All things Apple

Jerry Kidd

An open letter sent to tcook@apple.com on Easter Sunday 2020 while on lockdown.

Dear Mr Cook – I am writing to you as a long time Apple consumer (Since the iPhone 3 came out) and as a concerned US Citizen. I first got started with computers by purchasing a Timex Sinclair computer in the early 80s and taught myself the Basic Language. Later in early 1987 I purchased…

Jerry Kidd

Got a new iPad? Updated your old one? Read this to get the most out of it!

Christmas is a few days away as this is being written and I am thinking that you may be getting a new iPad as a gift!  It will come with the new iPadOS and of course it will have the latest hardware. Even if you don’t get a new iPad, the new iPadOS has a…

Jerry Kidd

Check out this must have iPhone app for real estate agents

Back in the old days of real estate, keeping a written phone log of our conversations with our clients, inspectors, appraisers, the other agents, title companies, etc was an important part of of our risk management process. Those of us who have been around for a while still do this with calls we make and…

Jerry Kidd

Over 500 Ways to Kill it in 2018

If you are reading this then it’s safe to say that the first four weeks of 2018 are in the books already! Only 48 more weeks to make something happen this year! For this week’s post I thought that I’d give you an easy way to mine the nuggets that this blog contains.  I am…

iOS 11 is coming, but first a word of caution

At Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference keynote on Monday, June 5th, Apple CEO Tim Cook and friends gave us a full overview of iOS 11. In case you are unsure what that means, iOS is the software that runs your iPhone.  It creates the user experience that you have when you turn your phone on and…

Jerry Kidd

Nifty way to move, edit or delete photos on your iPhone with your Mac!

The iPhone is one heck of a good camera. So good that it is way too easy to end up with a camera roll that contains hundreds if not thousands of pictures that we took trying to get that perfect picture! I have good intentions to get in there and delete the ones that I…

Jerry Kidd

Turn your phone into an intelligent dash cam!

If you drive as much as I do, you are going to appreciate the app that I am going to tell you about today.  And even if you don’t drive all that much, you’ll still find this FREE app to be of value! My round trip commute runs about 125 miles per day and has…

Jerry Kidd

Get a free copy of Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac!

Many Mac users today are former Microsoft Windows users, and as such probably “grew up” using Microsoft Office on their PCs.  When they made the switch to Macs, they understandably wanted to stay with the familiar Microsoft Office suite of tools, Word, Excel and Powerpoint. This was possible because Microsoft produced Office 2008 for Mac…

Jerry Kidd

Free app can make old iPhones feel like new!

Have you used up all the storage space on your iPhone or iPad?  If so, you may start to have all sorts of problems that can cause baffling behavior.  It’s hard to delete things from the phone unless you use iTunes , but it can be difficult to use and iTunes won’t do anything about…