Which is faster with a hard disk: using APFS or sticking with HFS+? Are there any differences in their performance on SSDs?
Category Archive: Macs
Monterey changes the way that Recovery works on M1 Macs, making them more like Intel Macs by using a paired Recovery volume. But that could spell trouble.
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: The city where […]
Lossy and non-lossy compression explained, with examples and an outline of how JPEG compression is performed.
Summary of AirDrop, network file sharing, target disk mode, and sneakernet, explaining how to use each and what they’re best at.
Apple has just pushed an update to the data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number to […]
Now has three presets to control speed and energy consumption of compression and decompression, together with complete custom control.
How to work out how many threads and which cores are needed to achieve a compression rate up to 1.7 GB/s, and how to estimate power and energy.
A journey through some visual illusions show how a simple physical concept of human colour vision doesn’t work. It’s all about perception, not physics.
Provided in Archive Utility and three command tools, its LZFSE compression even supports APFS special files like clones and sparse files.
The Eclectic Light Company 