Disable MacBook Pro 2011 Discrete GPU (Faulty) - Mac OS High Sierra 10.13

Disable MacBook Pro 2011 Discrete GPU (Faulty) - Mac OS High Sierra 10.13 Disable & Repair MacBook Pro 2011 Bad GPU

This article outlines your real world options to correct a faulty GPU graphics card on a MacBook Pro 2011. The AMD Graphics card for most MacBook Pro's manufactured in 2011 are known to have issues after 5-7 years of use. First, let’s understand the expected behavior of a failing to failed MacBook Pro 2011 AMD 6750...

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Easy: Mac Terminal to Cisco Router / Switch (Serial to Cisco Router Using Terminal)

Easy: Mac Terminal to Cisco Router / Switch (Serial to Cisco Router Using Terminal)

You can quickly create a serial console connection to any Cisco device using a USB to serial adapter cable using the Mac Terminal app without any kind of special configuration. Using Mac Terminal app is the easiest way, since it avoids you downloading and installing 3rd party utilities which aren’t maintained as frequently for Mac OS...

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Mac OS Mail Gmail Accounts Suddenly All Prompting Passwords Not Accepting – High Sierra

Mac OS Mail Gmail Accounts Suddenly All Prompting Passwords Not Accepting – High Sierra

When I opened Mac OS X Mail app recently, I noticed all my Gmail accounts offline and a notification message for each account requiring me to enter in my password again. At first, I didn’t think this was too odd because I was behind a new Internet Service Provider (ISP, see IP address) and I thought...

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Easy: Audacity Remove Silence Between Tracks

Easy: Audacity Remove Silence Between Tracks

If you are trying to cleanup excess “silence” between audio tracks in a mixed audio file, Audacity has a useful feature to automatically remove all silence between joined audio tracks. This allows you to re-save the audio file with no skipping or silence.   The quick and (dirty) method: In Audacity, Import your single audio file...

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Fix: Error Occurred While Converting the File iTunes (-50)

Fix: Error Occurred While Converting the File iTunes (-50)

You may receive an error while trying to convert an audio file in iTunes. In addition, iTunes may successfully convert the audio file, but it plays distorted.   Error occurred while converting the file “”. An unknown error occurred (-50).   Verify you have an iTunes Media folder location selected in iTunes Preferences -> Advanced.  If you...

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