Welcome to the Island Technologies Blog — your online source of our accumulated wit and wisdom, featuring hot news on the latest and greatest gear, pro tips and tricks of the trade, and advice on playing it safe in our increasingly complicated digital universe!

Happy New Gear!

2011 is winding down, Hanukkah is underway, and Christmas is right around the corner…but you can still ring in the new year with brand new Apple gear — all it takes is a call to Santa’s West Coast offices here … Continue »

Make Backups, Avoid Crack-Ups

You’re backing up all your data…right? If you’re not, you should be. These days, your critical documents, family photos and entertainment collection all live on your computer’s hard drive — a hard-working and reliable little device that nevertheless has (according … Continue »

Keeping an Eye on Your iPhone

Question: Do you have good coverage for your iPhone 4? No, not cellular coverage (this isn’t an AT&T joke)…we’re talking about physical and financial protection for the world’s favorite smartphone. Considering the cost to repair or replace an iPhone 4, … Continue »

Transitioning to Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac, the Easy Way

It’s been just about a year since Microsoft released Office for Mac 2011, and many of you have made the switch from previous versions. As is usually the case with a major software update, the latest release of Microsoft’s flagship … Continue »

Typing in the key of PC

If you’re like us, your go-to computer is a Mac, but sometimes you need to run Windows stuff on it. Apple’s Boot Camp (as well as Parallels Desktop 7 and VMWare Fusion 4) make it easy to run PC software … Continue »

Psst…Can You Keep a Secret?

Okay, let’s take a quick poll—everybody whose email password is password, please raise your hand… …if you raised your hand, please go directly to your computer and change your email password now (do not pass GO, do not collect $200, … Continue »

E-waste Lots, Want Not

We live digital lifestyles packed full of computers, smart phones, tablets and various other electricity-eating accessories—and our modern lives come with modern problems: It’s hard enough keeping up with the never-ending wave of new gadgets and gizmos…now we have to … Continue »

There’s a Bug in My Apple!

Newsflash: Macs are vulnerable to virus attacks—film at 11! Yes, you read that right—your shiny Apple could be hiding a worm. Now, this isn’t “new” news—about two years ago, we launched an email campaign recommending that our Mac-based clients should … Continue »