 Recently, I have been importing some old family movies from the 90's and early 00's, which were stored on CDs, onto my current computer. I wanted to be able to share them with my kids via OneDrive, so they could download their own copies of the movies.
Last week, we had a family birthday gathering and I wanted to queue up some of these videos to play on the TV - i.e. create a 'playlist' of the movies that were stored on my computers hard drive. Here's how I did this.
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6/3/2025 0 Comments More news on changes to Microsoft 365 Subscriptions - discontinuation of one of its apps In a separate article, the increase in Microsoft 365 subscriptions is discussed - including how to 'downgrade' your subscription to avoid the price hike.
Immediately after finishing writing that article, I received an email from Microsoft advising me that my Microsoft 365 subscription would, from next year, no longer include an app that many people have used for years. As shown in the above image, the email advises that, from 1/10/26, Microsoft Publisher will no longer be part of Microsoft 365. This is because Microsoft Publisher is being officially discontinued by Microsoft, and will be no longer supported from that date. It has reached the end of its life. So what can you use once Publisher has been discontinued?  When we recently travelled with friends, one of the challenges was keeping track of all the expenses and 'who owes who what'!
Our strategy for shared costs while we travelled was to load up a Travel Card with the required overseas currenCY, each couple contributing an agreed amount in the leadup to the trip. Then, when there were group outings, tours and dinners, we used that Travel Card to pay. It worked quite well, but there was also lots of transferring of money between different group members to cover tours and accommodation purchased on behalf of the group before the trip. And there was also the need for a tally of where members of the group had paid for shared food/drink with their own credit card - so that we could 'balance the books' at the end. I recently heard of an App that sounds like it would have been so fantastic for managing the trip finances for our group - and that I look forward to trying out in future.  In the past few months, those of us with Microsoft 365 subscriptions (for Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Onedrive etc.) were told our subscription cost would increase by a huge $40 per year - from $139/year to $179/year for a Family subscription, and $109/year to $159/year for a Personal subscription.
Microsoft justified this massive increase as necessary to provide us with AI capabilities that we never asked for. Most people I deal with who have Microsoft 365 subscriptions for personal their use have little or no interest in the AI capabilities delivered by Microsoft's Copilot, and certainly don't want to pay this extra cost for this in their subscription. Here's how to avoid this increase.  I have had several iTandCoffee clients, family and friends contact me since Sunday morning, asking about a message that popped up on their devices in the past 2 days - a message like that shown in the image above.
My husband and I also got that message first thing on Sunday morning on our Apple mobile devices. I ignored it at the time, as I was busy - but then received the message again on Monday when I started work. I could not receive my business emails until I re-provided sign-in details and re-authenticated. Is this message a scam, or is it a legitimate sign-in request. Why is it appearing? And what should you do if you receive it?  I recently noticed that, when I added a new contact on my iPhone or iPad, it did not seem to come through to my Contacts on the Mac.
This meant that (among other things) Messages did not show the name of the person on the Mac (even though it did on the iPhone and iPad), and the email address of the person wouldn't auto-fill in Mail. So, so frustrating. I tried everything to resolve this issue - turning off syncing of the account in syncing, completely removing the account from Contacts, changing the frequency of syncing, and more - all to no avail. Here's what finally fixed the problem for me. 22/2/2025 0 Comments A great new AI feature of Photos app that helps unearth treasured photos in your Photos library I have to confess that I do have a very large Photos library. So when it comes to finding specific photos in that library, it can be a challenge to locate them.
A new AI feature in the Photos app can really help with this. 8/2/2025 0 Comments How can I export the passwords saved in my Chrome app and import to Apple's Passwords? This question came up during an appointment this week.
A client had multiple Chrome profiles, and each profile stored a different set of passwords - so the passwords were only auto-filled when she was using the applicable profile, not when she was in other profiles. She wanted to combine all of her passwords into the Apple passwords app and remove them from her Chrome profiles. Going forward, she will have her iCloud account storing all her passwords and autofilling in Chrome from there. Here's how she can achieve that.  The Find My app on the iPhone, iPad and Mac allows you to see the location of any of your own Apple devices, and any Apple devices that belongs to a person who has shared their location with you (as long as each device has turned on Find My in Settings).
The sharing of your location with others is enabled via Settings -> Privacy & Security -> Location Services -> Share My Location. From this area, sharing with members of your Apple Family members can be set up. You can also share your location with any Contact - for a short period or ongoing. For those who share their location with you, you can offer assistance if they lose their device using the Find My app. The location of their device will appear in that app. But what if a friend or family member loses, say, their iPhone and has not shared their location with you? How can you assist them in finding their device?  Just recently, I was looking at Google Maps and its Street View of a particular address. It is an address where there has been construction occurring for the past several years, and I was wanting to get an idea of how long ago it had started. I wondered if Street view would give any hint of this.
I noticed a great feature for the first time, and thought I'd share it for anyone else who might find it useful. |
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