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2023-09-23 macOS Ventura Breaks Bluetooth Pairing— “not supported”
2023-09-20 Reader Comment: Adobe Photoshop Forcing Unwanted macOS System 'Upgrades'
2023-08-07 Some Praise of 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra and (mostly) macOS Ventura
2023-08-01 How Apple Breaks Far Too Many Web Sites from Working Properly — “Enable Content Blockers”
2023-07-24 How to Fix Pesky Problem of No Access to Your Own Volumes at the Top Level
2023-07-21 macOS Ventura: 'Vampire' GPU Usage — 1 to 25% of GPU used when Nothing is Happening
2023-07-21 macOS Ventura: Screen Capture of 2nd Display at 1/2 Resolution, Not Full-Res
2023-07-21 macOS Ventura: Command Key Window Shortcuts in Terminal Frequently Stop Working
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2023-07-21 Adobe Photoshop: Blank Windows on macOS Ventura
2022-12-26 Sony Imaging Edge: Incompatible with macOS Mojave
2022-01-26 Adobe: “OpenCL and OpenGL are dead on macOS”
2022-01-22 macOS Monterey Displaying some DNG Files with massive Color Smearing / Desaturation
2021-10-26 Adobe Photoshop 2022 — Bye Bye to macOS Mojave Support
2020-12-08 PhaseONE Capture One: “Capture One DOES NOT Currently Support OS 11 Big Sur”
2020-05-12 Apple Safari Web Browser Mangles Large Image on the Latest macOS 10.14.6 Mojave
2020-03-15 Rocking Fast 10-core iMac Pro with 256GB memory that Runs macOS High Sierra
2019-11-14 Nasty Surprise with Apple Software Update: NEC PA302W will no longer Work (UPDATE: how to fix it)
2018-02-27 Thinking About the Apple iMac Pro? Caution Advised
2018-01-07 Testing the Apple iMac Pro + macOS Compatibility Issues with Zerene Stacker and Iridient Developer
2017-12-19 Sony A7R III: Updating the Firmware on macOS High Sierra
Understanding Storage and Hard Drives
How to erase and partition drives..
Using Apple Time Machine for Backup
How to use Apple Time Machine for Data Safety.
RAID
Various types of RAID setups..
Software RAID with SoftRAID
Making software RAID volumes..
How To Guides
How to perform useful tasks and upgrades..
Setting Up Your Mac
Suggestions for setting up your Mac for performance and data safety..
Easy Thunderbolt Networking (10 Gigabit)
Networking as fast as an SSD!.
Setting Up Your Mac For Better Security
Reduce the chances of security breaches..
Strange but True: Photoshop CS5 Performance
What you should know about CS5 performance..
Optimizing Photoshop CS4 Performance
How to configure a Mac to maximize Photoshop CS3/CS4 performance..
Optimizing Other Photography Software
Speedups for working with images..
Mac Performance 101: Cores, Processes, Memory
Monitoring tips and application CPU core scorecard..
Choosing and Configuring a Mac
An in-depth look at how to find the right Mac setup for you.
OS X 10.9 Mavericks
Significant changes and issues in OS X 10.9 Mavericks.
OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
Mountain Lion tips and how-to..
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
Special Report: Upgrade Now or Wait?.
Mac Trials and Tribulations
Headaches and hassles encountered with OS X..
Mac OS X Lion Hairballs
When an upgrade brings more downgrades and bugs than value..
OWC SSDs, Various
Various SATA and USB SSDs..
SPECIAL REPORT: Real World SSD Performance
Many brands of solid state drives put on a good show when new, but some degrade with use..
Solid State Drives (SSD)
Choosing and using solid state drives..
Apple MacBook Pro Quad-Core (February 2011)
A review of Apple’s first quad-core laptop..
Mac Pro Memory
2009/2010 Mac Pro Memory — How Much for Performance?.
Drives and Expansion and Various
Reviews of various hardware and software..
Mac Pro Early 2009 (Nehalem)
Configuring and optimizing..
Desktop Hard Drives
Performance and use..
Core Rot at Apple
The worrisome decline of OS X quality and integrity..
