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2024-03-13 The Ultimate Mac Buyers Guide, Part 3: How to Configure a Professional High End Mac

2024-03-01 Extract Text From Password Protected PDF: macOS Image-to-Text Feature

2024-02-15 Disable macOS Major Software Update Notifications: "defaults write com.apple.SoftwareUpdate MajorOSUserNotificationDate"

2024-02-15 Backup Best Practices: How to Make Fast Clone Backups on a Mac

2024-01-20 Botchware: Apple Forcibly Upgrading Macs to macOS Sonoma without User Permission or Input + How to Defeat Upgrades

2023-12-19 Backup Best Practices: How to Use Time Machine Optimally With Other macOS Backups

2023-12-03 Creating an Encrypted Volume for Backup or Otherwise (video How-To) 📹

2023-11-29 “Your iCloud Storage Is Almost Full” — How To Backup Your iPhone To A Mac Instead Of Paying Rent

2023-11-27 How-To Videos for diglloydTools IntegrityChecker 📹

2023-11-18 macOS: How to fix unwanted “Hot Corners” Land-Mine Behavior

2023-07-24 How to Fix Pesky Problem of No Access to Your Own Volumes at the Top Level

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

2023-01-01 How to Create a Password System You Can Live With

2022-04-13 IntegrityChecker Java for Windows: How To Install Java

2022-04-13 IntegrityChecker Java for Windows: How To Set the Path Variable

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

2022-01-03 IntegrityChecker Java (icj): How to Eliminate the WARN_IO_STALL Messages

2021-10-29 How to More than Double I/O Speed for Validation of Data Integrity of Large Amounts of Data (IntegrityChecker)

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

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

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”

2021-09-27 How To Prevent System Sleep while a Terminal Command is Running: caffeinate

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

2021-07-30 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'

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Cloning

How to utilize cloning for backup and other chores..

Understanding Storage and Hard Drives

How to erase and partition drives..

Drive Capacity and Speed

Larger drives are faster..

Using Apple Time Machine for Backup

How to use Apple Time Machine for Data Safety.

RAID

Various types of RAID setups..

Apple Dec 2013 Mac Pro

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

networking

Tips for networking, internet, etc..

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..

iPhone and Related

Apple iPhone and related items..

Easy Thunderbolt Networking (10 Gigabit)

Networking as fast as an SSD!.

Setting Up Your Mac For Better Security

Reduce the chances of security breaches..

Password Managers and Encryption

Use high quality passwords, identities, logins conveniently..

Upgrading Your Mac

When and Why to Upgrade Your Mac..

Command Line Time Savers

Useful tasks at the command line in Terminal..

diglloydTools and IntegrityChecker How-To

How to use IntegrityChecker and other tools..

Optimizing Photoshop CS6 / Creative Cloud Performance

Preferred configuration for best 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..

Optimizing Mac Performance

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

Choosing and Configuring a Mac

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

How to Buy / What to Buy

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

Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

Special Report: Upgrade Now or Wait?.

Optimizing Mac Application Performance

Optimizing specific application performance..

Solid State Drives (SSD)

Choosing and using solid state drives..

Core Rot at Apple

The worrisome decline of OS X quality and integrity..

Fusion How To

Using Apple’s Fusion drive technology..



Blog posts

2024

2024-03-13 The Ultimate Mac Buyers Guide, Part 3: How to Configure a Professional High End Mac

2024-03-01 Extract Text From Password Protected PDF: macOS Image-to-Text Feature

2024-02-15 Disable macOS Major Software Update Notifications: "defaults write com.apple.SoftwareUpdate MajorOSUserNotificationDate"

2024-02-15 Backup Best Practices: How to Make Fast Clone Backups on a Mac

2024-01-20 Botchware: Apple Forcibly Upgrading Macs to macOS Sonoma without User Permission or Input + How to Defeat Upgrades

2023

2023-12-19 Backup Best Practices: How to Use Time Machine Optimally With Other macOS Backups

2023-12-03 Creating an Encrypted Volume for Backup or Otherwise (video How-To) 📹

2023-11-29 “Your iCloud Storage Is Almost Full” — How To Backup Your iPhone To A Mac Instead Of Paying Rent

2023-11-27 How-To Videos for diglloydTools IntegrityChecker 📹

2023-11-18 macOS: How to fix unwanted “Hot Corners” Land-Mine Behavior

2023-07-24 How to Fix Pesky Problem of No Access to Your Own Volumes at the Top Level

