Your disk’s journal aims to prevent disk errors which can occur after a crash. Here’s how to use it to protect your Mac’s data.
Category Archive: Macs
Was that crash a freeze, a panic, or just a spinning beachball? And what do they mean?
For the last 15 weeks, this iMac has been freezing sporadically. I have run out of ideas, and hope that 10.11.6 fixes the bug.
An extraordinary optical illusion by Kokichi Sugihara.
Coupled with FileVault’s whole disk encryption, this can stop others from accessing your data. But there are disadvantages too.
How not to lose data, and how to protect private and sensitive data, when your Mac goes off for repair.
Don’t let a repairer see a dirty Mac: they may refuse to complete the repair under warranty. Give it a clean first.
You tap your watch, and the face remains black. Is it dead? Here’s what to do next.
Simply the best development environment, which now has superb support for AppleScript Objective-C. At half the price too.
We should have taken heed of the Boaty McBoatface incident. Does the UK really want to leave Europe?
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