by Garret Cleversley | Aug 22, 2019 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, Article, ASMC, ASMC Archive, cable, iPad, iPhone, Lightning, Mac, maintenance, Restricted Content, Solution, USB-C
Apple’s prices for Lightning, USB-C, and Thunderbolt 3 cables often seem high—$19 for a USB-C to Lightning cable or $29 if you want a 2-meter version? Unfortunately, when it comes to cables, you often get what you pay for. Happily, other reputable hardware...
by Garret Cleversley | Aug 19, 2019 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, Article, ASMC, ASMC Archive, battery, Explainer, heat, iPhone, Mac, maintenance, Restricted Content, troubleshooting
When summer brings sunny days and rising temperatures, you may have ditched your business suit for shorts or skirts to stay comfortable, but your technological gear can’t do the same. And keeping your tech cool is about more than comfort—as temperatures rise,...
by Garret Cleversley | Jul 23, 2019 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, ASMC, ASMC Archive, iTunes, Mac, maintenance, Restricted Content, storage, Tip
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...
by Garret Cleversley | Jul 4, 2019 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, Article, ASMC, ASMC Archive, Explainer, Mac, maintenance, productivity, Restricted Content, security, troubleshooting
Potential clients sometimes ask why they should work with us instead of solving their own problems or hiring an employee to manage their IT infrastructure. It’s a fair question, and we’re happy to answer it in more detail if you want to chat. But here are a few of the...
by Garret Cleversley | Jul 3, 2019 | AirPods, Apple Pros, APros Archive, ASMC, ASMC Archive, battery, iOS, iPad, iPhone, Mac, maintenance, Restricted Content, Tip
Apple’s Batteries widget is a little known but highly useful tool for quickly assessing which of your small Apple devices is lowest on power—something you may wish to do when traveling with only one charging cable. To access it, switch to Today view on the iPhone,...
by Garret Cleversley | Jun 27, 2019 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, Article, ASMC, ASMC Archive, How-To, Mac, maintenance, Restricted Content, Storage Management
SSDs are great—they’re fast, durable, and reliable—but they’re also expensive, which results in many of us not having as much storage built into our Macs as we’d like. Particularly for those who watch videos in iTunes or take a lot of photos, it’s all too easy to run...
