Which hard drives are most reliable?

Which hard drives are most reliable? BackBlaze, the cloud backup company, uses thousands of drives and keeps track of which makes and models fail. Here are their results for 2020, 2021, 2022. Despite the fact that one Seagate drive has a 0% failure rate, overall we...

Which Hard Drive Should You Buy?

If you need a hard drive, which do you buy? Seagate? Western Digital (WDC)? Toshiba? HGST? BackBlaze, the cloud backup company, buys lots of drives for their cloud servers, and they periodically release statistics on which brands and models have proven most and least...

Maintain Your Mac with Cocktail

Cocktail is a Mac maintenance utility that performs many cleanup tasks. It’s easy to use, and we strongly recommend it to every Mac user. It will speed up your Mac, correct fonts that are not displaying properly, files that display the wrong icons, and many...

Apple Mail Setup

To set up your email account in Apple’s Mail application, follow these steps. Open the Mail application. Click Preferences in the Mail menu. In the Preferences window, click on the Accounts button at the top, then, in the Accounts window, click the + (plus)...