MacBooks increase battery life by lowering the display brightness when in battery mode.
macOS 10.15 Catalina: Switch aptX Bluetooth back on
The aptX codec can be switched on again under macOS 10.15 Catalina for your headphones.
Big Sur Beta Patcher for installation on old Macs
The chances seem good to be able to install macOS 11 Big Sur on old hardware.
Forgot WLAN password? Show and recover on Mac.
You can easily display your WLAN password on macOS – we will show you quickly how to do this.
Still useful? Old Firewire case vs. lame USB stick
We measured the creation time with the Catalina Patcher for a conventional 2.5″ hard drive, once connected via Firewire 800, once via USB 2.0.
macOS Big Sur: ARM processors, HomeKit: Open Source
macOS Big Sur will run on Macs from 2013 and younger, Intel Mac will still be supported
S/MIME encrypted e-mails stored on macOS in plain text
If you need a little more security for your email communication, you might encrypt your mails additionally. Then you should know that the mails under macOS are still stored in...
How to use Aperture, iTunes and iPhoto under macOS Catalina
You like one of the mentioned software packages better than what comes under macOS Catalina? Then we show you how easy it is to run these programs on Apple's latest...
6 Reasons why Apple’s software doesn’t always get better
New software version, new problems? A former Apple developer lists a few reasons. (more…)
Does not start anyore: macOS Catalina might brick your Mac
To brick is the English colloquial expression for the fact that your Mac becomes a brick because it gets unusable. Apparently in some cases this is exactly what happens with...
Reminders App drops CalDAV Support under macOS Catalina
The reminders app loses its ability to be adjusted via CalDAV after an update to the new version. (more…)
macOS Catalina: Possible data loss in Apple Mail
With the current mail version under macOS Catalia there can be data loss. emails can simply disappear. (more…)