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eXtensions - Thursday 15 July 2021 Thursday Comment: Apple Anticipation and Expectations; User Tips; Politicians Sniffing at Big Tech By Graham K. Rogers Apples Q3 2021 figures are coming soon. Updates to a number of products - iPhones, Macs, iPads - are expected soon although there is speculation about chips to be used. The EU, American politicians and some European countries are all looking at Big Tech in terms of monopoly power. Break up may look attractive in the short term, but be careful...

Macworld How to verify your Mac’s drive health using Disk Utility Using the First Aid function in Disk Utility. body> Its a good idea to check on the health of your Macs internal storage on a regular basis. You can do this using Disk Utility, an app that comes with every Mac. To run the check, you need to boot the Mac into Recovery Mode. On Intel-based Macs, restart your Mac and hold down Command-R on the keyboard. On M1 Macs, shut down the Mac, then press and hold down the power butt...

The developer beta of macOS Monterey is out in the wild now and we are discovering new features every day. And one of the most interesting features that have been uncovered is the ability to erase your Mac without requiring a full reinstall. According to users who have been playing around with the developer beta, there’s an “ Erase All...

A new way of thinking about backups should inform your planning.

How to Get Your Data Off a Mac That Won’t Boot Table of Contents Got a Recent Backup? Use That Best practice dictates that you regularly back up your Mac to an external location. You can use Time Machine and a simple external USB hard drive to do this or set up a more elaborate networked solution. When the worst happens and your Mac fails to boot, you can simply plug your Time Machine disk into another Mac and access your files from there instead. This method assumes you have a recent backup ...

The advantages include better speed and reliability.

Thinking about upgrading your computer hard drive? It’s not hard at all If you need some speed, upgrade your computer to a solid-state drive. A hard drive dock from StarTech to mount bare hard drives on your Mac or Windows PC. They were out of space on their drive and wanted to upgrade to a larger solid-state drive. Traditional hard drives use spinning metal disks to hold your data. The data is read by a reading head that looks like the needle from a record player, but hard drive platters spi...

(Image: Shutterstock) Your hard drive hasnt been acting the same lately. Its starting to make clicking or screeching noises, it cant seem to find your files, and its moving really slowly. It might be time to say farewell, but heres what you should do before it goes to the big data center in the sky. Every hard drive dies eventually, and when its near death, youll see the signs. Strange noises, corrupted files, crashing during boot, and glacial transfer speeds all point to the inevitable end. Th...

Macworld How to encrypt a Mac storage device Apple allows encrypted drives in two varieties. body> Full-disk encryption (FDE) is a low-effort way to ensure that if someone were to get ahold of one of your drives while unmounted or a Mac while powered down, the contents on the drive would be unusable to them without knowing a password or other encryption information. Apple offers two distinct ways of encrypting volumes on a drive, and its important to know the difference between them and...

Time Machine can use APFS for backups starting in Big Sur, but that seems to prevent networked backups.