7 posts with tag Apple

Using Apple’s Quicktime to Screen Record

Apple Laptops have a built in screen recording function that is pretty useful.  The screen recorded videos can be saved to your computer, uploaded to google drive,  uploaded to your own website or uploaded to youtube.  Here is how:1.  Launch the Program Quicktime This program is included with all Apple computers and you can find […]

Apple and The Curious Tale of Chicktionary

A couple years ago Apple released a new version of iTunes 12.7 that removed the ability to backup your iOS apps. So when you plug in your iPad mini or iPad Air and it backs up it now would skip apps only backup pictures, settings, messages, etc. (https://www.macobserver.com/news/product-news/itunes-12-7/) This move is a major shift taking […]

DeployStudio and MacOS High Sierra 10.13

With the release of MacOS High Sierra we see that Apple has launched its new file system APFS.¬† This new file system is optimized for SSD drives and as part of the upgrade will automatically detect a SSD and update it to APFS file format.¬† If no SSD is found it will stick with HFS+ […]

Disk Utility is Terrible on El Capitan – Here is an Replacement Disk Utility Ported

El Capitan has reached a nice stable milestone but one thing that has always irked me about the OS is its terrible version of Disk Utility.¬† Not only was functionality removed from this utility but it also simply is less stable and does not work much of the time.¬† Let’s say you want make a […]

4 Chrome Extensions That I Like

Okay I have a hit or miss relationship with browser extensions. ¬¨‚ĆOften the culprit of a malfunctioning browser is a bad extensions like a “coupon printer” or another piece of malware that is disguised as a browser improvement. ¬¨‚ĆWith this disclaimer I do like the following four Extensions. ¬¨‚ĆGoogle Dictionary Google Scholar Ublock Origin Ghostery […]

Discoveryd is Out mDNSresponder is Back Rare Apple Backpedal

Mac OS X Yosemite has had consistent trouble with wireless and network connectivity in general.¬¨‚Ć These issues originated back when Apple rolled out a new process called discoveryd which replaced the long time used DNS process mDNSresponder.¬¨‚Ƭ¨‚Ƭ¨‚Ć The story gets a bit interesting because Apple really downplayed these issues at first and when on a […]

HTML 5 / Codec Battle and Video Html Tag (Ogg, WebM, M4v)

HTML 5 is picking up steam and being implemented all over the web.¬¨‚Ć This is great as the newer standard removes the need for many third party plugins and for the most part may pave the way for a future without Adobe Flash.¬¨‚Ć One element that Flash brought to the web early on was the […]

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