Cloning a hard drive on a Mac is a different process. If you have a newer MacBook or iMac, you can't swap out the hard disk on it. The Apple Silicon-based Macs have the storage soldered in, so there's ...

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CCleaner promises less data waste, more storage space, better performance and fewer PC problems. We show you how to get the most out of this powerful tool.

In 2002, Raskin, along with his son Aza and the rest of the development team, built a software implementation of his interface ideas called The Humane Environment. As before, it was centered on a core ...

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Instead of paying a monthly fee to keep my memories in the cloud, I figured out a cheaper long-term storage solution.

If you read “Jenny’s Daily Drivers” or “Linux Fu” here on Hackaday, you know we like Linux. Jenny’s series, especially, always points out things I want to try ...

There’s no shortage of good cleanup and optimization utilities for the Mac. While AVG has historically been more prevalent on the Windows side of things, the company is making a concerted effort to ...

USB drives can be repurposed for a wide range of creative, practical, and surprising tasks, many of them simple enough for anyone to try.

If a Windows upgrade has ever gone sideways on you, you know how vague and unhelpful the error messages can be. Here are my go-to troubleshooting tricks when that happens.