The easiest and most effective way to make a complete backup of your machine the way it is, is to make a disk image. What is a disk image? A disk image is a complete 100% identical copy of your system the way it is. All your files, programs, music, pictures, everything. This means if your hard drive is currently 280 gig’s in use, your disk image will come out to be 280 gigs~. Disk images are also really easy to restore, and luckily do...

Apple doesn’t exactly make it obvious that you can hold down keys to access or activate special functions during startup. Throughout the years people have used these to fix various issues with their Mac’s ranging from stuck discs to a computer that doesn’t boot. Some of these commands have changed throughout the years, while others have remained the same. Do keep in mind though, the following list is for Intel Mac’s...