Smart Folders have been around in one form or another since OS X Tiger. For a while, the Finder’s sidebar included a dedicated Search For section, with predefined Smart Folders that displayed apps and documents you used "Today," "Yesterday," or "Pas…
Lees meerTo use Siri, Apple’s “personal digital assistant,” on your Mac, you can click on the icon in the upper right corner of your screen to activate it. But wouldn’t it be nice if, like on an iPhone and Apple Watch, you could simply say “Hey, Siri” to fir…
Lees meermacOS Quick Look is a wonderful feature. Introduced on June 11, 2007, along with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Quick Look can preview files such as Pages, Keynote, Numbers, Microsoft Office, PDFs, HTML, QuickTime readable media, plain text, and RTF text d…
Lees meerSome of Apple’s MacBook Pros (including the 16-incher) and the most recent MacBook Air come with the controversial Touch Bar. Some folks don’t like it, but I’m a fan. If you are, too, you can customize it. If you’re not familiar with it, the Touch B…
Lees meerOliver Peters is a successful independent editor/colorist and workflow consultant. He talks with OWC RADiO host, Cirina Catania, about his five decades working in broadcast production and post, and offers a wealth of important tips for media produce…
Lees meerI recently purchased a 16-inch MacBook and immediately enabled Touch ID, which is available on most MacBook Pros and the latest MacBook Air. It lets you quickly unlock your Mac and make purchases using your Apple ID and Apple Pay with your fingerpri…
Lees meerThis past December, OWC announced its available memory options for the 2019 Mac Pro Tower. They now confirm compatibility with the 2019 Mac Pro Rack, offering up to 1.5TB of memory for the 24-core and 28-core Mac Pro 2019 and up to 1.0TB of OWC mem…
Lees meerAdam Blackstone of BASSic Black Entertainment and Musical Director for Justin Timberlake, Janet Jackson, Rihanna, and the 2020 Super Bowl Halftime show, talks about how OWC products are an essential part of his musical workflow. He is particularly f…
Lees meerI don’t know about you, but I use Apple’s iCloud Drive a lot. Subscribing to a full 2TB of storage for my wife and me, we store everything out there — scanned documents, all of our photos, you name it. On the iPhone and iPad, there’s a Files app tha…
Lees meerSpam®. The word conjures up the Hormel spiced ham product that is popular in Hawaii and other parts of the world. Spam gained even more fame and fortune in the 1970s as the memorable subject of a sketch and song by the British Monty Python comedy tr…
Lees meerTechnology trailblazer, OWC, has announced a new sponsorship for 2020 with Jam in the Van, which kicked off during The NAMM Show, held last month at the Anaheim Convention Center. Jam in the Van is a mobile recording studio that travels the country,…
Lees meerSpam®. The word conjures up the Hormel spiced ham product that is popular in Hawaii and other parts of the world. Spam gained even more fame and fortune in the 1970s as the memorable subject of a sketch and song by the British Monty Python comedy tr…
Lees meerWith a subscription to Apple News+, you can access hundreds of magazines, newspapers, and digital publishers in the News app on your Mac, iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. And if you use Family Sharing, everyone in your family automatically has access af…
Lees meerHaving grown up in Illinois and Wisconsin, I didn’t really have a horse in the big race, which pretty much meant being able to kick back, enjoy the football, food, and of course, the commercials. I teared up at Google’s Loretta, loved the message fr…
Lees meerApple’s controversial Touch Bar on some Mac laptops is actually a second, mini-display. Which means you can take a screenshot of whatever it’s displaying. Some folks think the Touch Bar is a waste of space and don't like that it adds to the ticket …
Lees meerIf you're having problems with sound on some web pages when using macOS’s Safari (or simply don’t want to hear audio on a particular web page) the web browser lets you mute audio in any open tabs. Here's how...
Lees meerCirina Catania, OWC RADiO host, talks with Neill Barham, CEO, the guiding visionary behind FiLMiC Inc., and the primary architect of FiLMiC Pro. With the advent of the iPhone 4 and its ability to shoot high definition video, Neill Barham saw a visio…
Lees meerOccasionally customers who purchased the Accelsior 4M2 ask if it’s possible to “set aside” one of the four installed M.2 SSDs as a macOS boot volume, while the remaining three are used as a RAID 0. This setup will reduce the maximum performance leve…
Lees meerGatekeeper, part of the Mac’s security system for ensuring files you download or install on your Mac are safe to use, has been around in one form or another for quite a while. Primarily intended to prevent various forms of malware from infecting the…
Lees meermacOS’s Night Shift is a feature brought over from iOS starting with macOS High Sierra. It helps you reduce the amount of blue light you’re exposed to during the evening by shifting the display of your Mac to a more yellow tone. The idea behind Nigh…
Lees meerLarry O’Connor, OWC Founder & CEO, catches up with OWC RADiO Host Cirina Catania at CES 2020. The resulting conversation will come at you fast and furious! Whether you’re an advanced home user or you manage a high-end studio, this podcast gives you …
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