The worrisome decline of OS X quality and integrity..
Blog posts
2023
2023-06-05 Apple 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra/Max and Apple 2023 Mac Studio M2 Ultra/Max
2023-05-30 Camera Cards for Wallet Backups — SDXC vs CFExpress Type B, APFS Encryption
2023-05-22 Deeply Discounted Used & New Macs at OWC
2023-05-18 macOS Ventura 13.4 Brings Important Bug Fix for Apple Silicon SoftRAID Users
2023-05-02 TESTED, Apple 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max vs Apple MacBook Pro M1 Max
2023-05-01 Apple Core Rot: File Sharing Crashes all My Machines When Connecting eg "SOCD report detected: (iBoot panic)"
2023-04-21 WSJ: When Apple Comes Calling, ‘It’s the Kiss of Death’
2023-04-19 WSJ: The iPhone Setting Thieves Use to Lock You Out of Your Apple Account
2023-03-30 Yet Another Urgent Security Update for Apple iOS
2023-03-28 macOS Security: erroneous messages eg “openjdk-20-x64.jdk is damaged and can't be opened”
2023-03-07 Apple Continues to Destabilize macOS with Kernel Panics
2023-02-26 Legal Tort Liability to Require Email for Login ID?
2023-02-25 WSJ: A Basic iPhone Feature Helps Criminals Steal Your Entire Digital Life
2023-02-25 Using a Password Manager or Any Stored Passwords on a Portable Device is a Terrible Idea?
2023-02-25 Apple iOS: Your Digital Life Stolen if Passcode Compromised? How it Works
2023-02-25 2-Factor Authentication (2FA) for Securing your Computer of Phone or Tablet Logins
2023-02-17 Zero-Day Exploits for macOS, iOS Could Cost you Your Life Savings, Identity Theft, etc.
2023-02-17 TESTED, Apple 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: Zerene Stacker Focus Stacking
2023-02-17 TESTED, Apple 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: SSD Performance
2023-02-17 TESTED, Apple 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: Photoshop Benchmarks
2023-02-17 TESTED, Apple 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: Memory Bandwidth
2023-02-17 TESTED, Apple 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: Maven Build Java App
2023-02-17 TESTED, Apple 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: Integrity Checker Java 'verify'
2023-02-17 TESTED, Apple 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: Image Scaling with Topaz Gigapixel AI
2023-02-17 TESTED, Apple 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: Assemble Panorama in Photoshop
2023-02-17 TESTED, Apple 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: Adobe Lightroom Import/Export
2023-02-17 TESTED, Apple 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: Adobe Camera Raw, RAW to JPEG
2023-02-17 TESTED, Apple 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: Adobe Camera Raw Enhance Details
2023-02-17 TESTED, Apple 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: Adobe Camera Raw Enhance Details
2023-02-17 Apple 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max: How Much Faster than 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max?
2023-02-16 REVIEWED: 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max
2023-02-15 macOS Ventura: Finder Display of File/Folder Dates with Time in Seconds
2023-02-13 Dirty Secrets of Thunderbolt Daisy Chaining: Never Reliable, Probably Never Will Be, Kernel Panics with Sustained I/O eg Backups
2023-01-29 Reader Comment: macOS Ventura Fails to Mount Camera Cards For Some
2023-01-24 The Anxiety Inducing Experience of Updating macOS Monterey
2023-01-17 Apple MacBook Pro M2 Max
2022
2022-12-21 iPhone Call Audio Routing
2022-12-08 FBI ‘Deeply Concerned’ After Apple Says Nearly All iCloud Data Now Has End-to-End Encryption
2022-11-25 macos Bug for Launch Daemons in launchctl: posix_spawn ... Operation not permitted error 1
2022-11-21 Apple Analytics Personally Identifies You While Marketing the Piss Out of “Privacy”?
2022-11-15 Apple’s New iPhone SOS Feature: Great for the Real Deal, Ripe for Abuse by Feckless Morons
2022-11-10 macOS Monterey Update 12.6.1 Tends to Kernel Panic Machines Using SoftRAID — Apple XProtect Bug?
2022-11-09 macOS Monterey Update 12.6.1 Won’t Sleep Display
2022-11-09 macOS Monterey Locks Me Out of my 2019 Mac Pro after Shutown/Reboot, Both Admin Accounts Kaput
2022-09-02 Which Version of macOS for Older, Newer Machines? Rules For Upgrading
2022-07-14 Apple Core Rot: Invasive Spotlight Indexing Impairs Use of Your Mac
2022-07-14 2019 Mac Pro vs Mac Studio M1 Ultra: USB Speed Differs with many things, such as OWC Envoy Pro EX 8TB USB-C SSD
2022-06-27 Locked Out of my Own Desktop: Confusing, but an Easy Fix Found
2022-06-25 Scalability of Focus Stacking: Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra vs Apple 2019 Mac Pro 28-Core XEON W
2022-06-24 Reader Comments on Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra
2022-06-24 Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Fan Noise
2022-06-22 REVIEWED: Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra — Now with Updated Results for Photoshop CC 23.4.1 — Big Speed Improvements
2022-06-21 TESTED: Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra: diglloyd Photoshop Benchmarks
2022-06-21 TESTED: Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra: SHA512 Hashing Speed Scalability
2022-06-21 TESTED: Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Java Web Server Startup
2022-06-21 TESTED: Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Create Multi-Res Image Series
2022-06-21 TESTED: Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Build Java App with Apache Maven
2022-06-21 TESTED: Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Adobe Lightroom Import/Export
2022-06-21 TESTED: Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Adobe Camera Raw Enhance Details
2022-06-21 Adobe Releases Photoshop CC 23.4.1 — FIXES Serious Performance Bugs on Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra
2022-06-20 TESTED: Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra: RAW File Conversion, Sony A7R IV
2022-06-20 TESTED: Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra: RAW File Conversion, Nikon D850
2022-06-20 TESTED: Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra: RAW File Conversion, Hasselblad X1D
2022-06-20 TESTED: Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra: RAW File Conversion, Fujifilm GFX100S, Fujifilm GFX50S
2022-06-20 Adobe Lightroom Memory Usage: Excessive?
2022-06-19 TESTED: Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra: RAW File Conversion, PhaseOne IQ4
2022-06-19 TESTED: Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Adobe Photoshop CC 2022: Filters — 2X CPU and GPU Cores and Memory = SLOWER
2022-06-18 TESTED: Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra: SSD Speed
2022-06-18 TESTED: Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Memory Bandwidth
2022-06-18 TESTED: Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra: IntegrityChecker, Verify (SHA512 Hashing, Multithreaded)
2022-06-18 TESTED: Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra: Focus Stacking with Zerene Stacker
2022-06-16 Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra SLOWER than M1 Max?
2022-06-15 Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra Up And Running
2022-06-12 Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra Coming Soon for Testing
2022-05-18 macOS Finder Changes File Creation and Modification Dates on Every File it Copies (but milliseconds part only, HFS only)
2022-05-12 Apple Mac Studio Coming for Review... When Supply Chain Delivers
2022-04-23 Reader Question: “Will DiglloydTools work with macOS Monterey?”
