Linked: How to safely erase your iPad, iPhone or Mac before returning it
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Linked: How to safely erase your iPad, iPhone or Mac before returning it

If you got a new iPhone, iPad or MacBook device for the holidays this year, great for you. I hope you really enjoy your new device. If you’re considering what to do with your old device, there are a lot of choices. You could try and sell it, you could give it a friend or…

Linked – There’s no way to recover data from the new MacBook Pros if something breaks
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Linked – There’s no way to recover data from the new MacBook Pros if something breaks

“Of course, this entire problem stems from Apple’s original decision to use solid-state storage soldered directly onto the logic board, rather than the removable modules that were found in MacBook Pros for a decade. Complaining about Apple’s decision to move away from user-replaceable parts is, of course, not a new thing, but this is a…

Linked – Huge security flaw lets anyone log into a High Sierra Mac
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Linked – Huge security flaw lets anyone log into a High Sierra Mac

Update 11/29 – looks like Apple has released a patch. Whoa… “Wow, this is a bad one. On Macs running the latest version of High Sierra — 10.13.1 (17B48) — it appears that anyone can log in just by putting “root” in the user name field. This is a huge, huge problem. Apple will fix…

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Linked – Use Both Windows and a Mac? Use These Tweaks and Work Smarter

Yeah, I go back and forth all the time, and there a couple of things that I commonly forget, so I’m sharing this for all of us who have to go back and forth between a Mac and a PC because of our professional duties. Heck, this article is worth taking a look at just…