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August 28, 2019 Mac

Do I Need Antivirus Software?

This article investigates the issue, makes Antivirus App suggestions and covers some ways to know if you have malware on your Mac.

August 27, 2019 Mac

Showing All Devices In Disk Utility

The Disk Utility App in the Mac OS, while not as robust as in prior days, is still fairly useful. One of the Default settings of the newer versions of the Disk Utility App is to not show all the partitions (Device, Container, Volume) of a drive.

August 27, 2019 Mac

How To Restore Items From External Drive In Time Machine

However, if you have Time Machine backing up other external hard drives in addition to your main hard drive, you have to access those backups in a different manner.

August 26, 2019 Mac

Mojave Supplemental Update 10.14.6

Apple just released another Supplemental Update to macOS Mojave 10.14.6. It is about 1.25 GB and takes about 20 minutes to install. I have installed it with no problems.

August 26, 2019 Mac

Stuck Mac Screensaver

I moved away from using a Screensaver on my Mac a while back. If you use the macOS Screensaver, then you may have experienced it being stuck on occasion.

August 26, 2019 Mac

Adding Emoji Email in Mail App

I don’t know if you use Emoji in your Emails or not. I use them on occasion. I suppose it would not be appropriate in a business setting.

August 23, 2019 Mac

Sign In With Apple

Do you have tons of sign-in passwords for your Mac and websites? Some of he hassle of trying to remember and deal with all these passwords can be alleviated using a password program.