Tag: apple

  • How to restore your hard drive from a Time Machine backup

    How to restore your hard drive from a Time Machine backup Whether you’re having major problems with your current hard drive or upgrading to a new Mac, Time Machine can help you get back to business. Power up your Mac and hold down the Command and R keys to enter the macOS Recovery Partition. Your…

  • Disabling the Mac Boot / Start up Chime Sound

    A) Mute sound before shutting down. B) Run the following command in Terminal sudo nvram SystemAudioVolume=%80 c) To turn it back on again, run this command in terminal, sudo nvram SystemAudioVolume=%01

  • How to install Windows 10 in Bootcamp

    [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hmm9Q-T0oTo]

  • How to replace the HDD in a 2011/2012 MacBook Pro

      It looks fairly easy, just make sure you have a H00 and a Trox T6 before you start. If you’re planning to reinstall OS X, make sure you have created a USB boot “disk” before had as well. See my instructions for that HERE. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7co5-qJhuM]

  • Create a bootable installer for macOS

    Example: sudo /Applications/Install macOS Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia –volume /Volumes/MyVolume –applicationpath /Applications/Install macOS Sierra.app See the Apple Support page here : https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372 or watch this video TIP: You will probably need to erase the HDD using the disk utility before installing. If you do, chose what ever name you like, one of the Mac Formats and make sure to choose…

  • How To Install OSX on PC (in a VM)

    Great video, it does actually work. https://youtu.be/5RQ21XG8Ts4 Check comments for added instructions, especially if you upgrade to Sierra. Thanks, Malcolm

  • iPhone 7 Frozen

    I got my iPhone stuck somehow today, it wouldn’t respond to touches and then wouldn’t turn off/sleep. When I held the power/sleep button down for a few seconds (10?) it displayed a “loading circle” and sat there. I then discovered that if you that to force restart the iPhone 7, you have to press the…

  • Become super users (root) on Mac OS X

      From the Apple menu choose System Preferences…. From the View menu choose Users & Groups. Click the lock and authenticate as an administrator account. Click Login Options…. Click the “Edit…” or “Join…” button at the bottom right. Click the “Open Directory Utility…” button. Click the lock in the Directory Utility window. Enter an administrator…

  • My 15 Favorite iPhone/iTouch Apps

    I really like my iPod Touch, it’s the most usefull PDA type device I have ever owned. It is so usefull and easy to use. There are loads (25,000?) of applications available for it , here are some of my favorite: Application Toodledo [iTtunes] – List / to do management eWallet [iTunes] – Password management…

  • Working From Your iPhone

    While I only have an iTouch (iPod Touch) myself, I do use it quite allot and find it a very useful tool. Elliott at Mashable has a good list of application to Better Web-Working From Your iPhone. I can personally recommend Toodledo [iTtunes], I use it allot and think it is well worth the $3.99