Those of us who use our Apple laptops in places other than our homes know that it's sometimes difficult to remember passwords for all of those Wi-Fi networks we connect to. Fortunately, you can save many of them to the...
Disk Utility, the macOS Swiss Army knife for working with disks and storage volumes, may have a few blades missing, especially when it comes to working with unformatted drives and unused space on a disk or storage volume. In versions...
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...
Disk Utility has long been the workhorse of choice for dealing with hard drives, SSDs, and disk images. With the advent of APFS (Apple File System) with macOS High Sierra, Disk Utility acquired some additional capabilities that allow it to...
Time Machine is the built-in application in macOS that automates the process of backing up your data to an external drive. It's easy to use, and it makes recovering from a drive failure or a macOS update gone awry as...
This is the third installment in the Using the Mac's Accessibility Features series. If you missed the previous installments, you can catch up by reading: macOS 101: Getting Started With the Mac's Accessibility Features macOS 101: Using Accessibility's Vision and...
Do you have a few USB flash drives lying around? Chances are you have at least a couple, or maybe even a small drawer full of them. In my case, I have about a half dozen, with no specific use...
One of the niceties in the Mac OS is the ability of the system to display how your storage space is being used. Originally introduced in OS X Lion as part of a feature upgrade to the System Information app,...
Even with the bigger hard drives, SSDs, and Fusion drives in modern Macs, it's still possible to run low on storage space. Especially on the MacBook and MacBook Air with 128GB of SSD storage, storing a lot of video, photographs,...