Blog posts
2023
2023-09-23 macOS Ventura Breaks Bluetooth Pairing— “not supported”
2023-09-20 Reader Comment: Adobe Photoshop Forcing Unwanted macOS System 'Upgrades'
2023-08-07 Some Praise of 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra and (mostly) macOS Ventura
2023-08-01 How Apple Breaks Far Too Many Web Sites from Working Properly — “Enable Content Blockers”
2023-07-24 How to Fix Pesky Problem of No Access to Your Own Volumes at the Top Level
2023-07-21 macOS Ventura: 'Vampire' GPU Usage — 1 to 25% of GPU used when Nothing is Happening
2023-07-21 macOS Ventura: Screen Capture of 2nd Display at 1/2 Resolution, Not Full-Res
2023-07-21 macOS Ventura: Command Key Window Shortcuts in Terminal Frequently Stop Working
2023-07-20 macOS Ventura 'upgrade' Destroys My User Account, Forces Recovery
2023-07-16 Workaround for the Kernel Panic with M2 Macs: File Sharing via 10 Gigabit Ethernet
2023-07-16 macOS Ventura: Memory Leak in QuickLookSatellite?
2023-07-15 macOS Ventura Setup on 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra — kills an entire work day
2023-07-15 macOS Ventura: Command Key Window Shortcuts in Terminal Still Broken with 2 displays
2023-05-18 macOS Ventura 13.4 Brings Important Bug Fix for Apple Silicon SoftRAID Users
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
2023-02-17 Zero-Day Exploits for macOS, iOS Could Cost you Your Life Savings, Identity Theft, etc.
2023-02-15 macOS Ventura: Finder Display of File/Folder Dates with Time in Seconds
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
2022
2022-11-25 macos Bug for Launch Daemons in launchctl: posix_spawn ... Operation not permitted error 1
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
2022-04-23 Reader Question: “Will DiglloydTools work with macOS Monterey?”
2022-03-02 macOS Monterey Locks Me Out of my 2019 Mac Pro after Reboot, Repudiating my Login Password
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
2021
2021-12-27 MacOS Big Sur Dec 14 Update: Reboots 2019 Mac Pro Continually
2021-11-02 Will Apple Ever Fix the Kernel Panic Problems in macOS?
2021-10-20 Apple Core Rot: Safari No Longer Preloads Tabs on macOS Big Sur
2021-10-16 macOS: 3+ CPU Cores for up to several minutes after Rebooting
2021-10-05 Apple Safari Tab Bar Colorization: How to Disable
2021-10-05 Years Later, macOS Big Sur leaves Major Disk I/O Performance Bug Unfixed
2021-10-04 Checking for Data Corruption after macOS Hoses Your System
2021-10-04 macOS Big Sur Locks Me Out of my 2019 Mac Pro after Kernel Panic, Repudiating my Login Password
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
2021-07-30 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
2021-05-18 Reader Comment: sticking with Mac vs transitioning to a PC
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
2021-04-15 Apple Image Capture in macOS Big Sur: Degraded and Broken
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)
2021-03-05 Apple Core Rot: the Arrogance of Apple User Interface Design in macOS Big Sur
2021-03-01 diglloydTools and IntegrityChecker Java Working Fine on macOS Big Sur
2021-03-01 “Upgraded” to macOS Big Sur on 2019 Mac Pro — No Workflow Benefits, All Downside So Far
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
2020-12-16 Professionals should NEVER Upgrade a Production Machine with a Major macOS Release
2020-11-27 Apple Spyware in macOS Big Sur Cannot be Disabled (“sneak.berlin: Your Computer Isn’t Yours”)
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
2020-10-06 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
2020-10-04 Apple Core Rot: macOS Mojave Supplemental Update
2020-09-19 Apple Core Rot: iOS 14 and macOS Safari Update Bring Treasure Trove of New Bugs
2020-07-16 macOS Catalina 10.15.6 Update: Whacks Software Update Preferences, turns Everything On
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
2020-04-17 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
2020-03-30 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: Loads of Crapware Chewing up Memory and Sometimes CPU Cycles, Adobe Does it Too
2020-02-21 macOS Catalina: System Sleep Frequently Fails
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 Disables all of my Samsung T5 Backup Drives
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
2020-01-31 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 Reader Comment: 2018 Mac mini with macOS Catalina Will Not Boot with eGPU
2020-01-20 Upgrading from macOS Catalina to macOS Mojave (“downgrading” to macOS Mojave)
