How to mine Crypto Currency with your Mac’s CPU

How to mine Crypto Currency with your Mac’s CPU

So…you want to use that old or new Mac to mine some Crypto? With all the craze in crypto today, it’s everyone’s dream to let their computer do the heavy lifting, mine some random crypto, and then cash it in for money. In this guide, we will you show how to mine Monero (XMR) crypto currency...

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Fix: Mac SOCKS Proxy Keeps Turning On

Fix: Mac SOCKS Proxy Keeps Turning On

Did you discover “SOCKS Proxy” enabled on your network interface (Wi-Fi or Ethernet) every time you reboot your Mac? You did not enable this and it’s causing certain applications to not function correctly, including web browsers like Safari, Google Chrome, and Firefox and you may notice you are visiting pages you did not intend to.  ...

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Fix: Two of the disks to back up have the same name. (Time Machine)

Two of the disks to back up have the same name. (Time Machine)

If you upgraded to macOS Catalina 10.15 and use Time Machine, you may receive an error trying to back up your disk for the first time.   Time machine couldn’t complete the backup to “” Two of the disks back up have the same name. Rename one of the disks named “”.     While some...

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Fix: Mac Mail & Gmail Accounts Slow Message Loading

Fix: Mac Mail & Gmail Accounts Slow Message Loading

We recently migrated Mac Mail to macOS 10.15. We have 10 Gmail IMAP accounts setup in Mac Mail. Each time we opened Mail, our Gmail accounts would take up to 10 minutes to load messages and their bodies. If they were new messages, sometimes it took longer. After some extensive digging, it seems Mac Mail does...

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MacBook Pro 16" AMD Radeon RX 5600M Benchmarks + Gaming + Boot Camp Windows (2020 2.4GHz 64GB 2TB)

MacBook Pro 16' AMD Radeon RX 5600M Benchmarks (2020 2.4GHz 64GB 2TB)

Benchmarking a FULLY LOADED the 2020 MacBook Pro with the new 5600M Radeon Pro graphics card in running Windows 10 & Boot Camp.   * MacBook Pro System (Discounted Fully Loaded 2020 MacBook Pro 16" @ Amazon Buy: https://amzn.to/3guDn2e)* Apple MacBook Pro 16,4 (2020 16" Inch MacBook Pro)* 2.40GHz Intel core i9-9980HK CPU (8Cores 16 Logical Processors 4.4GHz/5GHz,4.1Gh...

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