Category: 1055: Your Personal Hotspot, Are You Ready For APFS

I hear tell that Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom is in full foliage so I might have to take a spin up to see the colors. It is a beautiful time in Vermont and if you can avoid the hundreds of migrant leaf-peepers the scenery is simply breathtaking with the thousands of shades of red, green, brown…

A major change in the MacOS 10.13 High Sierra is the switch to Apple’s new Apple File system, or APFS. This was covered pretty heavily in the announcements earlier this year but many of us might have let it slip our minds. With any luck, you’ll barely notice the change, just as almost no one…

Finding good Internet access for your Mac or Wi-Fi-only iPad while traveling can be maddening. Look in your Wi-Fi menu while sitting in an airport and you’ll see a bunch of networks, most of which require a password, are someone’s printer or won’t connect for other reasons. It isn’t any better when you reach your…

Dear Friends, After several days in the 80’s we are heading for the 30s tonight. The apples are ready to be picked and after years of trying to coax apples on my trees, they are loaded this year. Speaking of apples, we harvested a big batch of discontinued and “bad box” Macs, iPads, and accessories.…