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2023-06-01 How to Create an Encrypted Volume on an SSD or Camera Card

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2021-10-05 Apple Safari Tab Bar Colorization: How to Disable

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2014-12-14 Topics Menu System

Cloning

How to utilize cloning for backup and other chores..

  1. How to Clone a Volume
  2. Naming Conventions When Cloning
  3. Using Cloning as a Backup Strategy
  4. Backing up High Capacity Storage: Partitioning for Practical Backup
  5. How to Safely Transfer Data or Verify Backups (IntegrityChecker)
  6. How to Verify Multiple Backups Simultaneously (IntegrityChecker)

Understanding Storage and Hard Drives

How to erase and partition drives..

  1. Terminology: Volume vs Drive
  2. How to Initialize or Erase a New or Existing Drive
  3. How to Partition Drives Into Multiple Volumes
  4. Validating a Hard Drive or SSD or RAID (DiskTester fill-volume)
  5. OWC DriveGuide Software

Drive Capacity and Speed

Larger drives are faster..

  1. Why You Need More Space Than You You Need
  2. Larger Hard Drives Are Faster Than Smaller Ones
  3. The Fastest 2TB Volume is on a 4TB Drive
  4. 4/5/6TB Hard Drives: Higher Capacity Boosts Real-World Performance
  5. Optimizing Hard Drive Capacity for High Performance

Using Apple Time Machine for Backup

How to use Apple Time Machine for Data Safety.

  1. Configuring Time Machine
  2. Choosing a Time Machine Backup Drive
  3. Restoring Files with Time Machine
  4. Best Practices with Time Machine
  5. Starting a Time Machine Backup When Desired
  6. Excluding Items from Time Machine Backup

Apple Dec 2013 Mac Pro

Choosing among 4/6/8/12 cores, GPUs, memory, flash..

  1. 2013 Mac Pro: How and Why to Partition the PCIe Flash Drive

networking

Tips for networking, internet, etc..

  1. How to Prioritize Network Interfaces for Peak Performance

How To Guides

How to perform useful tasks and upgrades..

  1. How to Capture the Screen or Window as an Image
  2. Finder Setting for Generic Icons or Custom Icons Based on Content
  3. How to boot off an external drive
  4. How to upgrade your system/boot drive
  5. How to Set the Startup Volume / Startup Drive/Disk
  6. How to Verify/Repair a RAID Volume
  7. How to detect a failing hard drive (SMART status)
  8. How to test memory for reliability
  9. How to install 6GB or 8GB memory in MacBook Pro
  10. How to Reset Apple Safari Saved Information
  11. How-To Disallow Saving Usernames/Passwords in Safari
  12. How-To Erase a Web Site Password in Safari or Firefox
  13. Moving Your Bookmarks to Another Computer
  14. How to Create a Group of Bookmarks in Safari
  15. Enabling the Developer / Debug Menu to Safari
  16. How to Change Date and Time Formats for Ease of Viewing
  17. How to Create and Use a RAM Disk
  18. How to See Disk Usage / Space Used
  19. How to use a Mac Pro as a Robust File Server
  20. How to Disable CPU cores

Setting Up Your Mac

Suggestions for setting up your Mac for performance and data safety..

  1. Sizing and Setting Up Your Mac Boot Drive
  2. Installing a Just-Right Mac System
  3. Separate Data from System and Applications
  4. High Performance Mac Configuration
  5. Testing Mac Memory and Drives
  6. Choosing the Right Mouse
  7. Boot With the 64-bit Kernel
  8. Set Finder Preferences
  9. System Preferences (General)
  10. How to Unhide your Library Folder on OS X
  11. Set a Two-button Mouse
  12. Keyboard Shortcuts
  13. Disable the Caps Lock key
  14. Declutter the Dock
  15. Turn Off iTunesHelper
  16. How to Exclude Items from Spotlight Search
  17. Apple Mail Unread Mailbox Setup
  18. Apple Mail VIP Feature: Multiple Emails for one Contact
  19. Time Machine for Always-on Backup
  20. Relocating the Home Directory Off the Boot Drive
  21. Relocating Mail Off the Boot Drive
  22. Relocating Documents Folder Off the Boot Drive
  23. Relocating iTunes and iPhoto Libraries

Easy Thunderbolt Networking (10 Gigabit)

Networking as fast as an SSD!.