2022-04-20 Apple Studio Display: the Technological Dumpster Fire that Crashes Just Like iOS and macOS, and Bricks Itself
2022-03-23 Apple Mac Studio Coming for Review... When Supply Chain Delivers
2022-03-11 Apple M1 Ultra CPU: a Technological Tour de Force Joining Two M1 Max Chips on the Same Die with UltraFusion
2022-03-11 Apple M1 Ultra CPU GPU Performance: Fastest CPU and GPU in a PC/Mac in History? With Ultra Low Power Consumption
2022-03-10 Apple Mac Studio Coming for Review
2022-03-10 Accessories and Storage for your Apple Mac Studio
2022-03-09 Apple Mac Studio with M1 Ultra Looks to Offer Thrilling Performance
2022-03-02 macOS Monterey Locks Me Out of my 2019 Mac Pro after Reboot, Repudiating my Login Password
2022-02-22 Apple iCloud Might Eject Your Files, Eliminating them From Your Backups
2022-02-17 Reader Comment: “In the calendar app, search does not work”
2022-02-15 A Bit More Privacy For WiFi on your iPhone
2022-02-14 macOS Monterey: Constantly Loses 2nd Display Coming out of Sleep, Forces me to Reboot 2-3 Times Every Day — Thunderbolt = voodoo
2022-02-05 How to Fix: Spotlight Search Not Working in macOS Monterey, Broken on External Volumes, Network Volumes
2022-01-26 TESTED: Apple 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max — a Stunning Performer That Crushes Intel-Based Macs
2022-01-18 Apple 16-inch MacBook Pro M1 Max Here Soon for Testing
2022-01-17 Reader Comment: Finder File Copying Data Loss... “catalyst that drove me off the platform”
2022-01-08 Upgraded to macOS Monterey — an Unexpectedly Good Result — So Far
2022-01-03 IntegrityChecker Java (icj): How to Eliminate the WARN_IO_STALL Messages
2022-01-01 SHA-512 Hashing Speed in Java: 2019 Mac Pro, 2019 iMac 5K, 2020 iMac 5K, 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max
2021
2021-12-27 MacOS Big Sur Dec 14 Update: Reboots 2019 Mac Pro Continually
2021-12-22 Apple M1 Macs: Not a Mature Solution for General Usage eg Java Virtual Machine
2021-12-16 Java for Apple M1 Macs
2021-11-26 Apple 16-inch MacBook Pro M1 Max Should be Here for Review in a Few Weeks
2021-11-25 Numerous Daily “ios 15.1 is available for your iPhone” Notifications are Getting Old
2021-11-02 Will Apple Ever Fix the Kernel Panic Problems in macOS?
2021-11-01 MacBook Pro M1 Max Shipping in 2022 — Consider a 10-Core iMac 5K with Gorgeous Large Display Instead, and Save $1500 too!
2021-10-30 Why the Apple Mac mini is a Disaster as a Headless Server
2021-10-29 How to More than Double I/O Speed for Validation of Data Integrity of Large Amounts of Data (IntegrityChecker)
2021-10-26 OWC Announces Release of SoftRAID 6.2 for Mac, Compatibility with macOS 12 Monterey and Support for APFS Volumes
2021-10-22 Only the 16-Inch Apple MacBook Pro M1 Max offers “High Power Mode” for Intensive Usage
2021-10-22 Fastest SSD Yet in the MacBook Pro M1 Max, but Will Apps Run Things Faster Because of It?
2021-10-21 Will We Have an Apple M1 Max Duo and Quad in 2022? Intel-Based Solutions to Become Performance Dinosaurs Overnight?
2021-10-20 The 'Killer' Mac that Apple is NOT Offering, and Might Never — the Apple Mac Workhorse
2021-10-20 Reader Comment: “what Apple did with the M1 Max, it’s very impressive... Intel is really in deep trouble”
2021-10-20 Can the Apple M1 Max chip be Scaled to 25 CPU Cores and 80 GPU Cores by late 2022 via TSMC 3nm Technology?
2021-10-20 Apple M1 Max Chip: Apparent Die Size of 432 mm^2 Dwarfs Just About Everything Else, Far Beyond Any Competitor
2021-10-20 Apple Core Rot: Safari No Longer Preloads Tabs on macOS Big Sur
2021-10-19 Storage and Accessories by OWC Apple 14/16-inch MacBook Pros M1 Pro/M1 Max
2021-10-19 Big Thanks to B&H Photo — Apple 16-inch MacBook Pro Coming For Review
2021-10-18 Phishing: Beware Emails with Many Invisible but Clickable Links, Latest Fad is Sender that Says "iPhone 13"
2021-10-18 Apple 14/16-inch MacBook Pros Here, with M1 Max or M1Pro CPU: What You Need to Know
2021-10-16 macOS: 3+ CPU Cores for up to several minutes after Rebooting
2021-10-14 Latest macOS Mojave Update on my iMac 5K Wrecks Sleep Mode; iMac Constantly Wakes up Dozens of times a day
2021-10-13 Apple ARM M1X CPU Macs eg MacBook Pro Next Week... Time to Consider?
2021-10-11 With Apple, You are the Product Being Sold — Software Intent on Sales Ignores Your Interests
2021-10-05 Years Later, macOS Big Sur leaves Major Disk I/O Performance Bug Unfixed
2021-10-05 Apple Safari Tab Bar Colorization: How to Disable
2021-10-04 macOS Big Sur Locks Me Out of my 2019 Mac Pro after Kernel Panic, Repudiating my Login Password
2021-10-04 Checking for Data Corruption after macOS Hoses Your System
2021-09-27 How To Prevent System Sleep while a Terminal Command is Running: caffeinate
2021-09-26 Should you Upgrade to macOS Monterey?
2021-09-26 Apple is slow to fix critical security bugs, leaving you vulnerable to disaster
2021-09-13 macOS and iOS: Zero-click Security Bug Finally Fixed
2021-08-26 Can’t Apple Release a macOS that is Reliable?! Kernel Panics
2021-08-13 Apple Spotlight Won’t Find Applications Until they are Launched
2021-08-10 TESTED: OWC Envoy Pro SX
2021-08-05 Apple replacing industry-standard end-to-end encrypted messaging system with infrastructure for surveillance and censorship — iPhone as spyPhone
2021-08-01 How to Make Web Sites Work Properly with Apple Safari Web Browser — Disable 'Enable content blockers'
2021-07-30 Separate Your Data from System and Applications on the Boot Drive Using an APFS Volume
2021-07-30 Brain-Dead Spotlight Search for Source Code Files
2021-07-28 How To Quickly Email a Link to a Web Page
2021-07-22 OWC Introduces Envoy Pro SX Thunderbolt Bus-Powered Portable SSD
2021-07-21 How to Batch-Rename files in the macOS Finder
2021-06-28 Apple Core Rot: Never Update Your iPhone Before a Trip, Make Sure to Run the Additional Update
2021-06-28 Apple Core Rot: Networking in macOS is Badly Broken for WiFi Hot Spot
2021-06-18 With the Delay of Apple M1/M2 Pro Macs, What to Do Now?
2021-05-18 Reader Comment: sticking with Mac vs transitioning to a PC
2021-05-18 Apple Readies new Crop of Pro Mac using Apple M1/M2 Chip Technology
2021-05-15 Reader Comment: MacBook Pro running OSX 10.12 has finally had the discrete GPU die... used this machine almost continuously for 10 years
2021-05-12 Reader Comment: Avoid “Upgrades”, Stick with What is Proven
2021-05-11 macOS Big Sur: how to List Active Kernel Extensions
2021-05-11 macOS Big Sur 11.3 Reader Comment: Multiple Issues including Kernel Panics
2021-04-29 macOS Big Sur 11.3: Upgrade ASAP for fix to 0-Day Gatekeeper Security Exploit (Apple CVE-2021-30657)
2021-04-29 iOS 14.5 and macOS: Removing/Breaking Useful Functionality One Small Piece at a Times
2021-04-27 MacOS Big Sur 11.3 Update: woe to professionals daring to use dual displays on a Mac
2021-04-21 OWC Solutions for Apple M1 iPad Pro
2021-04-20 Apple 24-Inch iMac with M1 CPU — Home Run for Mainstream Usage, Iffy for Photographers
2021-04-15 Apple Image Capture in macOS Big Sur: Degraded and Broken
2021-04-04 Display Connections for HDMI/DisplayPort Displays on 2019 Mac Pro or Other Macs
2021-03-27 Kernel Panics are Oh So easy to Provoke — Remove an SD Card
2021-03-26 macOS Big Sur: Finder Randomly Depopulates Favorites in Sidebar
2021-03-18 Kernel Panics with Adobe Photoshop on macOS Big Sur Continue
2021-03-06 diglloydTools IntegrityChecker Java: Optimizing Performance on Hard Drives (macOS)
2021-03-06 diglloydTools IntegrityChecker Java: Optimizing Performance by Working Around macOS Caching Performance Bugs
2021-03-05 Apple Core Rot: the Arrogance of Apple User Interface Design in macOS Big Sur
2021-03-01 “Upgraded” to macOS Big Sur on 2019 Mac Pro — No Workflow Benefits, All Downside So Far
2021-03-01 diglloydTools and IntegrityChecker Java Working Fine on macOS Big Sur
2021-02-05 Reader Comment: “so wish I saw your blog post before purchasing 2019 MacBook Pro”
2021-01-22 Will Apple M1 Macs Become More Reliable than Intel-based Macs?
