Disable AutoBoot

Ever since 2016 when you open the lid of your Apple laptop whether it’s an Apple MacBook Air or MacBook Pro it will automatically turn on and boot into macOS. If for whatever reason you need to disable it you…

How to Change Service Order for Network Interfaces

There are times that you might need to change the Service Order for your network interfaces in macOS. By default the primacy NIC adapter is the LAN adapter which usually is detected as en0. On devices like MacBook Air or…

Enable Write Access to TimeMachine Backup Disks

Many of us use TimeMachine as a backup strategy for our Mac. I’ve been using it for as long as Apple introduced it back in 2007. But ever since macOS Big Sur Apple revamped TimeMachine to improve APFS support and…

Building OCLP Alpha for macOS Ventura

Here’s how to build OpenCore Legacy Patcher for installing macOS Ventura on unsupported Macs. In this guide I will explain how to build OpenCore Legacy Patcher 0.5.0 Alpha and install macOS Ventura on a Late 2013 13” MacBook Pro which…

Network Speed Test

If you wonder how fast your network speed is there are few sites and tools available and you already may know some or all of them. But there’s a built-in test in macOS Monterey which can be accessed from Terminal.…

Mac OS Classic

Before Apple released their new and shiny Mac OS X (Mac OS 10) we used to use other versions of Mac OS which is called Mac OS Classic now. The whole architecture and the design was quite different but you…

What is Rosetta?

When Apple transitioned from PowerPC architecture to Intel back in 2006 they developed a dynamic binary translator called Rosetta. Rosetta made the transition from PowerPC to intel possible by dynamically translating instruction set architectures from one architecture to another. Rosetta…

What is SIP?

System Integrity Protection (SIP) in macOS protects the entire system by preventing the execution of unauthorized code. The system automatically authorizes apps that the user downloads from the App Store. The system also authorizes apps that a developer notarizes and…