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 3 rd party utilities which aren’t maintained as frequently for Mac...

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...

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...

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...

You can easily compress multiple files or folders into   separate ZIP files . This saves time from having to right-click each file or folder and choose compress . Follow the steps below.   Open Archive Utility.app in /System/Library/CoreServices/Applications/ or by searching for it in Spotlight search.     Go to file menu Archive Utility ->...

When Apple discontinued their 17” MacBook Pro line, many Apple fans held onto a glimmer of hope it might one day return. Since then, (nearly 7 years as of this article) online petitions requested Apple to bring back their 17” laptop screen, but these petitions had little support. The last official 17” MacBook Pro model released...

When you browse a website in Chrome , Safari , or Firefox , you notice an odd website appearing in your URL bar first before actually visiting the website you intended to. This is known as a URL redirect and something in your browser is causing this to happen randomly for sites you try to visit....

When you attempt a Mac OS X system recovery (boot holding command + r ) , you get a message this item is temporarily unavailable and it prevents you from completing a re-install of the OS. Some online reports suggest to login to iCloud from Safari by backing out of the installation and selecting Get Help...