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Nobody likes to experience a kernel panic on their Mac. This is when your Mac restarts itself while you are working. After it finishes the restart process, you see a dialog telling you that your Mac shut down because of a problem. Worse yet, you may have lost all of your recent work as files are not saved during this type of...
Last June at the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), Apple made its usual announcements about upcoming changes to its operating systems -- iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS. Among the changes were some hotly-anticipated upgrades to Apple Maps, the company's homegrown...
Represented by the blue icon with the smiling face, the macOS Finder is the home base for your Mac. You use it to organize and access almost everything on your Mac, including documents, images, movies, and any other files you...
With many people across the world sheltering in place, we have come to rely on our content creators to fill in that void where we would normally be socializing with our families and friends, whether it’s full-length feature films or...
In macOS, there’s a default printer by, well, default. It’s the one selected when the Print dialog opens. However, it’s easy to change the default printer — or change a printer’s name. Change Your Default Printer: Choose "Apple menu > System Preferences,"...
Hang around a group of Mac power users long enough, and eventually, you’ll hear the term eGPU. As you can probably surmise from this article’s headline, eGPU is an acronym for “external Graphics Processing Unit.” The acronym is pronounced “eee-gee-pee-you,” not “egg-poo.” It describes an external chassis that is connected to a laptop computer via a high-bandwidth connection cable and provides more graphics processing power than is available from the laptop’s internal graphics processing unit (GPU). Let’s get into some more detail!
