Linux on a Recycled Mac: Trying to Make It Work
A few weeks ago we ran an article about how to install Linux on a Mac, and it generated a lot of comments. One of the more common themes in the comments was "Why run Linux in a virtual machine? Why...
A few weeks ago we ran an article about how to install Linux on a Mac, and it generated a lot of comments. One of the more common themes in the comments was "Why run Linux in a virtual machine? Why...
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...
During November and December, we offered up a series of suggestions for travelers who take their tech on the road with them. In one of those articles, the use of the Find My iPhone app was described in detail for finding...
Tux the penguin, the official mascot of Linux Linux is an open-source Unix-like operating system that has been available in one form or another since 1991. Many servers operate on Linux, which is probably its primary use case. Early on in...
Keychain is a password management system for macOS and iOS that was originally released with Mac OS 8.6 back in 1999 as a way of holding passwords, private keys, certificates and secure notes in encrypted files on the machine. Since...
One reason that many people move from the world of Windows to macOS is because they're tired of the hassles of having their PCs infected with viruses and other malware. The other reason? The miseries of the tools that allegedly...
It can happen to anyone. One minute you're sitting at an outside café, you get distracted, and the next minute you notice your iPhone or MacBook is gone. Or you're walking in a crowd when someone bumps up against you...and...
Sometimes it can feel like our iPhones and iPads are the speediest computers on the planet, while other times they seem to mimic an old Macintosh LC520 with a 1200 baud dial-up modem. For those of you too young to remember the days...
Spotlight, the Mac's primary search tool, was introduced with OS X Tiger. As most original versions do, Spotlight lacked a few features and had some minor issues, but for the most part, it just seemed to work. One issue that...
