How To Make External NTFS Hard Drives Writable In Big Sur

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The new macOS Big Sur has security that prevents accessing all internal hard drives, it’s harder to install ntfs-3g to mount ntfs writable like in Catalina. Instead of using paid software to write to external hard drive, we can use fstab file to register the external hard drives for use whenever we need to. LABEL=SEAGATE1GB

Import iPhone Photos on Mac Using Preview and Image Capture Apps

Preview App macOS

When we updated our macs to Big Sur or latest Catalina with our new iOS 14.3-4, the Photos App no longer display and import Photos and Videos from our iPhone XR. I think Apple broke the Photos App or trying to force people to use iCloud Photos which we don’t use. There are 2 ways

How To Get iMessage and FaceTime Working On Big Sur

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In order to get iMessage and FaceTime to work on Big Sur, we need to have a valid account with Apple. There are a few things we need to get working before login to iCloud. 1. iMessage Debug must be free of errors. 2. en0 must be IObuitin with network hardware of the system. Use

How To Replace WIFI Module On Dell Inspiron 3668

Intel AC7265 in Big Sur macOS

The original WIFI module in Dell Inspiron 3668 was Qualcom which isn’t supported with Big Sur, so I replaced with an Intel AC7265 that came with one of my laptops. This module is supported with correct and it’s working perfectly. We don’t need the bluetooth driver since it’s supported natively.

How To Backup DVDs To MP4 macOS Big Sur

HandBrake macOS Big Sur

macOS Big Sur has quite a security upgrade that causes many problems for installing software sometimes. This is how I backup my DVDs to MP4 for playing digitally. We need , .