ceased on January 1, 2010...

Apple updates iPad and iPhone product lines

Apple often adjusts its iPad and iPhone lineup in March, and this year’s changes make the selection more attractive and affordable while adding a new way to support the (RED) international charity. New iPad replaces iPad Air 2 The most significant of Apple’s...