macOS Tips

Whether you’re taking PDF’s down to the local copy shop to print, or creating a quick playlist of music files to play in your car on your next road trip. No one would argue with the usefulness of USB drives. They are super useful for quickly and easily sharing and moving files between devices. But as most of us know, this can lead to the annoying appearance of junk files when using our drives between devices running different operating systems. Clearing these hidden files can at times spare youo from frustration and give you peace of mind that your’e only sharing what you intend to be sharing.

As of May 2023, roughly 94% of all traffic through Google’s servers is now encrypted. That’s a great win for internet privacy, unfortunately your browsing history can still be compromised via your DNS requests.

~94% of internet traffic is now encrypted!

What is DNS?

DNS is an acronym for Domain Name System. In the simplest terms, it is like a contact list for website domains.

What are scripts?

Scripts are most commonly small JavaScript files used to provide enhanced interactivity to websites. For example displaying a modal window when hovering your mouse over a particular element on a page, or changing the contents on a page without a full reload on a button click.

Here’s a perhaps controversial answer… probably not. Unless you are using a mix of Apple and non-Apple devices or have specific needs; like perhaps password sharing between family members. You can most likely use the the native functionality built into macOS.

Building an email list can be time consuming.

Imagine the following scenario: You have a time critical deadline looming, and you need to quickly send out an important email to a bunch of people.

Also imagine perhaps, that IT has sent you raw SQL database file. Or your boss has sent over an Excel file full of contact address’s. Or maybe you’d just like to send an email to a particular group from your Contacts app. Or maybe you need to grab a contact address from a website. Should be easy right….