2020-01-19 How to Add File/Folder Access Permissions for Java in macOS Catalina
2020-01-19 How to Add File/Folder Access Permissions in macOS Catalina, including Full Disk Access
2020-01-18 Apple Core Rot: macOS Catalina Fails to Update Critical Security Settings
2020-01-18 Caution for Those Working with Color-Calibrated Displays: macOS Catalina Resets Display Profile
2020-01-18 Reader Comments: macOS Catalina vs Mojave, Drive Initialization Hanging/Crashing
2020-01-02 2019 Mac Pro: Hardware Elegance, macOS Crapalina Belongs in the Toilet
2019
2019-12-19 macOS Catalina: Costly 'Upgrade' for Those with 32-Bit Software
2019-11-26 macOS and iOS: How to Exclude the Wrong WiFi Network
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
2019-09-03 Copying Files in macOS Can Truncate File Date/Time to One-Second Granularity
2019-08-30 Apple Support Cost My Client Dearly
2019-08-28 How to Show or Hide Hidden Files in macOS Finder
2019-06-20 Apple Core Rot: iTunes Bugs
2019-06-20 Apple Core Rot: macOS Finder Shows Bogus Files s Not Yet Copied 18 Hours Later
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
2019-03-01 Apple Apparently IGNORES Researcher’s Report of 0-Day Exploit for macOS KeyChain
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
2019-02-11 Apple Core Rot: Apple Mail hangs for an Hour or More
2019-01-27 Apple Core Rot Metadata Loss: macOS Finder Destroys File Dates When Moving Files
2018
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
2018-06-29 Another Finder Data Loss Bug
2018-05-30 Upgrading to macOS High Sierra Without the Forcible “Upgrade” to APFS
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
2018-01-30 Reader Question: Time to Move to High Sierra?
2018-01-17 SoftRAID Updated to Fix Issue with macOS 10.13 High Sierra
2018-01-17 macOS 10.13.2 and Disk Utility = Atrocious Bug-Ridden Disaster
2018-01-11 Apple Quality Control: Enough is Enough
2018-01-10 Nasty macOS High Sierra Bug: Unlock AppStore Preferences with *any* Password
2017
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
2017-11-27 Time Machine and APFS: Local Backups
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
2017-11-06 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 Out of Space on your 2010-2015 MacBook Pro? SSD Prices Highly Attractive for Upgrading SSD Capacity
2017-10-05 macOS HighSierra: APFS Conversion of Boot Drive SSD
2017-10-05 macOS HighSierra: Brief Use Brings Relief in a Way: Worth Ignoring for a While
2017-09-17 macOS High Sierra: Apple’s Technote on APFS is Both Confusing and Possibly Incorrect
2017-09-10 macOS High Sierra: Caution Advised
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 Save Big Bucks on 64GB Memory for 2017 iMac 5K
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
2017-06-20 macOS Thunderbolt 10 Gigabit Networking Still Not Ready for Prime Time
2017-06-19 Does macOS 10.12.5 Break Gigabit Ethernet?
2017-05-15 macOS 10.12.5 Update
2017-04-07 How to Disable All Push Notification Requests in Apple Safari
2017-04-07 Solution for sudo hang problem in macOS 10.12.4
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 Apple’s Time Machine Obliterates my Data When It is Most Needed (Restore)
2017-01-29 Finder Hangs While Copying
2017-01-10 Adobe Memory Usage, with no apps in use
2017-01-10 macOS BloatWare (and what feels like SpyWare)
2017-01-10 Safari Seems Less Stable in macOS 10.12.2
2017-01-08 Crapware in macOS
2016
2016-12-23 How to Remove Apple Crapware. Or Not, Thanks to Apple’s New Lockdown
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?
2016-12-13 Two-Factory Security for macOS
2016-12-13 macOS 10.12.2 Update
2016-11-29 Apple Mail Calendar Spam
2016-10-27 macOS Sierra 10.12.1: Data Loss + Breaking Backup Protocols is Now a Feature?
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
2016-09-21 macOS Sierra: Compatibility Issues
2016-09-20 macOS Sierra: Severe Apple Mail Performance Problems
2016-09-20 macOS Sierra: Stable Release
2016-09-11 macOS Sierra: Uneventful Upgrade for MacBook Pro Retina
2016-09-11 Startup Key combinations for Intel-Based Macs
2016-09-10 Excellent Search Tool: HoudahSpot
2016-09-08 macOS Sierra: Some Small Issues, but Mostly Good So Far
2016-09-02 Risky “Zero Day” Exploit Bugs Fixed in iOS 9.3.5 for iPhone, also in OS X
2016-08-15 Emojis in File Names on macOS
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
2016-06-16 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?