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

2023-01-01 How to Create a Password System You Can Live With

2022

2022-04-13 IntegrityChecker Java for Windows: How To Install Java

2022-04-13 IntegrityChecker Java for Windows: How To Set the Path Variable

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

2022-01-03 IntegrityChecker Java (icj): How to Eliminate the WARN_IO_STALL Messages

2021

2021-10-29 How to More than Double I/O Speed for Validation of Data Integrity of Large Amounts of Data (IntegrityChecker)

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

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

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”

2021-09-27 How To Prevent System Sleep while a Terminal Command is Running: caffeinate

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

2021-07-30 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

2021-05-11 macOS Big Sur: how to List Active Kernel Extensions

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

2021-01-29 How-To: Formatting a new Hard Drive or SSD in Apple Disk Utility

2021-01-12 European Readers: How To Buy OWC Products Over In Europe —  OWCShop.com

2020

2020-11-04 How to Change Web Search Engine Preference in Web Browser, or iPhone/iPad

2020-07-23 A Troublesome Security and Privacy Flaw: Apple Mail Auto-Complete + How to Delete Unwanted Recipients

2020-05-05 How to Rename Files in the Finder

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

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

2019

2019-11-26 macOS and iOS: How to Exclude the Wrong WiFi Network

2019-11-17 One Possibly Way to Fix Thunderbolt Problems

2019-11-15 How to Stop macOS from Urging You to “Upgrade” to macOS Catalina

2019-08-28 How to Show or Hide Hidden Files in macOS Finder

2019-01-27 How to Fix Damaged File Dates (RAW or JPEG or movies) with exiftool

2018

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

2017

2017-11-26 How to Disable Downloading of macOS High Sierra

2017-11-26 How to not Waste/Lose a Huge Chunk of Cellular Data for Personal Hotspot : Disable Background Downloading

2017-08-12 Reader Comment: How to Solve Connecting Mini DisplayPort Display to Macs with USB-C/Thunderbolt 3

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

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

2017-03-10 Manage That Keyboard: How to Disable Caps Lock

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

2016-11-17 2016 MacBook Pro: Hangs on Restart, How to Force Reboot?

2016-09-21 A Question for Readers: How to Print iPhone Photos

2016-05-28 How to get a Better Idea of Memory Usage: Purge the OS X File System Buffer Cache

2016-05-10 OS X: How to Fix Hang in Image Capture Utility

2015

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

2015-11-12 How to Use 32TB or 40TB of 8TB Hard Drives?

2015-10-15 Reader Question: How to Approach El Capitan

2015-09-24 Apple iPhone Core Rot: Apple Breaks Personal Hotspot in iOS 9.0.1 + HOW TO FIX

2015-05-14 How to save about $360 on a 20TB OWC Thunderbay 4

2015-05-03 Isolating/Blocking Hard Drive Vibration, Especially on a Hardwood Desk or Floor

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

2015-03-26 iMac: How to Upgrade the Internal Drive

2015-03-25 Which Mac to Get? How to Backup? Planning for Growth.

2015-02-27 Which Mac to Get? How to Backup? Planning for Growth.

2015-02-15 How to Prioritize Network Interfaces for Peak Performance

2015-01-17 How to Automate DiskUtility Verification of Mounted Volumes

2014

2014-12-01 Adobe DreamWeaver CC 2014 Does Not Launch! How to Fix Preference Permissions

2014-05-26 How to Configure 2013 Mac Pro + many Mac Pro Configs in stock at B&H Photo

2014-03-14 2013 Mac Pro: Which one to Choose, How to Store Image Files, Backup, etc

2014-03-05 How and Why to Partition the Mac Pro Internal SSD (ditto for any Mac)

2014-03-03 How to Choose a Secure Password

2014-01-05 How to Clone a Volume, and Cloning as a Backup Strategy

2014-01-05 Erasing a Drive, How and Why to Partition a Drive, RAID, Validating a Drive

2013

2013-07-12 How to Safely Transfer Data or Verify Backups

2013-06-29 How to Safely Transfer Data or Verify Backups

2013-06-29 How to Automate DiskUtility Verification of Mounted Volumes

2013-05-09 Adobe Creative Cloud: How to Upgrade the Non-Cloud CS6

2013-03-26 How to Safely Transfer Data or Verify Backups

2013-03-26 A Finder Shortcut for Organizing Photos or Files Into New Folders

2013-02-18 How to Speed Up Adobe Photoshop Lightroom

2013-02-18 How to Safely Transfer Data or Verify Backups

2013-01-10 Apple iMac with Fusion Partitioning: Benefits of Partitioning, and How-To

