This story started a few weeks ago following a comment by Adam on the MacGeekGab podcast about settings changing without your knowledge. I wrote to the show about a similar issue I had where I found the firewall on both of my Macs was turned off. For years I assumed they were on. I wrote… Continue reading I found more weird settings in my Apple devices, this time involving AirTags.
I recently got an M4 Mac Mini and ran migration assistant to move everything from the M2 Mini being replaced. In getting a new machine I has downsized from 512 GB to 256 GB SSD. A month into the new machine, via iStat Menus, I received a message telling my hard drive was nearly full.… Continue reading Dude, where’s my storage? Clean My #Mac knew!
I was listening to the MacGeekGab today, and one of the co-hosts, Adam Christianson, mentioned the situation where, for whatever reason, some software switches in the OS or app settings flip, as in what was on goes off, or vice versa, or a different option is selected, without the owner or admin knowing. By accident,… Continue reading Don’t get caught – check if your Mac firewall settings are on.
I was listening to Mac Geek Gab #1160 and the host, Dave, was speaking about issues his outlaws (in-laws) were having with their home networking. They were paying for 1 Gbps down, but Speedtest.net was showing their speed as being 200 to 400 Mbps over wifi. Dave quite rightly pointed out that if they connected… Continue reading Quick networking tip – Check out the functionality of the app for your router – it may have a built-in wired speed test.