Configuring Apple Notifications

Apple Notifications

This weekend, my mother complained that her Mail app’s Apple notifications were popping up over the movie she was watching.  “How do you disable that?” she asked me.  So, I went looking in the System Preferences to discover what controls were available to suppress notifications.  I found changing these settings was easy, and that you […]

Encrypting External and Flash Drives in OSX

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I got a call from one of my friends who was all excited because they had purchased a new Apple MacBook. And, they asked me to recommend an encrypted thumb drive (aka flash drive) that would be compatible with their laptop. Well, I explained there are thumb drives with hardware encryption, but for most of […]

Where did my Scroll Bars Go?

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I recently upgraded to the latest version of Apple OS X. Mostly, the experience was positive, but one gotcha was that my scroll bars disappeared. I realize that the scrolling functionality remained, you could still use the multi-touch trackpad to control window scrolling. But, I liked the visual clues given by the scroll bars. For […]