Category: 953: macOS; Other Space Part 2; Netflix Throttling; Quibbles and Bytes

Storage capacity is one of the more confusing topics in the technology world. I have had many frustrated people ask me why their new 500-gigabyte external hard drive is actually only stores 465 gigabytes. It can be confusing, but there are actually different definitions of digital storage units depending on who you are asking. There…

Whether you watch Netflix on your iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, or *gasp* a Windows PC, the quality of the video, how long it takes to load, and whether it stutters or skips is primarily determined by the bandwidth of your Internet connection. Netflix recommends 25 megabits per second (Mbps) of download speed for Ultra…

Welcome to part 2 of last issue’s exploration of *Other space* from the *Storage tab* in *About This Mac*. If you followed all the directions from last time, and are still seeing lots and lots of Other space, there are a few more things you can do. One of the things I do on a…

_Hello Fellow Technophiles,_ As expected, Apple unveiled their new operating systems at this week’s Apple World Wide Developer Conference. There were also rumors that we would see hardware announcements, but this was not the case. The biggest change is that Apple will no longer be referring to the OS on the Mac as OS X.…