If you’ve had your Mac for a few years you may be looking longingly at the Apple website wishing you could justify the expense of buying a new one. But luckily you don’t have to fork out for a replacement computer to enjoy speed increases: in this…
Lees meerThe release of macOS Ventura is likely less than two weeks away and it will bring a slew of new features to gussy up your old Mac: Stage Manager, enhanced Spotlight search, Messages editing, and Continuity Camera, just to name a few. But the one f…
Lees meerAt the heart of every Apple device is an Apple processor. Apple has been using its own processors in its iPhones and iPads for some time, while the Mac lineup has nearly completed its transition away from Intel chips. Apple has far more devices wi…
Lees meerApple has routinely confused its users with the site captive.apple.com, which appears in a distinct Wi-Fi connection window that acts as a frontmost overlay in iOS, iPadOS, and macOS that you have to respond to. As I described back in 2018, Apple …
Lees meerFrom my Mac I sometimes access remote machines with ssh providing a username and password. The password is generated and sometimes contains a ~. As soon as I hit the ~ in the password, I get some kind of subshell(?): user's Password: ss…
Lees meerI am starting to use diskutil for scripts managing my removable media and sorts; however, there is a few cryptic symbols I cannot figure out, I googled to no avail, but still not finding the true meaning of the asterisk and plus symbols…
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