Whenever Steve and I go on our wild adventures, I find myself learning something new about how to use our technology when away from home. The problems and solutions evolve over time. I wanted to give you a few things we learned on our Antarctica/Argentina/Brazil trip – some of which are successes and some of […]
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How to Back Up iCloud Photos When Your Only Mac Can’t Store Originals
ICloud Photo Library Optimize Storage My friend Diane was visiting her granddaughter, and, as one does, she was giving tech support to her daughter-in-law. She wanted to bounce ideas off of someone so she brought me in with the “phone a friend” option. The problem to be solved was one I hadn’t given much thought […]
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OWC Combo Dual-Disk Enclosure & USB Hub – by Ryan Winkler
Mercury Elite Pro Dual with 3-Port Hub Today I thought I would give you a review of the OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual with 3-Port Hub. Let’s start with the problem to be solved. Problem 1: I just received my new M1 Mac mini and in looking it over I noticed the lack of ports. […]
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Dumb Question Corner – Why Do We Need Insane Amounts of RAM?
Chelsea Cook wrote: Hi Allison, I hope you don’t mind this dumb question coming in written form. I want to know: What do people do with these crazy high amounts of RAM? Yes, that includes you with your shiny new MacBook Pro. I remember when I was a kid and still using Windows, when my […]
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How to Fix a Slow Mac mini in an Unusual Way by Troy Shimkus
Hello Castaways! So, just an anecdotal story to share for fun. Recording this on my new 13” MacBook Pro in a hotel room after buying it last night at the local Apple Store in the city I’m visiting. While visiting my parents, my dad was complaining that his late 2014 Mac mini was slow. While […]
Continue readingA Tale of Two MacBooks – by Steve Davidson
Guest Post by Steve Davidson It was the worst of times, it is the best of times In early April, my well cared-for mid-2010 15” MacBook Pro began to fail badly: frequent crashes (kernel panic linked to the GPU), the internal fans made a grinding/groaning sound, and my backups started reporting errors. This MBP, my […]
Continue readingNC #588 Bandwidth Ideas, SSD in a Mac mini, Language Support on Podfeet, AppleTV on Hotel Wifi
George from Tulsa is back with some ideas on what might be causing Denise’s high bandwidth usage. It’s a great list of things to check out. Denise comes back with a great success story on the issue and then a walkthrough of her recent upgrade of her Mac mini to an SSD with some great […]
Continue readingDenise on Upgrading to an SSD on a Mac mini
Hello Fellow NosillaCastaways, this is Denise Crown with a review of Other World Computing’s SSD upgrade kit for the Mac mini. I love my Mac mini. It’s a late 2012 with the i7 chip, a terabyte drive and 16 GB of RAM. Lately the spindle drive is showing signs of potential failure so I thought […]
Continue readingNC #566 mSATA SSD on Drobo, Garbage Collection, Authy, New Country Amazon Affiliates, Samsung T3 SSD, Moving Photos to External SSD
We’ll learn about Garbage Collection in the context of a failed (and replaced) mSATA SSD from Crucial. New to podfeet.com – Amazon Affiliate links for Canada, Germany and the UK. A quick review of the Samsung T3 External USB 3.0 SSD (with USB-C connectivity). Joe LaGreca tells us about Authy, a brilliant two-factor authentication tool […]
Continue readingMoving Apple System Photo Library to an External SSD is Terrifying
So now that I’ve got my shiny new Samsung T3 USB3 external SSD, let’s see if I can figure out how to use this for my real Photos library. Since not everyone uses Photos, let me explain some details of how this works. Photos, like its predecessors iPhoto and Aperture, can handle multiple libraries. But […]
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