2021-01-22 Adobe Photoshop CC 2021 Continues to Kernel Panic macOS Catalina
2020
2020-12-29 Adobe Photoshop CC 2021 and Apple Destroy My Workflow Worse Than Any Problem I’ve ever Had
2020-12-16 Professionals should NEVER Upgrade a Production Machine with a Major macOS Release
2020-12-14 Apple Security Update Causes Two Kernel Panics, Won’t Boot Once, Screws Up Displays, and DATA LOSS PROBLEMS
2020-11-28 First Iteration of Apple M1 Macs: 16GB memory Limit Puts Hard Ceiling on Potential Uses
2020-11-28 Apple M1 Macs: Single-Core Performance is Awesome, Multi-Core Lags the Professional Intel Macs
2020-11-27 Apple Spyware in macOS Big Sur Cannot be Disabled (“sneak.berlin: Your Computer Isn’t Yours”)
2020-11-18 OWC ANNOUNCES PRODUCT COMPATIBILITIES WITH NEW APPLE M1 MACS
2020-11-04 How to Change Web Search Engine Preference in Web Browser, or iPhone/iPad
2020-10-16 Apple iOS 14 is Buggier Than Ever Before, macOS Crapalina Remains a Buzzing Turd-Pile
2020-10-09 If Apple Can’t Get the Basics Right, How Can you Expect Security? — “We Hacked Apple for 3 Months: Here’s What We Found”
2020-10-06 Apple T2 Chip: Unfixable Security Flaw that Gives Attacker Full Control
2020-10-05 Why Doesn’t Apple Safari Work on Important Web Sites?
2020-10-05 Viewing Processes and Memory in macOS Activity Monitor
2020-10-05 Reader Comment: accountds Running Wild, Viewing Processes and Memory
2020-10-04 Apple Core Rot: macOS Mojave Supplemental Update
2020-10-04 Apple Core Rot: Apple Has Lost Me as a Customer
2020-09-19 Apple Core Rot: iOS 14 and macOS Safari Update Bring Treasure Trove of New Bugs
2020-09-10 Apple Core Rot: Syncing of Random Music Tracks to iPhone, iPad
2020-09-09 Apple Core Rot: Apple Messages.app Stops Working after a Few Images
2020-09-06 Apple Core Rot: Erases my 200GB of Music on iPad and iPhone Every Time I Update iOS.
2020-09-01 Sloppy engineering, irresponsible and negligent quality control practices, and disdain for the needs of working pros are now the hallmark of Apple software
2020-09-01 Apple Core Rot: Apple Notarizes Adware (Malware), Compromises User Systems
2020-09-01 Adobe Photoshop CC 2020 Rainbow-Beachballs and Goes Zombie-Process, macOS Catalina Goes Non-Functional Requiring Hard Reboot
2020-08-29 Apple Core Rot: recent Apple macOS Catalina Update Crashes Mac Pro every other night with kernel panic: “thunderbolt power on failed”
2020-07-31 Apple iPhone Refuses to Play 90% of My Music and Audiobooks: “song is not currently available in your country or region”
2020-07-28 It’s Almost Too Late to Get the Last Mac that Can Run Mojave
2020-07-26 Disturbing Number of Bad 16-Inch MacBook Pros
2020-07-26 Apple Core Rot: Music.app Screws my Music Library, Forgetting Locations and Immediately Crashing When Searching for Missing Tracks
2020-07-23 A Troublesome Security and Privacy Flaw: Apple Mail Auto-Complete + How to Delete Unwanted Recipients
2020-07-19 Apple Safari Web Site Security Features are Badly Designed: must be disabled for ALL web sites if just one web site has issues
2020-07-16 macOS Catalina 10.15.6 Update: Whacks Software Update Preferences, turns Everything On
2020-07-16 macOS Catalina 10.15.6 Update: Safari Cannot Download Files Any More: “the disk doesn’t have enough free space” (ditto for macOS Mojave security update)
2020-06-30 Thoughts on Apple’s Transition away from Intel CPUs to Apple ARM, macOS Big Sur
2020-06-27 Daily Aggravation with macOS Catalina Sleep Problems: Still the Same Piece of Shit as 4 Months Ago
2020-06-25 Faster WiFi with Antennas and Beamforming? (Updated with reader comments)
2020-06-07 Cell Signal Booster: weBoost Drive Reach Substantially Improves Uplink Performance Over WeBoost Drive 4G-X
2020-06-01 Use Apple’s “Night Shift” to Reduce Blue Light on Computer Display and iPhone, iPad
2020-05-18 2019 Mac Pro and Kernel Panics with PCIe Cards
2020-05-01 Long Term Usage Report: WeBoost Cell Signal Booster Greatly Expands my Camping Site Options and Saves the Day on Internet Access
2020-04-17 Why Is My Mac Hanging When Copying Files After Upgrading to macOS Catalina 10.15.4?
2020-04-03 macOS: Apple 'TrueTone' and Display Profile Problems
2020-04-02 Malware on iPhone? Unwanted “Congratulations Apple iPhone user” Popup Malware Erases Existing Site from Browser History + Improper Security Certificate
2020-03-30 macOS System Sleep Issues: Apple Mail a Possible Factor?
2020-03-01 macOS Catalina is a Disruptive POS — No System Sleep, Displays Won’t Sync
2020-02-21 macOS Catalina: System Sleep Frequently Fails
2020-02-21 macOS Catalina: Loads of Crapware Chewing up Memory and Sometimes CPU Cycles, Adobe Does it Too
2020-02-11 Apple Pro Display XDR: USB-C Ports Connect at USB 2.0 Speed (20X slower)
2020-02-10 Why Those Super Handy USB-C Ports on Displays and Video Cards SUCK
2020-02-08 Apple Breaks Basic Functionality in macOS Crapalina: Terminal.app Cannot Access Files Even with Full Disk Access and 'sudo'
2020-02-03 macOS Catalina 10.15.3: Privacy Tab Does not Work — Files and Folders Inoperable
2020-02-01 macOS Catalina 10.15.3 vs 10.15.2: Consistent Performance Losses in Photoshop CC 21.0.3 vs 21.0.2
2020-02-01 macOS Catalina 10.15.3 Disables all of my Samsung T5 Backup Drives
2020-02-01 Apple Pro Display XDR: a Gorgeous $7K Display Presented at the Apple Store like Some Cheap $399 4K TV at Best Buy, and Apple Employees Don’t Even Know Their Products
2020-01-31 macOS Catalina Screws up My Display Arrangement and Resolution EVERY TIME I Reboot
2020-01-30 Does macOS Have a Rare but Stupefyingly Nasty Multithreading Bug in the Unified Buffer Cache?
