Category: 861: Raspberry Pi, Privatize Your Personal Data, A Fresh Start

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Some issues on your Mac can be resolved by reinstalling the operating system. In the past, all Mac desktops and portables came with a dedicated recovery disc for that machine, but Macs shipping with 10.7 (OS X Lion) or later do not come with recovery discs. These newer machines have the recovery files on a…

It’s useful to know, as a Mountain Lion user, what private data specific applications are accessing, and how to set/reset that. This can be achieved in the *Security & Privacy* preference pane within System Preferences, but changes can also be made within Terminal. Using the @tccutil@ command, the user can reset all access to different…

For those of you innovators out there looking for your next project, here’s something recently brought to my attention: the do-it-yourself Raspberry Pi. Developers out there have been able to take the modern day computer and make it even smaller. Imagine taking a Mac mini and sticking it in a case the size of an…

Hello all, I know I said that I liked the end result of DST last week, but this weekend brought home the reality of just how miserable the transition can be. Last night while making dinner, I looked out the window and saw that I had enough light to see every yard project that I…