You may find yourself in a situation when you need to boot into Safe Mode while troubleshooting a MacBook Air, MacBook Neo, or MacBook Pro. Safe Mode boots a Mac without loading third party login items, system extensions, and non-system fonts. Additionally, Safe Mode runs a disk check to verify the startup disk, clears system … Read More

MacOS Tahoe 26.7.2 and MacOS Sequoia 15.8.2 are available now as security software updates for Mac users who are continuing to run those operating systems. Those users will also find Safari 27.2 available as an update. These updates include hundreds of security patches and fixes making them recommended to all users who are running macOS … Read More

Apple has released iOS 27.2 for iPhone, and ipadOS 27.2 for iPad. These updates include new Siri AI features, along with Siri AI support in new languages, unspecified bug fixes, and security patches, making them recommended for all iPhone and iPad users to install. Additionally, Apple has also released MacOS 27.2 for Golden Gate users, … Read More

Apple has released MacOS 27.2 Golden Gate, the update includes new Siri AI features and support for Siri AI in additional languages, along with miscellaneous nonspecific bug fixes and security patches. Release notes are included below, along with download links for the full installer and IPSW file for MacOS 27.2. Separately, Apple has also released … Read More

I ran into a peculiar issue recently where the ‘dasd’ process had been consuming 100% CPU for several days straight. Since dasd is a system process, my initial assumption was that there must be some important background task that was going on. But, after a few days of no change and dasd constantly hovering between … Read More

Visual Intelligence offers a set of AI features that can be used to identify objects and items in photos or things on screen, and a neat new feature available in MacOS 27 Golden Gate allows you to interact with Siri and Visual Intelligence from just about anywhere on your Mac. You can use this to … Read More

The Edge Light feature of FaceTime for Mac enables a virtual ring light on your screen during FaceTime calls, which helps to more evenly illuminate your face. This is particularly useful in lower light conditions, and it can improve the appearance of a FaceTime call quite a bit. Ring Lighting is commonly used in media … Read More

One of the more compelling new subtler features introduced iOS 27 pertains to the ability to use full screen Widgets on iPhone. Full screen widgets can effectively turn a Home Screen page into a full mini-app of whatever the full screen widget is. For example, you can have the full screen Weather widget, which shows … Read More

iPad has many uses, either as a touch device, or even as a pseudo-laptop of sorts with the Magic Keyboard, or as a desktop-like device with an external mouse and keyboard, and for better or worse, iPad is always running iPadOS. While many Mac users wish iPad could also run MacOS, a completely different and … Read More

If you’ve ever wanted live video wallpapers on your Mac, the Phosphene app will bring your MacOS desktop to life. But that’s not all, Phosphene is also able to add your own videos to the native wallpaper and screen saver pipeline on the Mac, letting MacOS play your own videos on both your desktop, and … Read More

The all new Siri AI and Spotlight search experience in MacOS 27 is significantly more powerful and capable than prior versions of Siri and Spotlight, but Spotlight Search has a neat trick up its sleeve where you can change it to ask ChatGPT instead, directly from Spotlight search on the Mac. And you don’t even … Read More

Homebrew now has an official MacOS GUI app for visual package management, offering a graphical alternative to the popular command line tool. The Homebrew GUI app makes it easy to install new packages, update existing packages and casks, manage packages, and find new Homebrew packages, and is a worthwhile addition for Mac users who use … Read More

A somewhat rare reason that MacOS can feel excessively slow is due to a runaway process in the background, in this particular case; rpcsvchost. You might find this in Activity Monitor or another resource monitor, consuming an unusually large amount of RAM and/or CPU, in which case you’re probably wondering what this process is, and … Read More

If you’re still running MacOS Sequoia on your Mac, it’s probably for good reason. Whether that’s due to specific app compatibility, workflow, preference, or whatever else, if you have chosen not to install MacOS 27 Golden Gate let alone MacOS Tahoe 26, you’ll likely want to continue to stay on MacOS Sequoia. But Apple’s Software … Read More

If you have an older Mac that’s still perfectly usable, as most older Macs still are, then you might be interested in running a modern web browser on that Mac, and that’s what Momiji is for. Momiji is based on Firefox, so it includes up to date security patches, and support for modern web browsing … Read More

If you don’t use Apple Intelligence and Siri AI capabilities on your Mac, and you’re comfortable with Terminal-based third party removal tools, you might be interested in disabling and removing Apple Intelligence, Siri AI, Siri, and all related tools from your Mac with a newly popular utility. A third party open source tool called RemoveMacAI … Read More

The all new “Write with Siri” feature in MacOS 27 Golden Gate for Mac, iOS 27 for iPhone, and iPadOS 27 for iPad, allows you to easily compose, rewrite, and proofread text by using Apple Intelligence, and it works basically anywhere that you can type. Write with Siri works by analyzing your prompt or query … Read More

Apple has released the third beta versions of iOS 27.2, MacOS 27.2 Golden Gate, and iPadOS 27.2, to users who are enrolled in beta testing Apple system software. The betas are for iOS 27.2, iPadOS 27.2, and MacOS 27.2, and not iOS 27.1 or MacOS 27.1, but that doesn’t mean that OS 27.1 is being … Read More