Author: Emily Dolloff
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What’s the Difference between Removing and Deleting an App?
There are many reasons you might want to get rid of apps from your iPhone or iPad. To begin, touch and hold on a blank spot on a Home Screen to enter “jiggle mode.” Then tap the ⊝ icon for any app to see the question about whether to delete the app entirely or merely…
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Apple and Privacy
Apple has made your privacy both one their areas of concentration and a marketing campaign. They have developed a well-deserved reputation for protecting your data and personal information. I want to go over just a few of the ways that Apple protects you. Apple and Small Dog Electronics believe that privacy is a fundamental human…
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August View First Impressions
This past weekend I installed a new smart home device, the August View. During my travels last month for various events and vendor fairs, I visited with one of our reps from August Lock and learned about this new product that was just released in the last 30 days. As soon as I saw this…
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Recover Drive Space by Deleting Old iOS Backups
If you’ve been good about backing up your iOS devices to iTunes on your Mac or to iCloud, give yourself a gold star! Both backup destinations are fine, but there’s one potential downside to iTunes backups: they can consume a lot of space on your Mac’s drive. In iTunes, go to iTunes> Preferences > Devices,…
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Get Stacked
There are two people in this world, those who keep their desktops organized and those who do not. Over the years I’ve learned these two kinds of users are about a 50/50 split and some do fall somewhere in between. By default, sending files directly to your desktop is often an easier option to grab…