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Performing a Factory Reset on Your M1 Mac to Regain Access to Your SoftRAID Volumes

UPDATE: April 28, 2021With the release of macOS 11.3 yesterday, Apple has now fixed the bug that prevented the SoftRAID driver from loading on M1 Macs. After updating to this new macOS release, the SoftRAID version 6 driver will load correctly, and you will be able to access your SoftRAID volumes. Last week we alerted you to a critical issue...

female hand picking up an OWC thunderbolt cable

How Can I Tell if a Cable Is USB-C or Thunderbolt?

So, you're walking down the street and step what appears to be some sort of cable. You pick it up and notice the familiar oval-shaped connector on both ends. "Sweet!" you think to yourself, "the Cable Fairy has blessed me with a perfectly good Thunderbolt cable! Oh wait, maybe it's USB-C... How the heck can I tell the difference?! Oh, the humanity!!!" Your day has now been ruined.

Creating Virtual Performances – Working With Audio

In my previous post, Making Music During a Pandemic, I shared how the students I teach at Cudahy Middle School in Cudahy, WI, use technology to hold virtual performances. Today I want to talk about workflow. More specifically, our audio...

Top Thunderbolt Questions

Top 14 Questions People Ask About Thunderbolt Answered

Admittedly, this Thunderbolt article has an odd title. But it's not random... Keith Shively and I meet every-other Friday to discuss how the blog is doing. We go over more statistics than you can imagine – what the traffic patterns...

How to Use the Privacy Report in Safari 14

Apple beefed up its privacy features in Safari 14. Among them, the Safari web browser gets a Privacy Report feature that expands on the company’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention functionality and is available in macOS Mojave, Catalina, and Big Sur.  Some...

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