Category: 900: How iOS Touch Screens Work, To Clone Or To Backup, Disable Window Animations in Terminal

If you have an older Mac and have updated it to more current software and feel that the machine is just not responding as quickly as it used to, this could be a useful trick for you. The newer operating systems utilize a lot of animation features that are very slick with a machine powerful…

The Small Dog Electronics service department regularly uses adapters to connect internal Apple solid state drives (SSD) to our backup and recovery hardware. Particularly the MacBook Air SSDs available since 2010. However, since the advent of the 2013 Haswell chipsets, hardware to connect the new SSD interface has been unavailable. In the past, Other World…

The benefits to cloning software versus back up software is something measured in time. How technologically savvy you are tends to guide you toward one or the other. Currently, my workstation here at Small Dog in South Burlington has a failing hard drive. Since everything is backed up to our remote management server, I’m not…

Back in the day, I owned a Palm Pilot and recall the touch screen behaving far differently than iOS devices in that pressure was required (and felt) to signal the processor. This type of digitizer is called a “resistive screen,” and takes advantage of finger or stylus pressure causing two thin layers to come into…

Greetings Again! I hope you enjoy another week of Tech Tails and learn a little something. We have some very interesting articles for you this week. I am one of the technicians in the Manchester, NH store, and one thing I always seem to notice is how little people backup their data. Unfortunately, since most…