Category: 893: Flying With Phones, The Black Magic of DiskWarrior, PRAM and SMC Resets

PRAM and SMC Resets: What are they? Both are sets of chips that live on a Mac’s main logic board. They hold information that can become corrupted under certain circumstances which can then cause performance issues. Before resetting the PRAM or SMC for troubleshooting, you should be sure to disconnect any peripherals to ensure that…

“*DiskWarrior*”:http://www.alsoft.com/diskwarrior/ is a software tool that focuses entirely on rebuilding corrupted or destroyed directories on solid state hard drives that have experienced failure. This could mean power failure, RAM failure, OS corruption from failed updates, or anything that could harm the directory structure of data. Recently, DiskWarrior’s ability to temporarily create a virtual directory that…

For years, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has prevented passengers from using electronics on airplanes, largely during the takeoff and landing procedures. Particularly frustrating have been instances such as Kindle use, where the E-Ink device isn’t using any power or doing anything when a page is loaded, and uses technology comparable to a digital…

There’s something to be said for positivity. It’s oh so easy to grow angry out of frustration with product failure that we forget how far computing has come in the last few years. Yes, the last few years…not the last five or even the last decade. Most of you have no doubt encountered Moore’s Law,…