Editors note: this post was originally published in August 2015 and was updated in April 2017 to reflect new reviews and experiences. Look no further if you’re living through the frustrating experience of operating a slow iMac computer— we’ve got you covered. Your...

If You’re Making the Switch iPhone to Android, You Need to Prepare Based on my interest in the Google Pixel and the excellent reviews of the new phone, I recently tried out the Google Pixel phone, with its Android system. What I found is that the switch from iPhone...

A Round-up of Reviews and Tips that WILL Speed Up Your Mac Is your 5+ year old Mac running slow? Are you hoping to get more life out of it because the budget does not have room for a new computer? I’ve been there. And by that I mean, I’m there. I’m running my...

Editors note: this post was originally published in July 2015 and was updated in March 2017 to reflect new reviews and experiences. Any Apple computer will start to slow down over time. The most powerful computers of yesterday sometimes can’t hold up in the modern world....

Editor’s note: this is an addendum to our wildly popular How to Fix and Prevent Mac’s Spinning Rainbow Wheel post. Make sure you’ve checked that one out first, then come back here for a laugh and more solutions!   When You Can’t Stop Seeing the...

Did you recently download macOS Sierra only to find your Mac is now crawling along? If macOS Sierra running slow is a problem for you we have 5 potential solutions. Clean, Clean, Clean We can’t emphasize this enough: you need to keep your Mac free of junk files. Although...

Editors note: this post was originally published in August 2015 and was updated in February 2017 to reflect new reviews and experiences. The whole point of having a MacBook Air is to have a snappy computer that boots and allows you to do your work on the go. A slow MacBook Air...

Utilize macOS Sierra’s Spotlight to Search Mac Quickly You know you have a file on your Mac, but you’ve searched high and low (figuratively speaking) and you can’t find said file. Now what? Or, you want to skip the searching shenanigans and find that file...

Cold iPhone battery? Protect your lithium ion battery for longer. I live in Chicago and we spend large swaths of the year wrapped in cold temperatures. As someone who regularly commutes to work meetings on foot I often find myself on my iPhone out in the freezing temps. Doing...

Editors note: this post was originally published in May 2015 and was updated in January 2017 to reflect new reviews and experiences. We now recommend purchasing MacPaw’s Clean My Mac 3 instead of MacKeeper. Mackeeper is a software suite from Kromtech that claims the ability...