This week’s Do You Use It? poll asks how you could recover your data and get back to work in the event of a disaster ranging from a corrupted file to a house fire.

Brings Genmoji and Shortcuts improvements and fixes. ($74.99 new, free update, 32.4 MB, macOS 14+) ...

The latest installment in the story of how bootable Mac backups will eventually disappear started with a blog post by Shirt Pocket Software’s Dave Nanian. In it, he explained why SuperDuper could no ...

Adam Engst and Allison Sheridan delve into the latest online scams, offering practical tips to help you steer clear of these digital traps.

On the Shirt Pocket Watch blog, SuperDuper honcho Dave Nanian writes: macOS 15.2 was released a few days ago, with a surprise. A terrible, awful surprise. Apple broke the replicator. Towards the end ...

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At Rogue Ameoeba’s blog Under the Microscope, Paul Kafasis writes: During this time, Apple placed an emphasis on improving the security of MacOS, continually locking the operating system down further ...

Apple has released macOS 15.2 Sequoia, iOS 18.2, and iPadOS 18.2 with new and improved Apple Intelligence features, plus watchOS 11.2, visionOS 2.2, tvOS 18.2, and HomePod Software 18.2 with other ...

When it comes to digital tasks you perform regularly, small things matter. I’m pleased to report that a long-standing irritation in macOS has finally disappeared with macOS 15 Sequoia: the inability ...

As 2024 winds down, many readers will receive TidBITS membership renewal notices in email. If you’re among them, thanks in advance for renewing—we rely on your continued support! If you have trouble ...

In “Reflections on a Year with HomeKit” (17 December 2021), I wrote about using an electric heated mattress pad with a Meross Smart Wi-Fi Plug Mini smart outlet as part of our Good Night scene, which ...