2016-05-10 OS X: How to Fix Hang in Image Capture Utility
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
2016-03-07 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
2016-01-21 OS X 10.11.3: Three Displays now Sleep/Wake Properly (UPDATE: worse than ever)
2016-01-21 OS X 10.11.3: iMac 5K Screen Black Screen —Will not Wake Up From Sleep
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?
2015-12-12 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
2015-12-07 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 Apple Core Rot: How Many com.apple.audio Helper Processes Does One Need, Exactly?
2015-11-14 OWC Announces SoftRAID 5.1, and SoftRAID Lite
2015-11-13 Beware of Apple Mail Photo Quality: Resizing of Outgoing Images
2015-11-12 Apple Core Rot Remains in App Store : OS X Sporadically Fails to Update Apps
2015-11-12 One of the Most Confusing Finder Preferences
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 OS X El Capitan Breaks Time Machine
2015-10-15 Reader Question: How to Approach El Capitan
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 OS X El Capitan: Disk Utility “designed by morons” design ethic + RAID Support Removed + Wanton Bugs
2015-10-07 diglloydTools: Working Fine on El Capitan
2015-10-07 OS X El Capitan: Installed
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)
2015-09-23 Will Apple Core Rot Trend be Reversed?
2015-08-08 More Apple Core Rot: Finder Sluggish Since 10.10.4 Update
2015-07-01 Apple Releases OS X 10.10.4
2015-07-01 OS X 10.10.4 Now Supports 'TRIM' for 3rd-party SSDs
2015-06-30 UPDATE: Your Passwords are at Risk with OS X and iOS?
2015-06-18 All your passwords at risk with OS X and iOS, and Apple Sits on the Problem
2015-05-26 OS X Yosemite May Drop Unstable 'discoveryd' and Restore mDNSResponder
2015-05-04 The Best Way to use Apple’s Photos App
2015-04-08 OS X 10.10.3 Security Updates
2015-04-07 SoftRAID 5.0.7 Delivers Performance Enhancements
2015-03-22 Apple: A Trillion Dollar Company Dominating Personal Electronics, Cars and (incidentally) Computers
2015-03-22 OS X Security: Various Developments
2015-03-04 OS X and Malware
2015-02-12 Reader Comment: Apple Core Rot
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 ArsTechnica: Why DNS in OS X 10.10 is broken, and what you can do to fix it
2015-01-29 MacWorld: Wi-Fi issues continue to hamper OS X users despite updates
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 Apple Core Rot: More Views
2015-01-09 Possible Work-Around for Spotlight Privacy/Security bug of Indexing Spam Email
2015-01-09 Spotlight Builds in a Feature Spammers Could Only Dream About
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)
2014-11-24 OS X Yosemite Update (10.1): Regularly Deletes the AppleMail VIP List
2014-11-21 Any Kind of RAID is Easy with SoftRAID
2014-11-21 SoftRAID 5.0.5 Released
2014-11-21 OS X Yosemite Finder File Copy: Data Loss
2014-11-19 OS X Yosemite: Problems From “system cleanup” Software
2014-11-19 OS X Yosemite: Update the SoftRAID Driver
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
2014-11-04 OS X Yosemite Deletes VIP list in Apple Mail
2014-11-02 OS X Yosemite: Severe Performance Issues with File Open Dialog
2014-11-02 diglloydTools DiskTester, IntegrityChecker, MemoryTester — Works Fine on OS X Yosemite
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: Disable Transparency
2014-10-16 OS X Yosemite: Screen Bleed-Through for Images Impairs Perception
2014-10-07 Patches for 'bash' Shell Vulnerability
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
2014-03-31 OS X File System Hang Bug
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
2013-12-19 It’s Amateur Hour at Apple
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
2013-10-08 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)
2013-09-30 OS X 10.8.5 and OWC Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD Issue (Kernel Panic from Sleep)
2013-09-07 OS X Mavericks and diglloydTools
2013-06-12 OS X 10.9 'Mavericks' — 64GB *NO GOOD* on 4/6-core Mac Pro
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
2013-05-01 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 ?
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)
2012-05-23 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
2011-10-10 Yes, diglloydTools Works on Mac OS X Lion (and Mountain Lion)
2011-09-15 Mac OS X Lion and Full Screen Mode
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
2011-03-22 Mac OS X 10.6.7 Update Fixes Black Screen Issue For NEC Displays
2011-03-22 Anti-virus on Mac OS X— Vulnerabilities
2011-03-19 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
2010
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