  1. Thunderbolt 10-Gigabit Networking: Setting Up Between Macs
  2. Thunderbolt 10-Gigabit Networking: Real World Performance
  3. Thunderbolt 10-Gigabit Networking: Migration Assistant

Setting Up Your Mac For Better Security

Reduce the chances of security breaches..

  1. Set up a Normal User Account (and use it)
  2. Keep System Software Up To Date
  3. Disable Automatic Login
  4. Disable Incoming Internet Connections
  5. Disable Safari’s 'Open Safe Files by Default'
  6. Disable Java in Safari
  7. Apple Mail Security: Disable Loading of Remote Content
  8. Apple Mail Security: Viewing Mail Headers
  9. Put Adobe Flash on a Leash
  10. Safe Settings for Adobe Flash
  11. Turn Bluetooth Off
  12. Turn Off Unused Network Services
  13. File Sharing and Remote Access
  14. Use a Hardware Firewall With Unroutable LAN
  15. Prefer Wired Internet; Avoid Wireless Internet
  16. Use a Bastion Server
  17. More Diligent Measures, Even Hardware Removal

Password Managers and Encryption

Use high quality passwords, identities, logins conveniently..

  1. Password Managers (General)
  2. Making a Strong (Highly Secure) Password
  3. Worst Practices at Big Web Sites
  4. Using 1Password for Password and Logins
  5. Syncing the 1Password Vault
  6. iCloud Keychain

Upgrading Your Mac

When and Why to Upgrade Your Mac..

  1. Upgrades: Know Your Priorities
  2. Be Smart About Upgrades
  3. Upgrades: How Much Memory?
  4. Upgrades: Internal Hard Drive or Solid State Drive?
  5. Upgrading Your System Drive
  6. MacBook Pro Upgrades
  7. Upgrading Mac Pro Memory
  8. Upgrading Mac Pro Internal Drives
  9. Upgrading the Mac Pro CPU
  10. Upgrading Reliability and Backup
  11. Upgrading Ergonomics and Efficiency
  12. Case Study: Upgrade a MacBook Pro to Banish Sluggishness
  13. Case Study: Upgrade a 2010 MacBook Pro for Photoshop Performance
  14. Case Study of Mac Pro Memory and Photoshop CS5 Performance

Command Line Time Savers

Useful tasks at the command line in Terminal..

  1. Basics of Command Line
  2. How to Make a Shell Script Executable
  3. How to Verify All Mounted Volumes
  4. How to Purge the File System Disk Cache: 'sudo purge' in Terminal.app

Optimizing Photoshop CS6 / Creative Cloud Performance

Preferred configuration for best performance..

  1. Photoshop CS6 Performance Configuration
  2. Speed Up Saving and Opening Photoshop Files by up to 20X
  3. diglloyd Benchmarks for Photoshop CC
  4. Are 12 CPU Cores Faster Than 6 with Photoshop CS6?
  5. Disable App Nap for Consistent Performance

Optimizing Other Photography Software

Speedups for working with images..

  1. How to Organize Photos or Files Into New Folders in the Finder
  2. How to Quickly Preview and Sort 1000 Images the OS X Finder
  3. Optimizing Adobe Lightroom
  4. Optimizing Apple Aperture
  5. Optimizing Canon Digital Photo Professional
  6. Optimizing PTGui Pro Panoramas

Optimizing Mac Performance

Learn about Activity Monitor and understand how CPU cores, processes, memory use, and software scalability affect performance..

  1. Ways to Optimize Your Mac’s Performance
  2. Optimizing your Mac: Get Adequate Memory
  3. Optimizing your Mac: SSD for Fast Virtual Memory
  4. Optimizing your Mac: Fast Hard Drive or SSD
  5. Optimizing your Mac: Quit Vampire Programs
  6. Optimizing your Mac: Turn Off Unused Services
  7. How to Delete a Space-Hogging Sleep File sleepimage
  8. How to Reclaim Wasted Cache Space on Your Boot Drive
  9. Extending the 'sudo' Timeout

Choosing and Configuring a Mac

An in-depth look at how to find the right Mac setup for you.

