by Aaron Crabtree | Jul 4, 2015 | Apple, MacOS
OS X Yosemite update 10.10.4 now supports TRIM for aftermarket SSDs! To enable it, open the Terminal and type: sudo trimforce enable Accept the scary agreement and it will reboot. That’s it!
by Aaron Crabtree | Jan 8, 2015 | Apple, iPhone, MacOS, Video
I bought EyeTV software a few years ago and bought the Turbo.264 hardware encoder with it. It worked pretty well and would allow me to use my Core2Duo Mac Mini to stream live TV to my phone. Several updates later, I’m running Yosemite and EyeTV 3.6.7 and the...
by Aaron Crabtree | Oct 20, 2014 | Apple, MacOS
MacOS assumes that your machine time is GMT. Windows assumes that your machine time is correct for your time zone. So each time you switch operating systems the time is wrong in one of the systems. The fix is to tell Windows that your machine time is GMT (universal...
by Aaron Crabtree | Oct 6, 2014 | Apple, MacOS
So you’ve installed Windows 7 on your Mac using Boot camp. Then you decide that you need more space on your Windows partition. So you use the Mac’s Disk Utility on the partition tab to shrink the MacOS partition. Then you fire up a live CD of GParted to...
by Aaron Crabtree | Aug 14, 2012 | Apple, Blog, MacOS
There are lots of reviews about the new features that Apple included in their latest OS X release, Mountain Lion but not much talk about running it on older Macs. I hope to explain some of the details to you. First of all, this is the first version of OS X that...
by Aaron Crabtree | Mar 9, 2012 | Apple, Blog, Data backup, MacOS, PC Hardware
If you want to connect a hard drive to your Apple Airport Extreme router, you need to format it using the the GUID Partition Table (GPT) and format the partition as Apple Filing System (AFS) journeled. The problem is that Disk Utility formats external drives as Master...
