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How to Disable Macbook Webcam

How to Disable Macbook Webcam without Hassles Why on earth would you want to disable the crystal clear Macbook webcam – the point of pride for the device? HD, color balanced and amazingly lifelike, it brings video chat sessions to life and is a boon for telecommuters. But everything in life tends to have a flipside. And so does the Macbook webcam. If you have input the query “how to disable Macbook webcam” .

Using Apple Pay on Mac

Using Apple Pay on Mac: The Most Secure Payment Processing Available So you are looking into using Apple Pay on Mac. Say, you are browsing the net. Suddenly an ad pops up for a beautiful pair of wireless headphones that you had been hankering after for a very long time. You decide to take the plunge. You go to the site, add the item to the cart and then comes the arduous part. .

How to Batch Change File Extensions in Mac

How to Batch Change File Extensions in Mac Saving You Tons of Time What is a file extension? And why would you need to change it for your Mac files? Once done, how do you batch change file extensions in Mac? Is changing a file extension the same as converting the file to a different format? Do you need to change file extensions manually or is there a sure-fire way to tackle this task in .

How to Clean Up iTunes Library

How to Clean Up iTunes Library in 4 Easy Steps Your iTunes library is the gateway and guardian for all of the music you love; however, has it gotten out of hand? When you first began using iTunes to house music, it was a simple, clean location where picking a song to listen to only took a few seconds. Over time, as more and more music gets added, this media storage location becomes .

Screen Video Capture Mac

How to Quickly Perform Screen Video Capture on a Mac Screen video capture, or a screencast, is the process of capturing a set of actions on a computer over a set timeframe. The process offers users a way to digitally record something on their screen with or without supporting audio. Most computers offer built-in options to capture screen video and there are also a number of applications you can install for the same purpose. .

How to Speed Up Mac OS Sierra

How to Speed Up Mac OS Sierra: Enjoying the Upgrades Without the Frustration If you are reading this article, it is likely that you are disillusioned. Even disappointed! Your expectations have been dashed, right? The vaunted Sierra is not as great as the hype suggested. Now that you have bid adieu to your old operating system (OS) for the new bells and whistles, you are having to make do with slow speed, poor .

How to Migrate to a New Mac

How to Migrate to a New Mac: 2 Ways, Their Pros & Cons Purchasing a new Mac laptop is a moment of pride for all Apple users. But with this jubilation comes the logistics of facilitating the transition. In short, you must transfer your existing data from the old Apple computer to the brand new device. If you have gone through this process several times, you have your own set of preferences to .

Mac Security Tips

Mac Security Tips – 5 Fool Proof Tips on How to Keep Your Mac Safe and Secure We live in an uber connected world today. We are always riding the waves of the Internet when interacting with our friends, family members and acquaintances who live across the globe from us! From remote working to remote viewing, we can access resources and people in a way that was unthinkable even a decade ago. But this .

Tips and Tricks to Improve Macbook Battery Life

Tips & Tricks to Improve Macbook Battery Life: Work Longer Without External Power You are enjoying the latest season of Game of Thrones. Just when your favorite character is about to die (or stab someone else – we aren’t judging), your Macbook battery becomes critically low. Of course you are feeling too lazy to go plug in the machine to an external power source. Or worse, you are traveling and are stuck without an .

How to Free Up Storage on Mac

How to Free Up Storage on Mac: 5 Tips that Always Work Mac users swear by the power, flexibility and speed of their Apple devices. But despite all the bells and whistles that Mac OS equipped laptops and computers come with, a limited space solid state hard disk can only go so far in terms of storage. Whether you are a streamlined Apple evangelist with just one disk partition or a power user .

How to Recover Mac Files from Encrypted Hard Drive

An encrypted hard drive ensures unauthorized users are not able to access the data, but what happens when something goes wrong with a drive such as unexpected corruption? If the drive is inaccessible, how can you get the data back? How do you recover Mac files from encrypted hard drive? The easiest way involves using a recovery utility capable of locating the data and saving it to another location. These applications scan the drive to .

DIY Data Recovery

DIY Data Recovery: Good Idea or Not? Data recovery is important business. We live in the digital age where each and every individual is responsible for generating copious volumes of information every day. We only need to take a peek at the laptops and storage devices of high school students and we can easily conclude that a highly vulnerable potpourri of personal details, general wisdom, social tidbits and professional data is found almost .

Recover Data From Unreadable Mac Hard Drive

Easy Way to Recover Data From Unreadable Mac Hard Drive Has this ever happened to you? You start up your Mac computer but can’t access the hard drive because ‘the location is not available’. The first reaction is panic because our data is mostly stored in hard disk partitions and folders. Very few people are regular with their backups and for an instant it seems like the images, videos, files and software solutions are lost .

Using Time Machine on Mac

Using Time Machine on Mac: What is the Time Machine & How to Restore Data From It Research conducted by companies of repute shows that data loss is a global phenomenon that runs to the tune of 1.7 trillion dollars every year. Obviously this covers both the losses faced by individuals and businesses. But taken together, the figure makes a compelling case for the practice of data backup. Apple is Always a .

Computer Virus Information

Computer Virus Information: What is a Virus, the 5 Most Common Computer Viruses & Ways to Protect Yourself Viruses are something human beings have always been wary of. Think of biological viruses. What comes to mind? The little critters are immune to the effect of antibiotics; they seriously sap your energy and are capable of making you lie low for weeks. You can’t really “cure” a virus. You can just take preemptive measures .