Though Intel Macs are a dying breed, many of them still have some juice left with eGPU and dGPU support, so long as their CPUs are up to the tasks. It means Intel Macs still serve as good Windows PCs, possibly for x86 tasks in Windows environment. I won’t go in to details in this…
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How to Disable Checkboxes on File Explorer in Windows 11
On Parallels, especially when it is the only option to run Windows ARM on Mac currently, the installed copy of Windows 11 has some peculiar settings turned on by default. One such settings I found was check boxes. On Parallels-run Windows 11, though previous versions may have had it too, any icons selected would have…
How to Match Months against Current Date on Shortcuts
If you are an avid Shortcuts user, there is a good chance you would want to automate certain things to run quarterly, or semiannually, or perhaps only on specific months of the year — a feature current version of Shortcuts does not have. But a shortcut can be automated to run every month. In other…
Is Desktop the Only Way to Game on PC?
I was in the process of researching and investigating for an op-ed I was preparing for, — FYI, still far away to start writing a draft — and I was hit with a problem much sooner than I thought. Gamers were using “game” as a term quite colloquially. The serious games, as they put it,…
App to Measure Disk Read Write Speeds on macOS
Unlike spinning hard drives of old, SSDs, especially M.2 NVMe, have few more criteria to test throwing out the box. Firstly, the drive may not be capable to perform as the spec says. Secondly, your computer — or any device that will connect to the drive — may have unforeseen bottleneck somewhere. At any rate,…
Apple One Needs Proper Single-User Plan
If you are subscribing to Apple Music on Apple ecosystem, at one point you must have considered subscribing to Apple One instead. The bundled subscription plan does have its merits. For one, the supposed “individual” plan already includes all the popular Apple Music and Apple TV+ with the 50GB iCloud storage. Apple Arcade is like…
How to Play Mixed Audio Sources to AirPods on macOS
It might sound odd, but there are times you simply wish to stream audios only — not the whole video stream — to an AirPod connected to another Mac. It happens most often for me when I’m watching YouTubes or Podcasts on the side while I have my AirPods connected to the workstation. I prefer…