Creating a Bootable macOS Catalina Install Drive with DiskMaker X 9

My recent experience with water damage to my new 16-inch MacBook Pro reinforced two practices that I’ve followed for many years; making a bootable backup and creating a bootable macOS install drive. While I was able to reload my MacBook from the boo…

How to Enable and Disable Favicons in macOS Catalina

With macOS Mojave, Apple has added support for favicons (short for “favorite icons”) in Safari tabs. Favicons are those little icons that let you quickly identify which of your open tabs is which website. A favicon is a file containing one or more s…

Use the Mac’s Energy Saver Preference Pane

By making some adjustments in the Energy Saver preference pane, you can better tune your Mac to run at peak performance, save energy, reduce potential data loss when power fails, and extend the runtime and battery life of portable Macs. In this Roc…

OWC Showcases Innovation, Technology and Performance Solutions at NAMM Show 2020

Touch, See, and Demo the newest storage, connectivity, software and expansion solutions for musicians, producers and photographers at Booth #11902. OWC has solidified its plans for The NAMM Show, taking place January 16-19 at the Anaheim Convention …

How to Use Stacks in macOS Leopard Through Catalina

Stacks are a feature found introduced in macOS Leopard (although the official name at the time was “Mac OS X Leopard). The feature “Stacks” files into a small organized folder on the Dock. The Mac Desktop is a convenient place to save files, and Sta…

OWC RADiO: Matt Bach – How to Build an Awesome PC

Puget Systems is based in Seattle and specializes in building high quality, custom-built desktops, workstations, and servers. OWC Radio Host, Cirina Catania, talks to Matt Bach, Senior Labs Technician, for an in-depth conversation about the latest t…

CES 2020: OWC Highlights From the Week

OWC finished up a week of showcasing several new products, meeting with hundreds of customers and vendors, and participating in press junkets galore at CES 2020 in Las Vegas. CES is the world’s gathering place for all those who thrive on the busines…

Water and MacBooks Don’t Mix: A Cautionary Tale

December of 2019 marks 35 years since I purchased my first Mac. In all that time, I’ve never had an accident with any of them…but this past Saturday, all it took was a simple bump of a glass of water on my desk, and now my new 16-inch MacBook Pro is…

How to Use Safe Mode in macOS Catalina

Your Mac has a "Safe Mode" designed to help when you run into trouble with your computer. It's a diagnostic mode of macOS that boots up your desktop or laptop without any other apps running. Here's how it works.

How to Use macOS​ Recovery in macOS Catalina

macOS Recovery is part of the built-in recovery system of your Mac. It can help you restore data from Time Machine, reinstall the operating system, get online help online, repair or erase a hard disk, and much more. You can start up from macOS Recov…

OWC RADiO: Josh Meyers – Geeking Out On Long-Form Doc Workflow

Join OWC Radio Host, Cirina Catania as she talks workflow and story for the Netflix original feature documentary, “The Pursuit,” with Josh Meyers, the head of post-production and co-founder of Emergent Order. Josh has worked in the film and broadcas…

The Other World – Episode 229

Another Industry First for OWC Memory – Maxing Out the iMac Pro

Larry O'Connor, Founder and CEO of OWC, is pleased to announce yet another industry first for the company. Maxing out iMac Pro memory. “Recently, we confirmed and began offering up to 1TB of memory for the 8, 12, and 16-Core 2019 Mac Pro models. A …

OWC Confirms 1TB of Memory in the 8, 12, and 16-Core Mac Pro!

If you were hoping to hit the 1TB level of RAM with the new Mac Pro, you were likely disappointed to see on Apple’s Mac Pro page that you couldn’t purchase the 8-core base model. Instead, you needed to upgrade three levels to the 24-core machine, co…

Unboxing and a First Look Inside the 2019 Mac Pro

We are hard at work filming the unboxing of the New Mac Pro, but thought we could at least start posting a few pictures to hold you over. Keep your eyes on this page – we’ll continue to update this post with photos as Alex and Brady enjoy their new …

Moving From Bash to Zsh: Terminal Changes in macOS Catalina

macOS Catalina has a number of new features and capabilities, but one change that’s often overlooked is the new shell used in Terminal to interact with the Mac via the command line. The quick take away is Apple is moving from the Bash (Bourne Agai…

How to Increase or Decrease the Zoom Level in macOS Safari

Sometimes when I'm viewing an article (usually involving patent images) in Safari, it's hard to view an entire image. However, you can increase or decrease the zoom level of images (and text) when viewing web pages in the macOS web browser.

OWC RADiO: Vortex, Part 2 – Mesmerica 360

Ed Lantz and Mark Laisure, from the team at Vortex Immersion Media, join OWC RADiO host Cirina Catania. They share their experience working with Dr. Jancy McPhee, and Larry O'Connor of OWC, to help bring the Humans in Space Art Competition to the wo…

2019 Holiday Shipping Cutoffs @ MacSales.com

It’s that time of year again. Time for plenty of holiday deals at MacSales.com! Whether it’s a pair of Apple Beats Studio2 Wireless Headphones, an Apple HomePod with SIRI, an $8.88 pair of Apple EarPods, or a 15″ MacBook Pro with Touchbar for under …

Introducing the ThunderBay 4 mini

Four 2.5-inch drive bays, up to 16TB capacity, SoftRAID setup, and management software, and real-world speeds up to 1556MB/s in a pro-grade, super-compact Thunderbolt 3 or Thunderbolt 2 storage solution!  Today OWC announced the availability of the …

OWC Maxes Out the New 2019 Mac Pro and Saves Users Big

The newest Mac Pro from Apple features upgradeable memory slots for up to 1.5TB, and OWC is offering customers extraordinary savings off factory upgrade prices. New Mac Pro owners can save up to 65% on memory upgrades through OWC’s Memory trade-in r…