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.
Continue reading “Running out of Space on your Mac”How to install Rosetta 2 via Terminal on a Apple silicon machine
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
Continue reading “How to install Rosetta 2 via Terminal on a Apple silicon machine”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.
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.
Continue reading “How to setup a USB Boot Disc for Sonoma”How to setup a USB Boot Disc for Sequoia
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.
Continue reading “How to setup a USB Boot Disc for Sequoia”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.
Continue reading “Microsoft Edge for Mac”How to install 10.13.6 Installer on a USB memory stick
A Quick and simple video on how to create a 10.13.6 USB memory stick installer on you Mac.
This link may help you with the terminal command:
Make a bootable external Operating System Hard drive
In this post we will go through the steps of how to create a bootable hard drive and install 3 Operating Systems.
For this process we are going to install 10.10 Yosemite, 10.11 El Capitan, 10.12 macOS Sierra on an external Hard drive. Continue reading “Make a bootable external Operating System Hard drive”
tuneupmymac nightmare!
What to do if you install tuneupmymac and how to uninstall it?
OK so I was on download.com today and a piece of software decided to download itself to my downloads folder. The programme was automatically downloaded as a little extra piece of software from my original programme I downloaded. The program was called “tuneupmymac”. This programme is another one of those call called pieces of software that will “fix” your mac mac it go faster etc etc. Well thats what is says on the tin, so it must be true? Mustn’t it?
Apple support site link
As you know most people who has a question or a bug/issue has arrived on their mac usually google it. Today I stumbled across Apples main support webpage. (click here)