If you’ve been in the market for a new Mac in the past couple years, you may have noticed one particular word being used seemingly out of context: Retina. A word normally reserved for the optometrist’s office is now being used to describe a particular type of display on Apple’s computers. So what exactly is…
Hello and welcome to another insightful installment of Terminology Tuesday! Where we define some commonly misunderstood or misused computer terms! Today’s term is application! Applications, sometimes referred to as apps, are a set of specific programs that are designed to perform a certain task. These come in a quite a few different categories. Some of the…
Picture this scene: The house is full of family on a snowy Christmas Eve. Everyone is jubilant in expectation of the next day’s events. The Christmas day dawns and all is well. Your family is eager and lively to begin the celebration. Presents are unwrapped, coffee is drank, and a delicious lunch is eaten. Then,…
If you’re anything like me, shopping for Christmas presents for your friends and family is something that you don’t think about until the week before your celebration. Then the chaos of trying to find the right gifts for everyone on your list ensues, causing panic, frustration, and headaches. What an awful situation to be in!…
After the release of iOS 9, there have been quite a few people having the issue of their iPod, iPhone, or iPad being disabled. The primary cause of this issue is a lost or forgotten passcode. If you enter the passcode wrong six times in a row, you’ll be locked out and the device display a…
Over the weekend Apple announced a quality program on all Macbook and Macbook Pro with Retina Display models. The program addresses issues of the display’s reflective coating wearing off and pealing away from the screen. Apple will replace affected screens free of charge within three years of the purchase date or one year after October…
Welcome to another installment of Terminology Tuesday! Where we define some commonly misused and misunderstood computer terms! Today’s term is Hard Drive. Hard drives (HD) are used to store and retrieve all manners of digital data. This includes Word documents and pictures, spreadsheets and movies, music and everything in between. When we talk about storage…
El Capitan, Apple’s latest and great operating system, was released to the public yesterday. But before you begin scribbling in the Notes app, dividing your screen with Split View, and ooh and aww at the new San Francisco font, you’re going to want to backup your computer with Time Machine. Last year when Apple’s previous…
Welcome to Terminology Tuesday! Where we explain some commonly misused or misunderstood terms and phrases! This week’s term is Operating System (sometimes referred to as OS). Operating systems (OS) are installed in nearly every consumer computer today. They’re needed to run other programs and applications that we’re familiar with. OS perform the most basic tasks…
As always, Apple’s early-Fall announcement has captured the attention of the consumer electronics market. It’s exciting to learn about the new products that Apple will be rolling out this holiday season. Here are just a few of the things that you can be excited about as we enter into the colder months: iPad Pro This…
