Category: 908: Showing Users folder in Mavericks, Yellowed Plastic, iPhone’s Mysterious “Other” Data

If you’ve ever filled your iPhone to capacity, you may have suddenly noticed a gray section of stored data titled “Other” in iTunes. What could this mysterious data be? Well, there could be a couple things that could be contributing to it, but the most likely culprits are your apps. More specifically, one culprit: iMessage.…

I was recently gifted an old Macintosh SE in need of some love. In addition, it came with a keyboard and mouse. All three pieces have some of that “classic” yellowing. These old computers and other electronic hardware many of us know and love have a serious disadvantage. The flame retardant chemical additives in the…

As a tech, I like to know where things are stored and have fairly simple ways to get to them. If you’re like I am, you may have found the fact that the Users folder is now hidden by default at the root level to be a nuisance. Using this simple Terminal command, you can…

Small Dog Key West’s star technician and assistant manager, Taylor Amon, could often be heard saying the following: “The internet is a silly place.” And I don’t think I’ve encountered anything as silly as “Zack Danger Brown’s Kickstarter project”:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/324283889/potato-salad which is simply…potato salad. Seriously. The project started with a reasonable goal of $10 to produce…