  1. How to Choose a Mac
  2. How to Select and Configure a Mac Pro
  3. How to Select and Configure a MacBook Pro
  4. How to Select and Configure an iMac
  5. Buying a Refurbished Mac
  6. Buying a Mac at the Apple Store
  7. Upgrading Your Mac
  8. Setting up Your New Mac (or renovating one)
  9. Mac Boot Drive Dogma
  10. Mac Backup and Reliability
  11. Simple and Cost-effective Backups for Mac
  12. Backing up with Apple’s Mac Backup
  13. My Mac Pro: An Example
  14. Mac Pro Memory: Choosing, Installing, Testing

How to Buy / What to Buy

Nuts and bolts of buying a Mac, and recommended extras..

  1. Mac Pro Buyer's Guide: Step-by-Step
  2. Buyer's Guide: Ordering a Refurbished Mac Pro
  3. Buyer's Guide: Ordering a New Mac Pro
  4. Buyer's Guide: Setting up a Mac Pro
  5. Buyer's Guide: Multi-interface External Enclosures
  6. Buyer's Guide: eSATA Enclosures
  7. Buyer's Guide: Memory for Mac Pro
  8. Buyer's Guide: Hard Drives for Mac Pro
  9. Buyer's Guide: eSATA Cards for Mac Pro
  10. Buyer's Guide: Recommended Solid State Drives (SSD)
  11. Buyer's Guide: MacBook Pro Memory
  12. Buyer's Guide: eSATA for MacBook pro
  13. Buyer's Guide: Displays
  14. Buyer's Guide: Power Conditioning (UPS)
  15. Recomended Vendor: OWC

Optimizing Mac Application Performance

Optimizing specific application performance..

  1. Intro to Optimizing Mac Applications
  2. Optimizing Developer Builds Performance
  3. Optimizing Spotlight for Better Performance
  4. Optimizing Virtual Memory Performance
  5. How to Add a Quit Finder Option to the Finder

Core Rot at Apple

The worrisome decline of OS X quality and integrity..

  1. Apple Core Rot: Introduction
  2. Reader Comments on Apple Core Rot
  3. Impossible to Complete a File Copy on Any Drives
  4. Time Machine Silently Excludes Critical Data
  5. Finder Copy Destroys File System on Boot Drive
  6. Finder Refuses to Delete 'Backup Items'
  7. Finder Silently Fails to Copy Files
  8. Disk Utility Offers to Destroy 13 volumes on 4 Drives
  9. Graphics Professionals Need 10-bit Color

Blog posts

2023

2023-06-01 How to Create an Encrypted Volume on an SSD or Camera Card

2022

2022-02-17 Reader Comment: “In the calendar app, search does not work”

2022-02-05 How to Fix: Spotlight Search Not Working in macOS Monterey, Broken on External Volumes, Network Volumes

2021

2021-10-08 OWC Announces Thunderbolt Dual DisplayPort 1.4 Adapter supporting up to dual 8K displays

2021-10-08 IntegrityChecker Java: Simultaneous Data Verification on any Number of Hard Drives or SSDs

2021-10-05 Apple Safari Tab Bar Colorization: How to Disable

2021-09-27 Corrupted .git/index File: “git fatal: unordered stage entries in index”

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

2021-07-30 Backing up With Carbon Copy Cloner For Years Now, Latest Update As Good As Ever in Functionality, but Confusing Visuals

2021-07-28 How To Quickly Email a Link to a Web Page

2021-07-25 Batch Renaming Files for Photography using 'A Better Finder Rename'

2021-07-23 Quick Look: 'A Better Finder Rename' for Batch Renaming Files

2021-07-21 How to Batch-Rename files in the macOS Finder

2021-04-24 Automatic Image Downsizing in Apple Mail Wrecks Image Readability

2020

2020-02-28 How to Enable the Mac Startup Chime on Recent Macs

2020-01-19 How to Add File/Folder Access Permissions in macOS Catalina, including Full Disk Access

2017

2017-04-07 How to Disable All Push Notification Requests in Apple Safari

2015

2015-04-19 How To Partition a Drive to Free Space Using Disk Utility

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