Yesterday's announcements at the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) keynote address were remarkable in one aspect: unlike past years, there were absolutely no hardware announcements of any sort. That flew in the face of expectations; many in the Apple blogosphere...
Do you keep your Macs for longer periods of time than do most of your friends? I've been accused of hoarding my old Macs; for example, keeping an original 2006 Mac Pro running long after it should have been retired....
It's that time of year when visions of sugar plum fairies bringing us new Macs dance through our heads. Or more likely, you're considering buying a new Mac to replace an older model, or to give as a gift to...
(Apple File System.) Thanks to sharp-eyed Rocket Yard commenter Chris pointing us to an Apple support document, we now have a bit more information on macOS High Sierra, Apple File System, and how it all works on Macs and on volumes that are formatted...
Have you ever been away from your home or office Mac and suddenly realized that you a) left it on when you meant to shut it down, b) tried to run a report or access a system only available from that machine, or...
The anticipation of buying a new Mac is sometimes tempered by the realization that at some point, you're going to have to move the data from your old Mac or PC to its new home on your new Mac. Luckily for...
Disk Utility, in all of its incarnations, has always had a restore function, a way to copy a disk volume or image file to another volume, creating an exact copy. We often think of this as cloning a drive, so...
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Whether you're new to the Mac platform or have been using it for years, there's one feature built into Mac OS X or macOS that you should not only know about, but use. That feature is Time Machine, a built-in...
