One question that new Mac users often ask is whether they should shut down their computers at the end of the day or just let them sleep. The quick answer is that sleep is better for your Mac, and in...
Big Sur marked Apple’s move to macOS 11 from the venerable macOS 10 (or OS X as it was known for many years). It’s a huge move, a big redesign, and a paradigm shift that is accompanied by Apple using...
Today is March 31, the day we use to advise readers to back up their devices regularly and not be "April fools". This day has a name: World Backup Day. The goal? Reminding everyone to back up their data. If...
If like me, you have various Apple devices, you like to have your data synced (updated and transferred) between them. If you use iCloud, much of this is done behind the scenes. However, about once a month, I manually sync...
March 24, 2001, was a banner day for Mac users. On that day, twenty years ago, Apple introduced the next generation of the Mac operating system – Mac OS X 10.0 "Cheetah." The introduction was no small matter, as it...
This poor MacBook Air is experiencing the "white screen of death" From time to time, you may experience one of the more frustrating Mac glitches – a white screen during boot. Usually, this rare bug happens after updating macOS to...
Recently, Dennis Sellers published a great article on How to Start Your M1 Mac in Safe Mode. Safe Mode is just one of many Mac startup modes. In this post I'll list those modes for the M1 Macs, what they're...
Over the years, we've provided a lot of tips on how to recover space on your Mac, one of which is to delete your browsing history in Safari. That's all fine and good, and it will definitely open up megabytes...
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...
