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Running out of Space on your Mac

So you noticed your machine is running slow or Apple Mail suddenly quits. It might be worth looking at your system and seeing how much space you have on the Hard drive. This is easy to do, click on the Apple Icon top left then click about (Monterey and before click on storage) Ventura and above click on more info. This will show you the storage drive and how much data is on the machine. If it is full then don’t panic there are some easy fixes.

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How to create a USB Boot Stick for Legacy MacOX

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.

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Microsoft Edge for Mac

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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Microsoft Defender for Mac

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. 

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How to make a Bootable External Hard drive for a Mac with multiple Operating Systems

This is a quick video on how to create a bootable hard drive and install 3 Operating Systems. For this video we are going to install 10.10 Yosemite, 10.11 El Capitan, 10.12 macOS Sierra. You must create a bootable USB of each of the Operating system before you reboot the machine to run the installer. Here is a link to the website to help you do this.
http://macuser.org.uk/2017/02/02/command-line-to-create-usb-os-stick/Once you have created your USB Bootable OSX drive reboot the machine you will use to install the OS to the external drive. YOU MUST PRESS THE ALT KEY ON THE REBOOT. This will open up the bootable options for the machine. Select the USB bootable installer you created and run through the installer selecting the Ext hard drive for that OSX as seen in the early part of this video i.e Yosemite 1010. Once the OSX is installed create use for the new OSX you just installed on that drive and run the updates. Repeat the process for all other OSX you want to install.
Remember only certain machines will boot certain OSX systems. In short anything under 2010 will not install macOS Sierra (there are a few exceptions)
Here is the video on how to create a USB installer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOjyy5L23R0&feature=youtu.be