Apple Event October 30th
Apple has sent out invites for an event on October 30th with a tagline of "there’s more in the making,” Rumors say we will finally see an update to the MacBook Air as well as some updates to the iPad Pro. The Verge has some more details on the rumors.
Getting Rid of Your Mac? Here’s How to Securely Erase a Hard Drive or SSD
A very informative post over at the Backblaze blog about how to securely wipe the drive on your mac. What do I do with a Mac that still has personal data on it? Do I take out the disk drive and smash it? Do I sweep it with a really strong magnet? Is there a difference in how I handle a hard drive (HDD) versus a solid-state drive (SSD)? Well, taking a sledgehammer or…
HEIC photo format and your photos
If you have updated to IOS 11 on your iPhone or iPad you may remember being asked if you want to use a high-efficiency way of storing your photos. If you answered yes then your photos started to be stored in a new format HIEC. This format allows much better compression without a reduction in quality to your photos This means you can store far more photos but like many things in life, there is…