Tuning Serious Sam 3 to run with 60 FPS on an iMac 5k under macOS
Nothing more pleasing, than running Serious Sam 3 on 60 frames per second & still having a beautiful visual look while travelling the virtual worlds.
iMac buying guide – early to mid 2018
This guide – adapted from my own evaluation and decision making process – should cover the most important facts, figures & thoughts you may go through when looking into buying a new Apple iMac (or any other Apple Mac models).
macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 update breaks DisplayLink driver 4.1 – displays will go blank
Attention: the recent macOS High Sierra update to version 10.13.4 will break the DisplaLink driver version 4.1 and cause any connected displays to go blank after the OS upgrade!
Overcome macOS High Sierra’s Gray Screen of Death after OS update
Is your Mac stuck in the infamous gray screen of death, after upgrading the OS? Here’s a solution to reboot properly again.
Solution approach: fixing APFS disk issue “fsroot tree invalid” in macOS High Sierra Public Beta 4 (17A315i)
Completely erasing & reformatting a broken APFS volume under macOS High Sierra Beta 4 fixed the “fsroot tree error” – make sure you have an up to date backup before upgrading High Sierra Beta updates.
Issue: macOS High Sierra Beta 4 (17A315i) breaks APFS formatted drive
Just a quick note, as this seems not to be mentioned anywhere so far:
Apple recently released Public Beta 4 of macOS High Sierra (Build 17A315i) – which broke my APFS formatted external SSD drive; kind of.
New Lock Screen feature in macOS High Sierra
Known from Windows to quickly lock the screen; Apple finally introduces the same quick lock feature for Mac with it’s new OS macOS High Sierra.
Solved: macOS High Sierra beta issues with APSF for a bootable external drive
macOS High Sierra beta is booting successfully from an external APFS formatted SSD disk. Read the full story here.
Do you cover your Mac’s Camera with Tape against Privacy Infringements? It’s not enough!
Tape on the camera may prevent somebody spying on you visually – but this does not prevent anybody hacking your computer and accessing it’s built-in microphone to listen to your conversations! And tape on the microphone spot is by far not making it completely “mute”. So tape is just not enough – you do need a software-based solution for full control: and there is one to do just that – OverSight.
Hide that bothering mouse cursor in macOS when fullscreen playing a video
When you also like a distortion-free screen, you may also dislike that the macOS cursor sometimes showing up in fullscreen video playback. Here’s a solution how to quickly hide a bothering mouse cursor.