So I get asked this a lot and on my day to day setup of any Apple silicon mahcine this is one of the first things I do in setting up a new build of macOS. All you need to do is open up Terminal paste in this command
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Tools you will need:
- USB Memory stick 32GB
- Mac that can run 10.15 or below
- Good Internet Speed
So this one is a little tricky as you need an old machine to setup the installer from. I would recommend a machine that has 10.15 Catalina or below as the Operating System anything more I think you will have an issue trying to download and run the installer. I did try it on a newish machine but when I downloaded the installer it timed out saying the OS would not be able to install. This is due to the machine being to young to run the old OS as the downloader thinks your trying to install say El Capitan to that machine which is why you need a old machine that can handle the old software. I have a old 2012 MacBook Pro which is fine to run the software and as it cannot run any OS higher that Catalina it works fine as the machine to run the terminal command to create the USB installer.
Continue reading “How to create a USB Boot Stick for Legacy MacOX”How to setup a USB Boot Disc for Sonoma
Tools you will need:
- USB Memory stick 32GB
- Mac that can download Sequoia
- Good Internet Speed
Download Sequoia from the app store. Once downloads plug in the USB stick change the name to MyVolume. Check the Installer has download by checking the Applications folder then use this terminal command to run in terminal to create the boot stick.
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Browse with Microsoft Edge across all your devices
Hello all Mac Users,
For this article we are going to look at Microsoft Edge for Mac. Since the last Microsoft web browser for the Macintosh was ‘Internet Explorer for Mac’ back in 1996 with the Power PC and Mac Operating system running classic and then Mac OS X finishing with Tiger 10.4 or as we all called it ‘tigger’ because it sounded cooler.
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So Microsoft defender for mac has now appeared when you download and install the full Office 365 package for your mac. According to some reports the software has been around since 2019; however its only now been include in the full build of 365 for Mac download. Looking at the programme you would think that it would be as simple setup as it if by default on a windows machine.
