The 2021 generation of the MacBook Pro 14″ and 16″ can reach a maximum brightness of 1,600 nits selectively and 1,000 nits over the entire surface - at least for HDR content. In regular use, the brightness is limited to 500 nits. "Vivid" is a small app that enables HDR brightness permanently in other applications as well. Thereby, ...
If you want to calibrate an external monitor on a Mac with Apple M1 (Pro & Max are also affected) using DisplayCAL and a colorimeter like a datacolor Spyder 5, you will soon face the problem that DisplayCAL does not recognize the external display. The solution is simple. DisplayCal uses the Argyll Color Management System, short ArgyllCMS. Included is ...
mobilcom-debitel has published an interesting offer under the brand "Freenet FUNK": for 99 cents a day you get unlimited Internet with LTE speed. There are a few special features. The management from the order is done completely via an app (for Android and iOS). Post- or Video-Ident does not have to be carried out, it is enough the identity card number as well as ...
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Those who use MacOS will usually also use the timemachine backup. However, if the backup is to be encrypted, there are a few tricks that can be used to avoid a slow timemachine backup.
An encrypted backup is recommended because modern Macs automatically encrypt the drives using the built-in T2 chip. If the backup were to remain unencrypted, this would pose a security risk if the backup hard disk were to be lost.
If you want to equip a Macbook Pro from model year 2016 with more ports, you usually need a docking station. With the Thunderbolt 3 Pro Dock, Elgato offers a variant that leaves hardly any wishes unfulfilled.
Apple has released iOS 11.4, introducing new features. This mainly affects HomePod users, but iMessage has also been improved. Apple thus delivers functions that were already announced at the presentation of iOS 11. Especially Apple's "smart" speakers, the HomePods, benefit, as stereo is now possible with a pair of the devices. Also new is ...
Currently, there are reports that Apple throttles the CPU clock on devices whose battery is no longer the fittest. This results in a constant runtime, but the device becomes noticeably slower. For some time now, there have been postings that iPhones are getting slower over time, especially with new iOS versions. For this, there now seems to be a ...
After I already relied on the Miniot case for the iPhone 6s (in mahogany), I decided to go for the oak version for the iPhone 7. The Miniot iWood 7 "Oak" case is very precisely manufactured in Holland. No matter which wood you choose, it is always sourced from certified sources - so you don't have to worry about ...
When using a FreeNAS share with macOS, it creates different Finder metadata directories for each regular directory. To keep a backup to external media as lean as possible, this data can be deleted, which is most easily done using a command at the Linux command prompt: find . -name ".Apple*" -type d -prune -exec rm -r {} + So that ...
Apple has released iOS 10.3 today. The official innovations are quite limited, but users of an iDevice should install the update for security reasons alone. Not included in the update description is the new file system APFS ("Apple File System"), which will eventually be used on all Apple devices. The new file system is supposed to be optimized especially for flash memory ...
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