Dana Stibolt has long been an environmentalist, from picking up trash on Martha’s Vineyard in the ’70s to starting an aluminum and glass recycling program for his neighborhood in the early ’90s before local curbside recycling was the standard. Dana is still picking up trash and recycling on his e-bike ride or walk to work. […]
Category Archives: Macintosh Consulting
Apple, Apple Authorized Government Reseller, Apple Authorized Premium Service Provider, Apple Authorized Sales, Apple Authorized Service, Apple Data Recovery, Better Mac Computing, Data Recovery, iBooks, iMacs, Mac Medics, Mac Pros, Mac Repair, MacBook Air, MacBook Pros, MacBooks, Macintosh Consulting, Macintosh Service, MacMedics, MacMedics Government, Severna Park, Software Updates, Warnings
Apple released macOS 14 Sonoma today. Watch out for the top three pitfalls!
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Sep
Sep
Apple released macOS 14 Sonoma today, and as is our custom, we’re warning you to upgrade with care. Everyone is always excited to be running the best Mac OS possible, but there can be pitfalls, especially if you’re installing Sonoma as soon as it’s released. It’s not a bad idea to wait a few days, […]
Announcements, Apple, Apple Authorized Premium Service Provider, Apple Authorized Sales, Apple Authorized Service, iPhone, Macintosh Consulting, Macintosh Service, MacMedics, Warnings
You want AppleCare+, and you want to buy it from Apple!
11
Sep
Sep
You want AppleCare+, and you want to buy it from Apple! There are many places to buy a new iPhone, and ALL of them push their own iPhone insurance or some hybrid product, including AppleCare+. Do yourself a favor and buy your AppleCare from MacMedics, or you can buy it right on your new iPhone […]
Announcements, Apple, Apple Authorized Government Reseller, Apple Authorized Premium Service Provider, Apple Authorized Sales, Apple Authorized Service, Apple Data Recovery, Better Mac Computing, Data Recovery, Mac Medics, Macintosh Consulting, Macintosh Service, MacMedics, MacMedics Government, Severna Park, Warnings
My own mother lost access to her Facebook account(s) because she had never set up Two Factor Authentication.
10
Aug
Aug
My own mother lost access to her Facebook account(s) because she had never set up Two Factor Authentication. And yes, I checked! She WAS using a unique password only for Facebook, which was a suitable number of letters and numbers. She uses Facebook to support the books she has written about gardening. She had quite […]
Apple, Apple Authorized Government Reseller, Apple Authorized Premium Service Provider, Apple Authorized Sales, Apple Authorized Service, Better Mac Computing, Mac Medics, Mac Repair, MacBook Air, MacBook Pros, MacBooks, Macintosh Consulting, Macintosh Service, MacMedics, Severna Park, Warnings
Thanks for saving my laptop! MacMedics is the BEST!
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Jul
Jul
“I was unfamiliar with MacMedics until today, and I cannot possibly articulate how happy I am with my experience! I was greeted with a smile and an eagerness to help me the minute I walked in the door. I admit I was reluctant to make the appointment since I always go to the Apple Store […]
Apple, Apple Authorized Service, Apple Data Recovery, Better Mac Computing, Data Recovery, Mac Medics, Mac Repair, Macintosh Consulting, Macintosh Service, MacMedics
Zip Disk from 1998 with no Zip Drive? No Problem MacMedics has you covered!
02
Jul
Jul
Zip Disk from 1998 with no Zip Drive? No Problem MacMedics has you covered! This was a fun little data recovery project! I helped a long-time MacMedics client (an architect from Baltimore) rescue the data from a 1998 Zip Disk. It was simple, but delivering this crucial data to my customer at a very low […]
Announcements, Better Mac Computing, iPhone, Mac Medics, Macintosh Consulting, Macintosh Service, MacMedics, Phishing, Severna Park, Warnings
Let’s talk about two-factor authentication.
02
Jul
Jul
Let’s talk about two-factor authentication. I’ve posted about this before, but my own mother, who put eleven years of hard work into her Facebook page to support the books she has authored, and her business Facebook page got hacked a few days ago. She did not have two-factor authentication turned on. The sad thing here […]
Apple, Apple Authorized Premium Service Provider, Apple Authorized Sales, Apple Authorized Service, Apple Data Recovery, Better Mac Computing, Data Recovery, Mac Medics, Mac Repair, Macintosh Consulting, Macintosh Service, MacMedics, PowerMacs, Severna Park
I recently helped a MacMedics customer recover 33-year-old data from an 80MB SCSI hard drive.
08
Jun
Jun
I recently helped a MacMedics customer recover 33-year-old data from an 80MB (That’s Megabyte!) 2.5-inch SCSI hard drive. The BIOS of the SCSI drive was so old that my usual method did not work. Instead, I used a 1990 Mac to read the customer’s SCSI drive, which I mounted externally. The rescue computer had a […]
Apple, Apple Authorized Government Reseller, Apple Authorized Premium Service Provider, Apple Authorized Sales, Apple Authorized Service, Better Mac Computing, Mac Medics, Mac Pros, Mac Repair, MacBook Pros, Macintosh Consulting, Macintosh Service, MacMedics
Google 5-Star Review: They are a pleasure to do business with, and always reassuring to know they are so consistently effective.
09
May
May
“I had been having trouble with Safari loading URLs extremely slowly and could not figure it out. I walked in, and Dana went to work on it. He teamed up with Doug (I think), and the two of them solved it pretty quickly. No charge. To fix something I had not been able to solve […]
Apple, Apple Authorized Government Reseller, Apple Authorized Sales, Apple Authorized Service, Apple Data Recovery, Better Mac Computing, Data Recovery, iMacs, Mac Medics, Mac Repair, Macintosh Consulting, Macintosh Service, MacMedics, Severna Park
Congratulations to our long-time customer Bill on his new 24” M1 iMac!
08
May
May
Congratulations to our long-time customer Bill on his new 24” M1 iMac! He’s been shopping local with us since 2011! He bought this 2011 21.5 iMac from MacMedics. The old iMac still worked, so we backed it up with Time Machine for him and migrated the data to his new iMac, which will inherit the […]