Summer in the Northern Hemisphere is just around the corner, the kids are out of school, and it's time to go on vacation. Sadly, the flood of emails that appear in your inboxes won't take a vacation, but there is...
I was expecting a version of the macOS that would mostly be about security and performance, but while I expected a fastball, Apple threw us a curve. Apple announced that macOS Mojave not only included the expected security, performance, and privacy...
As soon as the crowd departed from the keynote hall at WWDC 2018 on Monday, Apple made the first beta versions of iOS 12 and its other operating systems available to developers. Today we’re taking a first look at some...
OWC has reintroduced its line of OWC Envoy Pro minis. Resembling a thumb drive, the Envoy Pro mini is, in fact, the desktop-class SSD that fits in a pocket, offering reliable performance in a go-anywhere design. Elegant, light and strong, the...
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...
Last week, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released a statement saying that all consumers and small businesses should reboot their Wi-Fi routers and NAS devices. If you haven't yet taken the time to do this, check the rest of...
Securely wiping a drive, removing all of its data, and ensuring that no meaningful information can be recovered, has long been a feature of Disk Utility and its erase function. Even though the default for Disk Utility is a simple...
On Friday, May 25, 2018, a new regulation known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) begins being enforced in the European Union countries. You've probably had your email inbox inundated recently with messages about revised privacy policies as companies act...
Disk First Aid, currently part of Disk Utility, has long been the go-to utility for verifying and repairing a Mac's storage system. Included as a standalone app with the original Mac OS, it was later folded into Disk Utility when...