2020-01-29 The World’s Most Valuable Company is Incompetent at Software Development — Apple Management Disrespects Tens of Millions of Customers
2020-01-29 Reader Comment: 2018 Mac mini with macOS Catalina Will Not Boot with eGPU
2020-01-29 2018 Mac mini has Serious Trouble Syncing with Display via either HDMI or DisplayPort
2020-01-20 Upgrading from macOS Catalina to macOS Mojave (“downgrading” to macOS Mojave)
2020-01-19 How to Add File/Folder Access Permissions in macOS Catalina, including Full Disk Access
2020-01-19 How to Add File/Folder Access Permissions for Java in macOS Catalina
2020-01-19 For Mac/Windows/Linux/etc — diglloydTools IntegrityChecker Java version 1.3b5 Now Available — Includes Automated Install Script for macOS users
2020-01-19 Apple Core Rot: Too Many Crashes with macOS Catalina (“Unexpected S5 Entry” when ejecting SDXX camera card)
2020-01-18 Reader Comments: macOS Catalina vs Mojave, Drive Initialization Hanging/Crashing
2020-01-18 Caution for Those Working with Color-Calibrated Displays: macOS Catalina Resets Display Profile
2020-01-18 Apple Core Rot: macOS Catalina Fails to Update Critical Security Settings
2020-01-07 Eye-Burning Bug in macOS Catalina on 2019 Mac Pro: LG 5K Display Resets to Maximum Brightness Every Reboot
2020-01-02 2019 Mac Pro: Hardware Elegance, macOS Crapalina Belongs in the Toilet
2019
2019-12-19 macOS Catalina: Read-Only Boot Volume Precludes Use of Top-Level File System Namespace / Paths (UPDATE: Solution with /etc/synthetic.conf)
2019-12-19 macOS Catalina: Costly 'Upgrade' for Those with 32-Bit Software
2019-12-18 2019 Mac Pro: Apple Reference Articles and Specifications
2019-12-10 Apple Mac Pro and Apple Pro Display XDR Now Available for Pre-Order at B&H Photo
2019-11-26 macOS and iOS: How to Exclude the Wrong WiFi Network
2019-11-24 The Apple iOS 13 Fiasco
2019-11-23 iOS 13.2.3: Random Haptic Clicks Drive Me Nuts on iPhone 11 Pro Max
2019-11-21 Don’t be Fooled with Phone Phishing: Purported Compromised Apple Account with Spoofed Number Makes it Look like Apple is Calling
2019-11-19 Apple iOS 13.2.3 Breaks Bluetooth Pairing for my Mercedes Sprinter Van for all my iPhones
2019-11-17 Audio Shut-Off Problems in Safari on iPhone 11 Pro Max (iPhone 7 Plus continues to work fine)
2019-11-17 Apple iPhone Face Recognition: Amazingly Seamless but Fails in Dim Light (UPDATED with ideas to try)
2019-11-17 Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max Cameras: Protruding Lens Design Captures Crud, Risks Scratching
2019-11-17 Apple iOS 13: Can the Privacy Mode Banner be Dispensed With?
2019-11-15 How to Stop macOS from Urging You to “Upgrade” to macOS Catalina
2019-10-08 Professionals Should Stay Away from macOS Catalina for Six Months
2019-09-06 Caution on Upgrading to macOS Catalina — Could Cost You Money and Functionality — Configure Software Update to Prevent Auto-Update
2019-09-03 Copying Files in macOS Can Truncate File Date/Time to One-Second Granularity
2019-08-30 How macOS Can Cause Data Loss: Spotlight Chooses on Backup (Clone) Volumes, Which User then Works on... Later Wiped Out by Backup
2019-08-30 Apple Support Cost My Client Dearly
2019-08-28 How to Show or Hide Hidden Files in macOS Finder
2019-08-28 Beware of Phishing — Fake Chase Bank
2019-06-27 Apple 2019 Mac Pro: Everything I Want... but Truly High-End and Unaffordable for Most
2019-06-20 Apple Core Rot: macOS Finder Shows Bogus Files s Not Yet Copied 18 Hours Later
2019-06-20 Apple Core Rot: iTunes Bugs
2019-05-11 Configuring Time Format to Include Seconds Such as in macOS Finder Windows; YYYY-MM-DD and HH:MM:SS Format for Date/Time
2019-05-09 Browser Hijacking: the WeKnow.ac Malware
2019-05-07 Switched to macOS Mojave, out of Necessity with 2019 iMac 5K
2019-03-30 Concerned about macOS Security Fixes
2019-03-06 Apple Costs me 1/3 of my Monthly Cell Phone Data by Downloading Unwanted macOS Mojave
2019-03-05 Apple Core Rot: macOS Finder File Copying: Fails to Replace "dot files" When Replacing a folder = DATA LOSS
2019-03-01 Apple Apparently IGNORES Researcher’s Report of 0-Day Exploit for macOS KeyChain
2019-02-22 Apple Core Rot : Debugging Severe Security Bug in Apple’s macOS Security Infrastructure (Apple Gatekeeper and Apple MRT)
2019-02-21 Apple Core Rot: Serious Audio Issues with 2018 Mac mini (Distorted Audio, Crushed Sound)
2019-02-20 Apple Core Rot: macOS Finder Shows Zero-Size Folders — Very Dangerous if Unaware
2019-02-20 Apple Core Rot CAUTION: Apple’s macOS Security Infrastructure Might Not be Working on Your Mac (Apple Gatekeeper and Apple MRT)
2019-02-15 Beware of Phishing — Fake Chase Bank
2019-02-11 Apple Core Rot: Apple Mail hangs for an Hour or More
2019-02-09 Apple 2017 iMac 5K is a Terrific Machine, but Too Often It Impedes My Work
2019-02-06 Facebook and Its Ilk Are a Disease
2019-02-04 Can you Trust Apple with Anything at All? Claimed 0-Day Exploit for Stealing Every Password in Your Keychain on macOS Mojave and earlier macOS
2019-01-28 Apple Core Rot at its Finest: the Apple Facetime Bug Clown Show
2019-01-27 Apple Core Rot Metadata Loss: macOS Finder Destroys File Dates When Moving Files
2018
2018-12-11 Using Apple FileVault for Data Security
2018-11-07 Apple Core Rot is Back with a Vengeance in the Latest Security Update for macOS 10.13.6
2018-09-29 MPG Recommendation on macOS Mojave
2018-09-18 The NuGuard KX Case Has Saved My iPhone 7 Plus even at Speed from my Bicycle
2018-09-04 Simple Things that Get in the Way
2018-08-16 2018 MacBook Pro: the Apple T2 Chip Can Erratically Kernel Panic the System
2018-08-12 Semi-Bricking a 2018 MacBook Pro
2018-08-12 Reader Question: 2018 MacBook Pro Soldered -On Storage vs Data recovery
2018-08-03 Testing in Progress on Apple 2018 MacBook Pro 15-inch 2.9 GHz 32GB 2TB Radeon Pro 560X
2018-07-22 Tired of a Weak Cell Signal in your Vehicle? The WeBoost Cell Signal Booster Works Great!
2018-07-12 Apple Updates the MacBook Pro to a Real Pro Machine
2018-06-29 Another Finder Data Loss Bug
2018-06-26 Apple’s Penchant for IGNORING Data Loss Risks Continues, Unabated: Finder Erroneously Shows Files as Zero Bytes
2018-05-30 Upgrading to macOS High Sierra Without the Forcible “Upgrade” to APFS
2018-05-30 Apple Core Rot: File System Performance Problems, Thunderbolt 3 Performance Problems, Thunderbolt 3 Disconnect Problems, etc.
2018-05-29 Siri Knowledge: an Oxymoron?
2018-05-20 How to Fix Apple Remote Desktop that was Broken by Apple’s Recent Security Update: Reinstall RemoteDesktopClient 3.9.3 on Client Machines Using SSH
2018-05-20 Apple Core Rot: It’s Big Things, and Hundreds of Little Ones, that Together Add up to Chaos
2018-05-15 Thunderbolt Bug: Drives Disconnect at Random and Intermittent Times
2018-05-15 Are Smart Phones an IQ and Creativity Downgrade, with Anti-Social Bonus Points?
2018-05-07 Overheating Can Kill Optical Thunderbolt 2 Cables, Root Cause is the Mac Itself (Thermal Dumping)
2018-04-28 Apple’s Problems with Severe Security Bugs Continue
2018-03-16 One more Finder File Copy Bug: Is it Even Safe to Count on the macOS Finder to Copy Files?
2018-02-18 macOS High Sierra: APFS Corrupts Disk Images
2018-02-13 Apple iOS Source Code In the Wild
2018-01-30 Reader Question: Time to Move to High Sierra?
