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...

After installing or restoring from a Time Machine backup with Mac OS High Sierra 10.13 to a RAID hard drive, the installation or restore may appear to complete and show a startup disk, but when you attempt to boot from it you receive a message running bless to place boot files failed . This is because...

RAID 0 is a popular disk setup solution to achieve the fastest possible read and write disk speeds by splitting data between two or more hard drives. The latest version of Mac OS X High Sierra (10.13) does not allow you to simply install to any kind of RAID configuration. This has frustrated a lot of...

Whenever you drag a file into iMovie , the file is automatically copied and stored inside iMovie’s My Media section for your project. The media file will continue to exist until you decide to go in and manually delete it. It seems iMovie users forget about this. Gradually, as you begin to drag new media to...

Did you accidentally screw up or delete your Mac OS X color display setting  calibration? This is frustrating and there is no easy way to revert back to the old calibration you had. However, you can factory reset your Mac OS X screen display color settings. Follow the steps below.     Open ColorSync Utility in...

The latest version of Mac OS X High Sierra hides the Expert Mode option in the System Preferences Display option. Here is how to to enable expert mode.   Open Display system preferences.   Now, hold down the option or alt key on your keyboard and select Calibrate…       Expert Mode option will appear...

If you are looking to see exactly what your MySQL server is doing (this includes logging of all query’s on your databases) you enable the MySQL general query log. By default, this is disabled in the MAMP my.cnf configuration file. In fact, the general query log directive does not exist in the configuration file of MAMP...