2013-01-08 How to Automate DiskUtility Verification of Mounted Volumes

2012

2012-12-01 How to Show / Unhide the Library Folder in Your Home Directory (Mac OS X)

2012-10-23 Files and Folders That Are Invisible in Finder Windows (But Should Not Be)

2012-10-08 How to Safely Transfer Data or Verify Backups

2012-05-11 Loathing for Microsoft — Product Key

2012-01-22 How to Use the MPG Mailing List

2011

2011-08-17 Mac OS X Lion: Unable to Print With Epson Stylus Pro 3800

2011-08-14 One Good Reason to use SoftRAID — Predicting Drive Failure

2011-08-09 Apple Lion Recovery Disk Assistant — But There is a BETTER WAY

2011-08-08 Restoring a Failed Firewire 800 Port

2011-08-08 My Consulting Services Might Save You Time and Money and Also Get You the Right System for Your Needs

2011-08-08 Mac OS X Lion Hairballs

2011-08-01 MPG Pro Workstation and MPG Pro Laptop Programs NOW AVAILABLE

2011-07-21 Protocol for Upgrading to Mac OS X Lion

2011-06-30 MPG Pro Workstation and MPG Pro Laptop Programs on Hold Due to New California Affiliate Law

2011-06-24 Final Cut Pro X Usage of CPU Cores and Memory

2011-06-18 Which Mac Pro for Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 3.x?

2011-06-07 The All-SSD Mac Pro

2011-06-07 2011 MacBook Pro: Will Apple Fix the 6G SATA Bugs?

2011-06-05 Securing Your Mac — More Pages Added

2011-06-02 Whither Thunderbolt?

2011-05-19 How to Test Your 6G or 3G Solid State Drive (SSD) for Consistent Performance

2011-05-08 How Fast a Drive Is Needed for Optimal Photoshop File-Save Speed?

2011-05-07 Save Big Photoshop Files 20X Faster!

2011-05-07 How fast are Four Hitachi 7K3000 3TB Hard Drives in a RAID-0 Stripe?

2011-05-06 Save Big Photoshop Files 16X Faster! Adobe Releases DisallowFlateCompressedPSD.plugin for Photoshop CS5

2011-05-06 Photoshop CS5 12.0.4 Upgrade Kills All But One Software License

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)?

2011-04-15 Aluminum Foil Fix For Your 17" 2011 MacBook Pro SATA 6G Problems

2011-04-06 How to Install More Than One Power Hungry Video Card in a Mac Pro

2011-04-01 Disable Spotlight for Faster Backups

2011-03-28 Is Your Mac Slow to Boot Up?

2011-03-28 How to Safely Transfer Data or Verify Backups

2011-03-19 Final Cut Pro Dropped Frames and Anti-Virus Software on Mac OS X

2011-03-15 How to Get a Mac Pro at 3.46 GHz with 6 or 12 CPU Cores

2011-03-15 Backing Up Your Mac: Keep It Safe, and No, Time Machine is NOT Enough

2011-03-13 Extending Battery Life on the Apple MacBook Pro by Disabling Discrete Graphics

2011-02-28 New Apple MacBook Pro SATA Ports— SATA 6Gb/s and SATA 3Gb/s

2011-02-28 AppleCare and USA Macs Outside the USA

2011-01-19 How To Follow Your Stocks Efficiently

2011-01-15 Hard Drive Noise

2011-01-07 How to View Disk Usage, Reclaiming Wasted Cache Space

2010

2010-11-13 Review and How-To: Novatel Wireless MiFi 2372 3G Mobile Wi-Fi Hotspot

2010-09-29 How to Safely Transfer Data or Verify Backups — User Comment

2010-09-21 How to Safely Transfer Data or Verify Backups

2010-09-06 Setting Up Your Mac

2010-09-02 How to Cut Handbrake Video Encoding Time by 40%!

2010-08-19 How to Preview and Sort 2000 Images Fast

2010-08-09 How to Mitigate 2010 Mac Pro 4/6-core Memory Limits

2010-08-05 Final Cut Studio — How to Test?

2010-08-01 How to Follow My Coverage and Reviews of the New MAC PRO and iMac

2010-06-25 Converting to a Larger Time Machine volume, and a Faster One Too!

2010-05-30 How to save 8GB of space on your MacBook Pro boot drive!

2010-05-28 How to subscribe to an RSS feed

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