2018-01-17 macOS 10.13.2 and Disk Utility = Atrocious Bug-Ridden Disaster
2018-01-17 SoftRAID Updated to Fix Issue with macOS 10.13 High Sierra
2018-01-11 Apple Quality Control: Enough is Enough
2018-01-10 Nasty macOS High Sierra Bug: Unlock AppStore Preferences with *any* Password
2018-01-09 Apple’s Mitigations for the Meltdown and Spectre CPU Architecture Bugs: Long-Running Update Doesn’t Jive With Description
2018-01-07 macOS Compatibility Problems with iMac Pro with both High Sierra 10.13.2 (17C88) and Sierra 10.12.6 (16G1114)
2018-01-07 Meltdown and Spectre CPU Architecture Bugs: Apple Has Partially Addressed with No Performance Impact?
2018-01-07 Apple iMac Pro: First Look at Performance
2018-01-02 New Year’s Resolution for Apple: Can We Please Have macOS 'Sobered Up' in 2018? Keychain Crash and Others—macOS Increasingly Unstable = Unacceptable
2017
2017-12-26 Why Does Apple Put Random Unwanted Crud Into my iPhone Calendar?
2017-12-26 Crashes When Copying Files over a Network? Try Turning off Packet Signing
2017-12-25 New iPhone, iPad, Mac, etc? Cables and Related
2017-12-19 NewerTech NuGuard KX Case for iPhone 8 and 8 Plus, iPhone X (saved my iPhone several times when dropped) + Screen Protectors
2017-12-18 Copying Files with macOS Finder: Data Loss Bug
2017-12-09 One Example Among Many of Things that Suck with macOS: Continual Breakdown in Quality Control
2017-11-30 iPhone: Blurred Screen Requires Rebooting Phone
2017-11-30 iPhone: App Store Downloads Never Finish
2017-11-30 Perspective on Apple Core Rot Over Some Years
2017-11-30 Apple Mail: Cannot Configure ToolBar as Desired
2017-11-28 The Most Serious Apple Software Quality Failure Yet: Logging-in 'root' without any password
2017-11-27 Time Machine and APFS: Local Backups
2017-11-27 Computers Are not Getting Faster in a Meaningful Way, GPU is Half-Baked Tech, Too Many Software Developers Suck
2017-11-26 How to not Waste/Lose a Huge Chunk of Cellular Data for Personal Hotspot : Disable Background Downloading
2017-11-26 How to Disable Downloading of macOS High Sierra
2017-11-25 Upgrading to macOS High Sierra Without the Forcible “Upgrade” to APFS
2017-11-24 macOS High Sierra: Apple Core Rot in Spades: “damaged and can’t be opened” for all pdf, dmg, xml, xsd, properties, jar files, folders also — “damaged and can’t be opened” error message caused by com.apple.quarantine xattr
2017-11-24 macOS High Sierra APFS Performance is Inferior to HFS on Apple’s Fastest SSD: all cost, no benefit, at least not yet
2017-11-06 Reader Comment: Thunderbolt 3 Crash with High Sierra
2017-10-22 Apple Kernel Bug? 2015 iMac 5K Runs at 0.8 GHz When Cold, Even with Warm Air Out Rear Vents
2017-10-20 Caution on Upgrading to macOS High Sierra: Sony Firmware Updates
2017-10-06 macOS HighSierra: New Security Behavior includes a new Zero Day Exploit (kernel level compromise) and Dumping User Passwords
2017-10-06 Out of Space on your 2010-2015 MacBook Pro? SSD Prices Highly Attractive for Upgrading SSD Capacity
2017-10-05 macOS HighSierra: Brief Use Brings Relief in a Way: Worth Ignoring for a While
2017-10-05 macOS HighSierra: APFS Conversion of Boot Drive SSD
2017-09-17 macOS High Sierra: Apple’s Technote on APFS is Both Confusing and Possibly Incorrect
2017-09-11 iPhone Camera bug
2017-09-10 macOS High Sierra: Caution Advised
2017-09-08 iPhone 7s and 8: End of the Line for Value was with iPhone 6?
2017-09-03 iPhone: Made in China Gets Interesting
2017-08-29 SoftRAID Warns on Serious High Sierra Bug
2017-08-11 MacOS Bug: Kernel Task Uses Most or All CPU Cores Continuously (Ambient Temperature Too High)
2017-08-09 Reader Question: SSD vs Fusion Drive in iMac 5K
2017-07-25 64GB Memory Kit for 2017 iMac 5K Works Great: Save $760 vs Apple
2017-07-17 Apple Core Rot: Networking Problems (NFS, Failure to Copy Files, More)
2017-07-07 Speed Up Migration Assistant Using Thunderbolt Instead of Ethernet (or WiFi)
2017-07-07 Save a Few Gigabytes: How to Remove Garage Band
2017-07-07 Save Big Bucks on 64GB Memory for 2017 iMac 5K
2017-07-01 Apple Core Rot Strikes Again: Time Machine Wipes Out Other Backups and Fails to Restore Properly
2017-06-30 2017 MacBook Pro: Personal HotSpot via iPhone Does not Work
2017-06-20 macOS Thunderbolt 10 Gigabit Networking Still Not Ready for Prime Time
2017-06-19 Does macOS 10.12.5 Break Gigabit Ethernet?
2017-06-19 Apple iPhone Security: Pocket Dialing
2017-06-13 Apple Photos: Bad Idea + Downloading Images from iPhone/iPad/Other Devices using Apple Preview
2017-05-15 macOS 10.12.5 Update
2017-04-28 iTunes: Infinite Loop Trying to Install an App
2017-04-07 Solution for sudo hang problem in macOS 10.12.4
2017-04-07 How to Disable All Push Notification Requests in Apple Safari
2017-04-06 macOS 10.12.4: File Sharing Running at a few kilobytes per second
2017-03-28 Caution on macOS 10.12.4: sudo is broken, sudo hangs before password for nearly 5 minutes
2017-03-28 Caution on macOS 10.12.4: sudo is broken
2017-03-17 Security: Another Phishing Example (plus Apple Junk Mail Bug)
2017-03-10 Manage That Keyboard: How to Disable Caps Lock
2017-03-10 Apple Core Rot: Logging Spew
2017-02-23 Caution on Upgraded Apple Remote Desktop
2017-01-29 Finder Hangs While Copying
2017-01-29 Apple’s Time Machine Obliterates my Data When It is Most Needed (Restore)
2017-01-25 Touchbar MacBook Pro not Rated for Colder than 50°F — Serious Design Flaw for Active Users?
2017-01-15 Bill Atkinson’s “Photo Card” for iPhone/iPad: Tangible Internet-Age Postcards
2017-01-10 macOS BloatWare (and what feels like SpyWare)
2017-01-10 Safari Seems Less Stable in macOS 10.12.2
2017-01-10 Adobe Memory Usage, with no apps in use
2017-01-09 The GPU remains a Science Fair Project
2017-01-08 Crapware in macOS
2017-01-03 Apple Core Rot: PDF Support
2016
2016-12-23 iTunes and iPhone: Which Phone?
2016-12-23 How to Remove Apple Crapware. Or Not, Thanks to Apple’s New Lockdown
2016-12-23 2016 MacBook Pro: Design by Dilettantes?
2016-12-22 Reader Comment: “Bloomberg piece goes hand-in-hand with today’s article that you posted”
2016-12-22 How Can Apple Mail Possibly need 3.1 GB of Memory?
2016-12-19 Almost in 2018, Computers Are not Getting Faster in a Meaningful Way, GPU is Half-Baked Tech, Too Many Software Developers Suck
2016-12-13 macOS 10.12.2 Update
2016-12-13 Two-Factory Security for macOS
2016-12-07 2016 MacBook Pro: Cannot Sustain Performance Under Load — Update
2016-12-06 OWC Introduces Redesigned Mercury Elite Pro Dual with Thunderbolt 2 Technology + SALE on “Gen 1” Version
2016-12-03 2016 MacBook Pro: Cannot Sustain Performance Under Load
2016-11-29 Apple Mail Calendar Spam
2016-11-18 Apple iPhone Secretly Uploading Call Logs when iCloud is Enabled?
2016-10-31 Saving 5GB or so from iTunes
2016-10-27 macOS Sierra 10.12.1: Data Loss + Breaking Backup Protocols is Now a Feature?
2016-10-27 New Apple MacBook Pro (updated with comments, updated again with solutions)
2016-10-21 Apple iPhone 7 Caution Was Warranted: GSM-only model has Inferior LTE Performance
2016-10-15 Reader Question: can Siri be disabled on an iPhone?
