Category: Troubleshooting

  • 3 Helpful Tech Ideas for Your Thanksgiving Visits

    3 Helpful Tech Ideas for Your Thanksgiving Visits

    Go to OSX Daily to read 3 Helpful Tech Ideas for Your Thanksgiving Visits It’s not unusual for those of us who are the “family geek” to spend time with less tech savvy people during the holidays, so why not use Thanksgiving as an opportunity to assist or improve the tech lives of loved ones?…

  • How to Verify & Repair Mac Disk from Command Line

    How to Verify & Repair Mac Disk from Command Line

    Go to OSX Daily to read How to Verify & Repair Mac Disk from Command Line The Disk Utility application on MacOS has a command line counterpart, that allows Mac users to run disk maintenance and disk administration tasks, including verifying and repairing disks. There are obvious advantages and benefits to using the command line…

  • Messages Using High CPU on Mac, Slowing Performance: 6 Troubleshooting Tips

    Messages Using High CPU on Mac, Slowing Performance: 6 Troubleshooting Tips

    Go to OSX Daily to read Messages Using High CPU on Mac, Slowing Performance: 6 Troubleshooting Tips If your Mac feels excessively slow at random, or unreasonably slow for seemingly no apparent reason, you may want to check to see if the Messages app is open, as the Messages app for Mac has been known…

  • How to change media sync options on iPhone & iPad to make more storage available

    How to change media sync options on iPhone & iPad to make more storage available

    Go to OSX Daily to read How to change media sync options on iPhone & iPad to make more storage available If you’re trying to use a Mac to update iOS on iPhone or iPadOS on iPad, you may see an error message that says something along the lines of “Updating to iOS 17.1 requires…

  • How to Download a Mac App from Github?

    How to Download a Mac App from Github?

    Go to OSX Daily to read How to Download a Mac App from Github? A ton of open source software is available on Github, and many Mac applications are often available to download for free through the Github service as well. And if you read websites like this one and many others in the Apple…

  • Spilled Coffee/Liquid on iPad Magic Keyboard? Here’s What To Do

    Spilled Coffee/Liquid on iPad Magic Keyboard? Here’s What To Do

    Go to OSX Daily to read Spilled Coffee/Liquid on iPad Magic Keyboard? Here’s What To Do We’ve all been there; you’re working away on your iPad with Magic Keyboard, and you knock over a cup of coffee, or a drink gets spilled, and the Magic Keyboard gets splashed or soaked in liquid. Uh oh! Now…

  • How to Recover Recently Deleted Passwords on Mac

    How to Recover Recently Deleted Passwords on Mac

    Go to OSX Daily to read How to Recover Recently Deleted Passwords on Mac Forgetting or losing a password is a hassle, but assuming you save your logins and passwords with iCloud Keychain, that happens less and less. But you can still delete a password or login, whether intentionally or accidentally, and then end up…

  • What is AKAuthorizationRemoteView and akd process on Mac?

    What is AKAuthorizationRemoteView and akd process on Mac?

    Go to OSX Daily to read What is AKAuthorizationRemoteView and akd process on Mac? Some Mac users may discover a process called AKAuthorization, AKAuthorizationRemoteView, “AKAuthorizationRemoteViewService”, and/or akd, running on macOS. Sometimes these process may be taking up inordinate amounts of CPU, which can add to the confusion, or concern. And, it’s not unusual for Mac…

  • How to Remove iOS 17 Beta From Your iPhone & iPad

    How to Remove iOS 17 Beta From Your iPhone & iPad

    Go to OSX Daily to read How to Remove iOS 17 Beta From Your iPhone & iPad If you were part of the iOS 17 beta test or iPadOS 17 beta testing programs, and now you’re on the latest stable build (iOS 17.0.2), you may wish to remove the beta updates from your iPhone or…

  • Is iOS 17 Slow on Your iPhone? Here’s the Fix

    Is iOS 17 Slow on Your iPhone? Here’s the Fix

    Go to OSX Daily to read Is iOS 17 Slow on Your iPhone? Here’s the Fix Has your iPhone or iPad been feeling a bit sluggish since updating to iOS 17 or iPadOS 17? You’re not alone, this happens to many users after major system software updates. Normally, updating should make your device faster, but…