Two-factor authentication is an extra layer of security for your Apple ID designed to ensure that you're the only person who can access your account, even if someone knows your password. Here are the steps to enable two-factor authentication on a...
With macOS Big Sur (and Catalina), you can use your Apple Watch to authenticate passwords or approve app installations when you double-tap on the Side button. This is especially handy on Macs (mid-2013 and later) that don't have Touch ID, which...
The great fear of tech implementation always harkens back to data mining and exposure. So, imagine my surprise when I saw that, on June 8th, Amazon began automatically enabling WiFi sharing on connected hardware. Through a unique wireless network called...
When multiple hard drives are leveraged together, the drives work in tandem – called a RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks). There are numerous different RAID types, and each RAID selection offers benefits and drawbacks. Picking the right RAID level depends on how...
The Beatles, Worms, Viruses, and Trojans. In 1987, when university professor Fred Cohen asked the USA's National Science Foundation for funding to research countermeasures for the (at that time) new phenomenon of so-called "computer viruses," he was rejected. He was...
The WWDC21 Keynote is over, and it’s time for us to take a closer look at the announcements that came out of the event. As expected, there were some total surprises among the announcements during the almost two-hour video event...
I have a question for you. “Do you know What a RAID is?" And if you have heard of RAID, do you know how it works?
WWDC 2021 Next week will be Apple's annual Worldwide Developer Conference, and that means it's time for the annual making of the wishlists and predictions. Apple is in the thick of its transition away from Intel processors to Apple Silicon....
Apple's 2021 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC21) is just around the corner. On Monday morning, June 7 at 10 AM PDT, the virtual keynote for the event livestreams around the world. The keynote is always worth watching. It's where we hear...