2016-10-13 iPhone 7 in Jet Black: MUCH Better Grip in the Hand + SIM-Free iPhone 7 Now Available
2016-10-12 macOS Sierra: Apple Mail Continues to Have Severe Performance Issues, plus crashes
2016-10-08 diglloydTools: Current version Works with macOS Sierra (no update needed)
2016-10-07 macOS Sierra: Crashes Viewing Folders with Images (while selecting them)
2016-09-30 macOS Sierra: Possible Data Loss Scenario
2016-09-23 macOS Sierra: Cannot Copy/Paste Properly
2016-09-23 iOS 10 Supports Color Spaces
2016-09-21 macOS Sierra: Compatibility Issues
2016-09-21 A Question for Readers: How to Print iPhone Photos
2016-09-20 macOS Sierra: Stable Release
2016-09-20 macOS Sierra: Severe Apple Mail Performance Problems
2016-09-12 iPhone 7: Apple will not sell unlocked iPhone with both GSM and CDMA, but maybe in a a few weeks
2016-09-12 Altitude on iPhone: ProAltimeter app
2016-09-11 macOS Sierra: Uneventful Upgrade for MacBook Pro Retina
2016-09-11 Startup Key combinations for Intel-Based Macs
2016-09-10 What I Want in an iPhone: Dual Carrier Support Simultaneously
2016-09-10 Excellent Search Tool: HoudahSpot
2016-09-09 Apple iPhone 7: can an Unlocked Model Actually be Bought at Apple Store?
2016-09-09 Apple iPhone 7 Caution: GSM-only model lacks CDMA network support, precluding future use with Verizon or Sprint
2016-09-09 An uncomfortable 2 Days with Amazon Dash Buttons
2016-09-08 macOS Sierra: Some Small Issues, but Mostly Good So Far
2016-09-07 Apple iPhone 7: New Features I Like
2016-09-06 NewerTech NuGuard KX Case for iPhone 7 / iPhone 7 Plus (saved my iPhone 6s Plus several times)
2016-09-02 Risky “Zero Day” Exploit Bugs Fixed in iOS 9.3.5 for iPhone, also in OS X
2016-08-30 iPhone Software Update Failure: ‘“Not enough free space is available on this computer” (8.81TB not enough space for 0.128 TB iPhone)
2016-08-15 Emojis in File Names on macOS
2016-08-14 java.nio.file.Path and java.io.File Forward Slash and Backward Slash in File Names on HFS+ and FAT or ExFat File Systems
2016-08-01 “Not Connected to Internet” after Waking from Sleep in OS X 10.11.6
2016-07-19 macOS 10.11.6 Issue with Pegasus?
2016-07-18 Apple Breaks Thunderbolt Networking in OS X 10.11.6?
2016-07-11 Finder Setting for Generic Icons or Custom Icons Based on Content
2016-07-08 iPhone Panoramas In Depth: Shooting & Post Processing Tips, Numerous Examples up to 11K Resolution
2016-07-08 Apple Still Cannot Tell Time
2016-07-08 Apple Knows Better: Your Needs as a Traditional Mac User do not Matter — Has Apple Abandoned the Creative Community?
2016-07-06 My iPhone 6s Plus Saved From Cracking Again by NewerTech NuGuard KX Case
2016-06-16 OS X Sierra
2016-05-28 How to get a Better Idea of Memory Usage: Purge the OS X File System Buffer Cache
2016-05-27 More OS X Open-File Bugs: QuickLookSatellite, Apple Mail, Ghost Applications, Trash Will Not Empty
2016-05-25 OS X Bug: QuickLookSatellite Opens Files and Never Closes Them, Causing Wide-Ranging Errors
2016-05-17 When Software Crashes It is Immensely Frustrating: Why is Lightroom Crashing?
2016-05-17 Lightning Cable for iPhone/iPad Keep Breaking? Tudia Klip Might Help
2016-05-10 OS X: How to Fix Hang in Image Capture Utility
2016-05-01 Do you have 2 “iPad devices”?
2016-04-27 What’s all the Fuss About iPhone Security Anyway?
2016-04-11 OWC Announces SoftRAID 5.5: allows users to convert Apple RAID volumes to SoftRAID
2016-04-05 Thunderbolt on OS X: Spontaneous Drive Disconnect
2016-03-24 iOS 9.3: Setting up NightShift feature, to Help Sleep
2016-03-07 OS X Malware: Ransomware Encrypts Data, Demands Payment to Recover
2016-02-29 Apple Breaks Ethernet in OS X El Capitan
2016-02-17 Apple in PR Denial even as Apple Core Rot Spreads
2016-02-04 Thunderbolt Networking: Very Poor Performance with Sustained Usage
2016-02-03 OS X El Capitan Finder: “The operation can’t be completed because one or more required items can’t be found. (Error Code-43)”
2016-01-21 OS X 10.11.3: iMac 5K Screen Black Screen —Will not Wake Up From Sleep
2016-01-21 OS X 10.11.3: Three Displays now Sleep/Wake Properly (UPDATE: worse than ever)
2016-01-02 Modifying the NewerTech NuGuard KX Case for iPhone 6s, 6s Plus with a Knife and Scissors
2016-01-02 Apple Core Rot: Spotlight Cannot Find File Names
2015
2015-12-31 OWC Envoy Pro Mini 480GB Ultra-Portable SSD (Thumb Drive) as an OS X Boot Drive
2015-12-23 Web Browser Cookies + OS X El Capitan: Safari Cookie Security?
2015-12-21 Handy items for Charging, Connecting, etc
2015-12-21 $150 Off Apple Watch
2015-12-19 A Troublesome Security and Privacy Flaw: Apple Mail Auto-Complete + How to Delete Unwanted Recipients
2015-12-12 Walkthrough: How to make a RAID Stripe Using SoftRAID 5.1
2015-12-12 Don Norman and Bruce Tognazzini: How Apple Is Giving Design A Bad Name
2015-12-10 More Apple Core Rot: Apple Mail Still Broken + More Views
2015-12-09 Apple Core Rot: Little Things are not Little Things (iOS Image Display)
2015-12-07 Reconfiguring Storage to use 8TB Drives, Data Integrity Critical
2015-12-06 Time Machine does not show all the items that are excluded!
2015-12-03 Reader Comment: Apple Core Rot
2015-11-19 Disk Utility Has No RAID Support in OS X El Capitan but OWC Has SoftRAID Lite for only $34
2015-11-16 Apple OS X El Capitan Cannot Tell Time
2015-11-14 OWC Announces SoftRAID 5.1, and SoftRAID Lite
2015-11-14 Apple Core Rot: How Many com.apple.audio Helper Processes Does One Need, Exactly?
2015-11-13 Beware of Apple Mail Photo Quality: Resizing of Outgoing Images
2015-11-12 One of the Most Confusing Finder Preferences
2015-11-12 Apple Core Rot Remains in App Store : OS X Sporadically Fails to Update Apps
2015-11-06 Apple’s DCI(P3) Color Gamut Improves Upon Longstanding Marginal Gamut, Yet Makes Little Sense in Context for Amateurs or Pros
2015-11-05 30-bit Color Support in OS X El Capitan with Dual NEC Wide Gamut Display + 32-bit Color
2015-10-31 OWC Thunderbay 4 Deal: 20TB RAID-5 Edition Deal: now with Spare 5TB Drive
2015-10-30 10-bit Graphics Support in OS X El Capitan: Adobe Confirms Support is Coming for Photoshop
2015-10-25 Those Annoying Late Night Machine Wake-Ups
2015-10-24 Reader Question: Spin-Up Delay with Hard Drives
2015-10-21 Apple Core Rot now featured in App Store : OS X Cannot Update Itself Properly
2015-10-16 OWC Thunderbay 4 Deal: 20TB RAID-5 Edition Deal: now with Spare 5TB Drive
2015-10-16 Checking RAID-1 Mirror Status in OS X El Capitan (now that DiskUtility is toast for RAID)
2015-10-15 Reader Question: How to Approach El Capitan
2015-10-15 Reader Comment: Adobe Quality Control an Issue?
