After converting your MacOS hard disk to APFS, you could run into a situation where your Mac is no longer bootable and you get errors like "Building boot caches on boot helper partition failed" or "Running bless to place boot files failed". In my case, I restored a recently repaired Mac from a Time Machine [...]
As a Mac user, using Time Machine to create backups of your Mac is usually a good idea. You can either attach a large enough USB drive to use as a backup drive, or you can use a network file share as your backup drive. Sometimes your backups can take a painfully long time to [...]
If you're having an issue getting your camera or microphone working in certain apps after upgrading your Mac to macOS Mojave, it could be related to some of the new security and privacy features. In previous macOS versions, any application could gain control over these devices with or without you knowing. As a part of [...]
Apple released macOS Mojave a few months ago and as with any major OS release, one of the most discussed topics is battery life. macOS Mojave is no exception. There are quite a few topics in Apple's own support forums regarding macOS Mojave battery life compared to High Sierra or even going back to Sierra. [...]
If you've found this article, it is probably because your Mac won't boot up and is stuck at the Apple Logo screen with the loading/progress bar and never goes any farther. Luckily, there are a few steps you can try yourself before making an appointment at the Apple Genius Bar. There are a few reasons [...]
Tor is free software and an open network. Tor protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, and it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location. You can [...]
As a user of both a PC and a Mac, there are times when I dock my Mac that is connected to a Windows PC keyboard. As you know, in macOS, you use keyboard shortcuts like Command ⌘ C and Command ⌘ V for copy and paste. In Windows, you would use Control C and [...]
If your Mac is on a network where DNS changes are made frequently or occasionally, there might be a time where you'll need to perform a DNS flush so that you can resolve a web address to the correct IP address. You might run into an issue where a computer on the network is setup [...]
One of the great features of a Mac is the FaceTime camera, when it works correctly. Unfortunately, you can run into an issue where you get the dreaded "There is no connected camera" error when trying to use your Mac FaceTime camera. By reading the message, you might think this is a hardware issue, but [...]
Until Teamviewer devices to build an option into the app that hides the dock icon, the only way to remove it is through some hacks. Since it is in the top menu bar already, I would prefer to have it not take up space in the dock. Unfortunately, doing these hacks will permanently remove the [...]
