The best disk clone apps for Mac in 2023
A handful of macOS apps let you make near-exact copies of your Mac's storage devices, which can be handy for backing up in case of a data emergency.
Chip is a 30-year Apple industry veteran, is author of 18 commercial Mac software products, and is a former Apple and Sony employee. He began hacking away on Apple computers on the Apple II+ in high school in the mid 1980's, then moved on to the Mac in the early 90's. In a previous life he created the game developer audio tools for Playstation 2 at Sony, and worked on the New World OpenFirmware found in late 90's Macs.
A handful of macOS apps let you make near-exact copies of your Mac's storage devices, which can be handy for backing up in case of a data emergency.
If you're feeling the pinch of limited storage capacity on your Mac, these disk space analyzer apps could help you see how it has been consumed, and potentially free some space up too.
Orico has made a clever external 2.5-inch USB enclosure with a retro cassette design that is inexpensive and fun to use.
A vintage Apple 30-inch Cinema Display can be used as your second or main display on your modern Mac. Here's how to hook it up.
You can easily keep tabs on what's running on your Mac and get things running smoothly by using Apple's Activity Monitor. Here's how to get started.
Today, RAID is fast and can speed up drive access on your Mac. Here's how to get started building your own, inexpensively.
Little Snitch 5.5 is an app which allows you to track, allow, and deny network connections on your Mac — and it's not for everybody.
By using Console and Finder, you can clear your Mac Startup Disk of old logs and crash reports to save space. Here's how to do it.
Homebrew, the macOS package manager, has been updated to version 4.0, and includes speed enhancements, improvements to automatic updates, and more.
Old Macs still have a lot to offer in terms of usage and functionality. Here's how to keep your old Mac minis running like new.
There have been varying reports of the mediaanalysisd background process causing excessive CPU usage in macOS when scanning photos. Here's what it is, what it does, and how to stop it.
Running 1980s home computer software on your modern Mac is fun, but can be done in many different ways. Here's how to run retro Atari, Sinclair, and Commodore software on the latest hardware.
If you always wanted a pile of old Apple hardware, a retro computing website is selling its vast lot of old Macs, displays, drives, printers and Mac paraphernalia.
Mastodon is a new, distributed social network which uses decentralized servers — and an enterprising developer has ported a client to run on a 30-year old Mac operating system.
Wine is a Windows API compatibility layer which allows you to run Windows software on modern computers. Here's how to get started.
While old Apple hardware is mostly long-gone, there are ways to run some of your antique software on your current Mac. Here's how to get started emulating old Apple computers on your new machine.
File compression on the Mac has been around since nearly as long has the line itself has. Here are our top picks for squeezing files down as small as they can go on macOS and iOS.
Secure Copy is a UNIX standard used to transfer files from one computer to another. He's how to use the function in macOS, all via the Terminal window.
Apple's iCloud file storage service is a handy way to store and share files, but it can remove important file attributes during sync. Here's how to fix that.
Apple added a few new AI-based selection tools to Photos in iOS 16 and Preview in macOS Ventura that allow you to select a subject of a photo and extract it from the image. Here's how to use them.
In a previous article, we looked at connecting various kinds of Arduino hardware to your Mac. Here's how to get started programming on them to create your own projects.
Arduino is an inexpensive, small electronics platform for makers. Here's how to get started with it on macOS.
Haiku OS, a modern clone of BeOS, is an interesting look back at what Apple once considered to advance its Mac operating system.
Although .dmg is a macOS disk format, there are a number reasons of why you'd want open them on Windows computers. Here's how to get started.
Stacks and Quick Look are handy features in the macOS Finder that can help speed up your workflow. Here's how to get started using them.
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