2015-10-15 OS X El Capitan Breaks Time Machine
2015-10-13 OS X El Capitan: Image Capture Now Hangs Sometimes
2015-10-09 OS X El Capitan: Worst OS Release Yet
2015-10-08 iPhone 6s Plus: can it work Like a Real GPS Unit?
2015-10-08 iPhone 6s Plus: Dubious Cell Reception
2015-10-08 OS X El Capitan: Disk Utility “designed by morons” design ethic + RAID Support Removed + Wanton Bugs
2015-10-08 Apple Kills Off RAID Support in OS X El Capitan, Leaving Users Dangling in the Wind: SoftRAID is the Solution Now
2015-10-07 diglloydTools: Working Fine on El Capitan
2015-10-07 OS X El Capitan: Installed
2015-10-07 Brand-New iPhone 6s Plus with iOS 9.0.2: “No Service” Bug Takes Phone Offline
2015-10-04 Downloading the 6GB OS X El Capitan Release via an iPhone High in the Mountains
2015-09-30 OS X El Capitan Out Soon (next major OS release)
2015-09-24 NewerTech NuGuard KX Case for iPhone 6s, 6s Plus
2015-09-24 Apple iPhone Core Rot: Apple Breaks Personal Hotspot in iOS 9.0.1 + HOW TO FIX
2015-09-23 Will Apple Core Rot Trend be Reversed?
2015-09-14 Upgrading to an iPhone 6s Plus: all AT&T “deals” are the same bitter pill with a bit more or less sugar coating
2015-08-18 Charging iPhone, iPad, any USB-Chargeable Device: Lupine USB One
2015-08-16 Apple ID Account Hassles Continue
2015-08-08 More Apple Core Rot: Finder Sluggish Since 10.10.4 Update
2015-07-01 OS X 10.10.4 Now Supports 'TRIM' for 3rd-party SSDs
2015-07-01 Apple Releases OS X 10.10.4
2015-06-30 UPDATE: Your Passwords are at Risk with OS X and iOS?
2015-06-18 Mini Review: 2015 Apple MacBook
2015-06-18 All your passwords at risk with OS X and iOS, and Apple Sits on the Problem
2015-06-12 USB-Charging your iPad, iPhone, Cameras in the Car, Colored Lightning Cables
2015-05-26 OS X Yosemite May Drop Unstable 'discoveryd' and Restore mDNSResponder
2015-05-23 Apple Photos: Nuisance Behavior by Design
2015-05-04 The Best Way to use Apple’s Photos App
2015-04-27 Apple Pro Video Updates: Endless Repeated Updates
2015-04-10 Apple Watch is Out and In Crazy Demand, What’s it For?
2015-04-08 OS X 10.10.3 Security Updates
2015-04-07 SoftRAID 5.0.7 Delivers Performance Enhancements
2015-04-07 Apple Core Rot: Runaway Spotlight (mds_stores Process)
2015-03-22 OS X Security: Various Developments
2015-03-22 Apple: A Trillion Dollar Company Dominating Personal Electronics, Cars and (incidentally) Computers
2015-03-04 OS X and Malware
2015-02-15 How to Prioritize Network Interfaces for Peak Performance
2015-02-12 With the Coming of the Apple Watch, Digital Monitoring is the Next Big Thing
2015-02-12 Reader Comment: Apple Core Rot
2015-02-12 Our Toaster Failed, and we want another one just like it
2015-02-06 Drives Unmounting After Sleep in OS X Yosemite?
2015-02-04 Apple Core Rot and Safari Issues
2015-02-02 SoftRAID 5.0.6 Released With Important Fixes
2015-01-29 MacWorld: Wi-Fi issues continue to hamper OS X users despite updates
2015-01-29 ArsTechnica: Why DNS in OS X 10.10 is broken, and what you can do to fix it
2015-01-29 Apple Lightning Cables (for iPhone, etc)
2015-01-28 Continuing Performance Issues in Apple OS X Yosemite, Particularly in Photoshop
2015-01-28 Apple OS X 10.10.2: Many Bug Fixes Along with Fresh Manure
2015-01-22 Hard Drive Reliability
2015-01-22 Apple Core Rot: More Views
2015-01-09 Spotlight Builds in a Feature Spammers Could Only Dream About
2015-01-09 Possible Work-Around for Spotlight Privacy/Security bug of Indexing Spam Email
2015-01-06 Arment: “Apple Has Lost the Functional High Ground” and then regrets
2015-01-05 New CPU Options / Revised Mac Pro?
2015-01-04 Pathological Network Performance in Apple OS X
2015-01-03 Spotlight: Brain-Dead Search Priorities
2014
2014-12-29 iTunes Won’t Sync Any Contacts to iPhone
2014-12-26 Apple Core Rot
2014-12-23 Troubling Precedent: Apple Pushes Security Update Without User Permission (NTP Security Flaw)
2014-12-21 Thunderbolt EFI Exploit
2014-11-25 A Pseudo-Security Trend: Password Reset and Locked Accounts
2014-11-24 OS X Yosemite Update (10.1): Regularly Deletes the AppleMail VIP List
2014-11-21 SoftRAID 5.0.5 Released
2014-11-21 OS X Yosemite Finder File Copy: Data Loss
2014-11-21 Any Kind of RAID is Easy with SoftRAID
2014-11-19 OS X Yosemite: Update the SoftRAID Driver
2014-11-19 OS X Yosemite: Problems From “system cleanup” Software
2014-11-19 OS X Yosemite: Apple Kills TRIM for 3rd-Party SSDs, Renders System Unbootable
2014-11-18 OS X Yosemite: Disable WiFi if Using Gigabit Ethernet
2014-11-18 OS X Yosemite Deletes Java / JDK, but Photoshop Needs It
2014-11-17 OS X Yosemite Update (10.1): Destroys Apple Mail VIP List Again
2014-11-13 iPhone / iPad: New Security Risks Emerge
2014-11-13 OS X Yosemite Deletes VIP list in Apple Mail
2014-11-05 When the iPhone and Three Nearby Computers all Ring for a Phone Call, and is this a Privacy Issue?
2014-11-05 Apple iCloud: Promiscous Saving for Security Lapses
2014-11-04 OS X Yosemite Deletes VIP list in Apple Mail
2014-11-03 Static Problems on Input/Output with Some Macs?
2014-11-02 diglloydTools DiskTester, IntegrityChecker, MemoryTester — Works Fine on OS X Yosemite
2014-11-02 OS X Yosemite: Severe Performance Issues with File Open Dialog
2014-11-01 Transparency in OS X Yosemite
2014-10-20 Search Terms in OS X Yosemite Get Sent to Apple
2014-10-20 OS X Yosemite: Severe Performance Issues with File Open Dialog
2014-10-20 OS X Yosemite: Full Screen Mode Continues to be Anti-Functional for Dual Displays
2014-10-19 OS X Yosemite: Switched to it on my Main Machine
2014-10-16 OS X Yosemite: Screen Bleed-Through for Images Impairs Perception
2014-10-16 OS X Yosemite: Disable Transparency
2014-10-08 iPhone Features, AT&T vs Verizon
2014-10-07 Patches for 'bash' Shell Vulnerability
2014-10-07 Driving and iPhone or Siri Do Not Mix
2014-10-06 Radio Frequency (RF) Exposure from Apple iPhone 6
2014-10-05 Internet Speed is an End-To-End “Up To” Concept, not a Consistent Quantity
2014-09-13 What does an iPhone 6 Plus cost?
