After trying to redeem an Apple Gift Card, Apple developer and author Paris Buttfield-Addison was locked out of his Apple Account with no explanation. Despite extensive media coverage and contact from ...

A failed update left 1Password’s app package empty on multiple Macs, rendering it non-functional. The good news: reinstalling ...

After 30 frustrating minutes trying to fix a broken holiday playlist, Adam Engst finally found the culprit: a “Skip when ...

Happily, the case of Apple developer, author, and conference organizer Paris Buttfield-Addison being locked out of his Apple Account for attempting to redeem a tainted gift card has been resolved (see ...

With this final email issue, we’re signing off for 2025. I’ll keep watch for late-breaking news and chime in on TidBITS Talk through the week; after that, I invite you to step back with me and enjoy a ...

The holidays are here, so we’re taking a two-week break from email issues. Look for TidBITS next on 6 January 2025! But first, Adam Engst shares a holiday-themed tale of tech frustration: discovering ...

I know a lot of people hate iCal, but I’ve always been a fan. As a longtime Microsoft Outlook user, I appreciate iCal’s simplicity and clean display. It isn’t that Outlook does anything wrong – I ...

Since its introduction in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Apple’s Time Machine has become one of the Mac’s most essential features, providing transparent, fully automatic, full-machine backup to an external ...

At this moment, Nisus Writer is essentially Schrödinger’s word processor: it is simultaneously dead and alive, and there’s no way to know more than that right now. We do know that apps, like cats, don ...