by darryl | Mar 3, 2022 | Tech Notes
If you need a hard drive, which do you buy? Seagate? Western Digital (WDC)? Toshiba? HGST? BackBlaze, the cloud backup company, buys lots of drives for their cloud servers, and they periodically release statistics on which brands and models have proven most and least... by darryl | Nov 28, 2021 | Tech Notes
Cocktail is a Mac maintenance utility that performs many cleanup tasks. It’s easy to use, and we strongly recommend it to every Mac user. It will speed up your Mac, correct fonts that are not displaying properly, files that display the wrong icons, and many... by darryl | Nov 23, 2021 | Tech Notes
If you notice that your Mac is slower than usual, or isn’t behaving the way it normally does, it may be due to malware…a word that includes viruses, worms, trojans, phishing scripts, and adware…all different kinds of files that negatively affect the... by darryl | Nov 23, 2021 | Tech Notes
This article is adapted from an Apple knowledge base article at http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1564?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US How to use safe mode on your Mac Safe mode can help you to determine whether an issue is caused by software that loads as your Mac... by darryl | Nov 23, 2021 | Tech Notes
Disk Utility is unable to repair your internal drive if your Mac is currently booted from that drive. MacOS has an alternate way to diagnose and repair your internal drive. Here’s how. Start up or restart your Mac. As soon as you turn it on, begin holding... by darryl | Nov 23, 2021 | Tech Notes
Every Mac has a chip inside that manages the distribution of power to all its internal components. Apple calls this chip the System Management Controller. That chip can occasionally get scrambled because of power glitches or software crashes. When the chip is...