2014-09-09 The new Apple iPhone: Display Zoom on Larger Model Attractive
2014-09-02 On Nude Selfies and Celebrities
2014-08-31 Cell Phone Kill Switches
2014-06-27 Apple to End 'Aperture' Support
2014-06-03 FIXED in 10.9.3: OS X File System Hang Bug
2014-05-23 OS X 10.9.3 Fixes 90° Screen Rotation Bugs
2014-05-22 United Airlines WiFi: Google Chrome and Firefox Work, Safari DOA
2014-03-31 OS X File System Hang Bug
2014-03-14 CalDigit Thunderbolt Station Adds Support for iPhone/iPad Charging + Apple Superdrive
2014-03-13 OS X 10.9.2 bug with 90° Screen Rotation Reportedly Fixed in OS X 10.9.3 Beta
2014-03-10 OS X 10.9.2 Breaks Display Support with NEC Displays: Sleep, 90° Rotation Failure
2014-03-07 2013 Mac Pro: Dual Displays Problematic
2014-02-25 OS X 10.9.2 Reportedly Fixes the TLS/SSL Security Bug
2014-02-22 Major Security Flaw in Apple iOS and Apple OS X, Involves Fundamental TLS / SSL Security Protocols
2014-02-13 One of Many Mavericks Bugs: Column Widths in Finder, Open/Save Dialogs
2014-01-02 OS Mavericks 'App Nap' Kills Photoshop Performance
2014-01-02 Mac Pro Energy Savings: What is the Reality?
2013
2013-12-31 OWC 'Area 51' Blowout Sale (all sorts of stuff, cases for iPhone, iPod too)
2013-12-25 AT&T Text Messaging: Can it be Disabled?
2013-12-19 It’s Amateur Hour at Apple
2013-12-17 PowerRocks 'MagicStick' Portable Battery for iPhone , iPod, other phones
2013-11-24 Are Thunderbolt Product Choices Poised to Balloon in Variety, Availability, Scope?
2013-11-06 OS X Mavericks: Not Recommended At Present
2013-10-28 OS X Mavericks and Safari
2013-10-28 Copying an Email Address Without the Extra Crufty Adornments (AddressesIncludeNameOnPasteboard)
2013-10-26 Minor Update for diglloydTools for OS X Mavericks
2013-10-25 Comments on OS X Mavericks
2013-10-14 iPad Mini: Why is it Not a Phone Also?
2013-10-14 Settings Panel for iPhone
2013-10-13 Grip and Shock Damage Protection for iPhone 4/4s/5/5s, Color Choices in NuGard KX
2013-10-10 Switched to iPhone 5s from 4s
2013-10-08 Install the Driver for the OWC Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD (OS X Cuts Power Prematurely to PCIe)
2013-10-07 OS X Mavericks and diglloydTools
2013-10-07 Caution When Upgrading to OS X Mavericks: Kernel Extensions (ATTO, Drobo)
2013-10-03 Best Alarm Sound on iOS 7
2013-09-30 OS X 10.8.5 and OWC Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD Issue (Kernel Panic from Sleep)
2013-09-25 Apple iOS 7: iPhone Accessibility / Legibility Tips
2013-09-24 iPhone 5s vs Nokia Lumia 1020 Camera Phones
2013-09-23 Grip and Shock Damage Protection for iPhone 5/5s
2013-09-23 Apple iOS 7: Type Weight and Size Impairs Usability, Presbyopia and Vision Issues
2013-09-07 OS X Mavericks and diglloydTools
2013-08-10 Newer Technology 'NuGuard KX Mini' Drop-Protection Case for Apple iPad Mini
2013-07-14 iPhone Case: Grip and Shock Damage Protection: NewerTech NuGuard KX Case
2013-06-12 OS X 10.9 'Mavericks' — 64GB *NO GOOD* on 4/6-core Mac Pro
2013-06-12 Apple iOS 7 Icons
2013-06-12 Apple iOS 7
2013-06-11 OS X 10.9 'Mavericks' Supports 128GB — Confirmed
2013-06-11 2013 Apple Mac Pro: CPU Choices Predictions
2013-05-23 The Implications of a Centralized App Store and Centralization in General: Single Point of Failure
2013-05-05 Shock Resistance: NewerTech NuGuard KX Case for Apple iPhone 4/5
2013-05-01 The Commercialization of Digital Spying
2013-04-27 Screen Glitch: OS X 10.8.3 Issue?
2013-03-20 Intel X25 SSD Needs Firmware Update to be Compatible with OS X 10.8.3 ?
2013-02-15 The Crash from 'File:///' — More Broadly What Are These Keyboard Sniffer Hooks Doing in a System-wide OS X API?
2013-02-13 Tidbits: How Apple Doesn’t Respect Its Users
2013-02-10 Core Rot at Apple? and Interview on 'The Tech Night Owl'
2013-01-23 Core Rot at Apple?
2012
2012-12-01 How to Show / Unhide the Library Folder in Your Home Directory (Mac OS X)
2012-11-18 Reader Question: DiskTester and OS X Cache
2012-11-03 Disk Utility (Fusion Version)— Cannot Handle Two Internal Drives in MacMini
2012-07-28 Network Copy Errors (.DS_Store) with OS X Mountain Lion
2012-07-25 Mac OS X Mountain Lion: Application Signing “unidentified developer”
2012-07-25 Mac OS X Mountain Lion Notes
2012-07-11 Mac OS X Mountain Lion Coming Soon (and some advice)
2012-07-10 Verify/Repair a RAID Volume in Mac OS X Lion (Disk Utility won’t work)
2012-07-03 Zombie Messages on iPhone
2012-05-23 Update on SoftRAID and Mac OS X 10.7.4 Volume Mounting
2012-05-11 Mac OS X 10.7.4: Apple Mail Rainbow Beachball
2012-05-11 Issue with Mac OS X 10.7.4 and Volume Mounting?
2012-02-20 How OS X Sandboxing Affects Developers
2012-02-18 ZFS for Mac OS X — ZEVO
2012-02-16 What Are the Implications for Application Signing?
2012-02-16 The iOS-ification of Mac OS X — Mac OS X 'Mountain Lion' — Feeling Like Prey Now
2012-02-06 The iOS-ification of Mac OS X
2012-01-06 OWC 16GB Memory Modules for 2009/2010 Mac Pro — 48GB / 96GB in Mac Pro
2011
2011-12-10 Installing Mac OS X Snow Leopard on an Apple Mac Pro That Shipped with Lion
2011-12-01 End of Life for the Apple Mac Pro? Still no word from Apple
2011-11-01 End of Life for the Apple Mac Pro?
2011-10-27 Apple iPhone 4S Experience
2011-10-20 Apple iPhone 4S Issues and Comments
2011-10-10 Yes, diglloydTools Works on Mac OS X Lion (and Mountain Lion)
2011-10-08 I’ve ordered my iPhone 4S, and What About Two Networks at Once?
2011-09-15 Mac OS X Lion and Full Screen Mode
2011-09-10 An Impressive Experience At The Apple Store With the iPhone
2011-08-17 Mac OS X Lion: Unable to Print With Epson Stylus Pro 3800
2011-08-08 Mac OS X Lion Hairballs
2011-07-24 Mac OS X Lion and diglloydTools
2011-07-23 Software RAID Works on Lion, But Apple Has Broken Basic Functionality
2011-07-21 Protocol for Upgrading to Mac OS X Lion
2011-07-20 Apple OS X 'Lion' Comments
2011-05-04 Remote Access To Photoshop via iPhone, iPad
2011-04-27 Update on Apple Tracking Data on iPhone, iPad
2011-04-25 Is Apple Tracking Your Movements Via Your iPhone (and iPad)?
2011-03-22 Mac OS X 10.6.7 Update Fixes Black Screen Issue For NEC Displays
2011-03-22 Anti-virus on Mac OS X— Vulnerabilities
2011-03-22 AT&T Extorts More Money For iPhone Data Already Paid For, Threatens To Cut Access
2011-03-19 Final Cut Pro Dropped Frames and Anti-Virus Software on Mac OS X
2011-03-05 Apple SSD TRIM Status on Mac OS X 10.6.6 With 2011 MacBook Pro
2011-02-15 Photoshop Performance: Beware of Memory Usage and Mac OS X Cache
2011-01-23 iPhone and Zombie Emails, Verizon iPhone
2010
2010-11-29 AT&T Customer Service = Oxymoron
2010-07-16 Speed of internal SATA Ports with Mac OS X
2010-06-30 Photoshop CS5 Crashing With OS X 10.6.4 with ATI Radeon 4870 and OpenGL on Mac Pro