Computer Clean Up And Maintenance

Computer Clean Up And Maintenance

This guide aims to help keep your PC running optimal and perhaps solve some issues that have recently surfaced. I’ve done maintenance on many systems and have a developed a procedure to effectively clean up, maintain, detect and remove detected threats....
What is HEIC?

What is HEIC?

It’s October 30, 2018, 8:07pm… someone emails me a photo in a format I’ve never seen before and I can’t open them. It’s called HEIC which is a new extension for the High Efficiency Image Format. Even though Apple announced with the...
Application folders in iCloud Drive not showing

Application folders in iCloud Drive not showing

Before you go nuclear in trying to figure out why some of your application folders in iCloud Drive went missing… a simple thing that worked for me, restart your computer.  More complex solutions in case a restart didn’t work which may help are suggested...
Creating Groups in Apple’s Contacts

Creating Groups in Apple’s Contacts

So you’re now using Apple’s built-in Contacts which is Apple’s version of an Address Book. Congratulations. It pretty much does the same thing, stores and manages your contacts for you on your Mac and iOS devices which can be synced via iCloud. Those...
Beware of Extortion Scams

Beware of Extortion Scams

Not too long ago, a friend of mine was presented with an email from some_random_name@outlook.com stating that they have a video of my friend on adult sites. They even claimed to have my friend’s password which turned out to be true. How the scammers got the...