This is a more technical post, so you can just skip it if it's not your bag. All of the data on your Mac's drive has to be organized in some fashion, so that you can get to it. This is accomplished via what is known as a file system, and the only metaphor I can come up with for it is increasingly ...
the simplest Time Capsule replacement
When Apple decided to exit the WiFi products market, one unwelcome casualty was the Time Capsule. Forgetting its router and access point capabilities, it solved an important problem for Mac notebook users -- it was a drive that attached to your network, rather than directly to your computer. In my ...
Ding, dong! No more hard drives in iMacs!
For years, and years, and years, Apple has been staining its brand by shipping iMacs with hard drives in them. macOS hasn't performed particularly well on hard drives in quite a while, and, since Mojave was released a couple of years ago, it's been just absolutely unusable, due to the switch to the ...
Use your Mac’s keyboard to type on iPhone or iPad
Every now and then, I wish had a physical keyboard for my iPhone or iPad, usually so that I can type into some app that doesn't have a good desktop web browser equivalent. You can of course pair any Bluetooth keyboard, including Apple's, but I don't always have one handy. However, someone's written ...
how to get live Facebook chat support
Like most popular free services, Facebook does not normally have any live support options. However, I discovered a way to get live chat support today. (Not on the phone, but at least real-time online chat with a human.) It takes a while to set up, but that part only has to be done once. Perform ...
I only just discovered you can now remove a single item from Mac Trash
For most of its history, Trash in macOS was an all or nothing affair. If you wanted something removed from your Mac permanently, everything else had to go with it. But what if you wanted to permanently delete a very large file, so you could recover the disk space, without including the smaller ...