In the latest releases of both my ebooks on backups (“Take Control of Mac OS X Backups” and “Take Control of Easy Backups in Leopard“), I include sidebars titled “(Sparse) Bundles of Joy,” in which I ...

One useful OS X feature is the ability to create disk images. A disk image is a single file that, when double-clicked, appears like a typical hard drive to the operating system. (Most software you ...

Compared with traditional matched filtering (MF) based methods, sparse synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging could obtain high-quality images of sparse surveillance regions from down-sampled echo ...

A practical detail in the upcoming new Mac operating system macOS 26 aka Tahoe: Apple has tweaked its encrypted disk images. As IT blogger and Mac & i author Howard Oakley has noticed, the Mac ...

At The Eclectic Light Company blog, Howard Oakley writes: Over a year ago, Apple changed the way that one of the most popular formats of disk image works on APFS. This article re-evaluates the more ...

Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...