Backblaze is a great cloud backup service for both Mac and PC and is available for just $25 through StackSocial for a year's subscription, a saving of 50%.
It's completely unlimited with no storage or bandwidth restrictions. As a regular user of the service, I cannot recommend it highly enough.
If you're yet to decide on an offsite backup solution, Backblaze should be at the top of your list.
Using multiple backup destinations allows you to use one as your default Time Machine backup disk and others on a less frequent basis. It's a feature that can offers redundancy in the unlikely event something were to happen to both your Mac and its main backup destination.
For example, you could use both a Time Capsule and an external hard drive simultaneously, keeping the hard drive at the office and bringing it home once a week to update. That way, if something were to happen to both your Mac and Time Capsule, you'd still have some form of backup to restore from.
Read MoreWith the recent news of some Australian iCloud users being held to ransom after having their devices locked by a hacker gaining access to their iCloud account and using Find My iPhone, it's as good a time as any to enable two-step authentication on your Apple ID if you aren't already using it (though it isn't yet available in all countries).
This Apple support document explains how to enable the additional security precaution, what it involves and how it offers an additional level of security when it comes to managing your account.
The natural language input of Fantastical for Mac and iOS has made the creation of reminders as simple as entering “Remind me to pick up milk tomorrow at noon”. If you make use of multiple lists then you can also choose which one to add a reminder to by including its name along with an additional modifier.
Rather than doing this every time you want to add a reminder to a different, we can leverage the power of Fantastical’s URL scheme and Launch Center Pro and create some actions that will automatically add reminders into a list of our choosing, either selecting it from a list of options or dedicating an action to a specific one.
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Using letters, numbers and symbols within a passcode offers the highest level of security, but it can get rather tiresome if you’re having to keep switching between keyboard layouts.
There is, however, a middle ground that offers all the convenience of a 4-digit PIN but with the benefit of increased security.
Read MoreIf you're a Mac user wanting to know how to protect your Mac, my ebook Back Up Your Mac With Time Machine, it's now free on the iBooks Store for a limited time.
Backing Up Your Mac With Time Machine breaks down each feature of Time Machine, the built-in backup utility of Mac OS X, from setting it up with an external hard drive or Time Capsule to restoring files and even your Mac.
You’ll find easy to follow instructions and screenshots as well as over an hour of specially recorded screencasts and interactive elements to aid you even further.
For a limited time only, you can purchase my latest ebook The iOS Compendium, Volume 1 on the iBooks Store for only 99¢.
The iOS Compendium, Volume 1 is an interactive iBook containing over 40 of the best tips and tricks that iOS has to offer, each with specially recorded narrated screencasts for you to watch, totalling over an hour of video.
Whether you’re a first-time iPad owner or have been using an iPhone since it was first released, any iOS user will find this book indispensable.
For anyone without access to the iBookstore, the PDF edition is also on sale for the same price.
Back when FireWire was standard on the Mac, it supported a number of features that made it possible to directly connect Macs to one another and transfer data at high speeds: Target Disk Mode and IP over FireWire.
Although FireWire has all but disappeared, Thunderbolt can offer the same functionality for modern Macs with Thunderbolt Target Disk Mode andThunderbolt Networking.
Read MoreThe latest update for OS X Mavericks, 10.9.3, hides the /Users folder for some users. It's still unclear if this was intentional or a side-effect of the update, but Chris Breen over at Macworld explains how to revese the change and unhide the folder if you've been affected.
A fantastic collection of useful keyboard shortcuts, all fully explained and illustrated, that Matt uses on a daily basis. They are some real gems in here, such as navigating the Save As... dialog box and opening recent items.