What Apple broke in macOS Big Sur 11.2 With the release of macOS 11.2, Apple introduced a bug in the kernel which prevented the SoftRAID driver when running on M1 Macs. While Apple had this fixed in a beta release...
You can edit photos in a variety of formats with the macOS Photos app. For some folks, working with the RAW format offers several benefits. RAW vs JPEG. Of course, keep in mind that files in the JPEG format, the...
As you may recall, I've offered several solutions for creating virtual machines on M1 Macs. UTM, for example, is a low-cost way to run Windows and Linux on Apple Silicon. Earlier this month, Parallels released Parallels Desktop 16.5, offering native...
macOS Sierra introduced a Tags feature, which offered a way to organize your files. macOS Mojave introduced the new Finder Quick Actions that let you perform quick edits to files without having to open the apps associated with them. Both...
Welcome to this edition of OWC in the Press: News and Reviews, where we showcase some of the latest headlines and most helpful articles from publications across the globe. This week we have some fantastic pieces from Macworld, Windows Central, Terminal Gamer, New York Times, ZDNET and Creative Bloq.
One of the cool features of Safari is its ability to block those annoying pop-up windows that have become increasingly dominant. Even cooler is that you can block pop-up windows on certain websites while allowing them on others because some...
You can use the Disk Utility in macOS to create a disk image from a disk or a connected device. A disk image (.dmg file) is a file that looks and acts like a mountable device or volume. What is...
The M1 Mac Family Have an M1 Mac? You can create an external, bootable drive for it — but the disk won’t work with Intel Macs. There are benefits to having an external, bootable drive. For example, it allows you...
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...
