Guide

How to move your Mac user folder to a separate drive from the boot drive

Joaquim Barbosa ∙ Updated March 14, 2022

If you only have a small SSD in your Mac or Hackintosh, then storage space can be at a premium. For most users, by far the largest thing saved on their boot drive is the User folder, which contains their user account. If your user folder is filling up your SSD and you want to keep that high-speed storage for the operating system and applications, then this guide is for you.

It is possible to move your entire user account onto another drive, completely separate from your macOS boot drive. This will free up space on the boot drive and allow large media folders like Music, Movies, and Downloads to reside on a larger capacity drive.

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How to get the new iOS 10.2 emoji on your jailbroken iOS 9 device

Joaquim Barbosa ∙ Updated May 9, 2019

With the release of iOS 10.2, Apple introduced a whole bunch of new emoji. The Unicode 9.0 collection features 72 new emoji, including such crowd-pleasers as "Nauseated face" and "Fox face".

Emoji are an extremely popular part of messaging on iOS and some people even update their devices just to get the new releases. However, you needn't choose between your jailbreak and your smileys; in this article we'll go through how to get the new iOS 10.2 emoji on your jailbroken iOS 9 device.

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How to turn on and use Touch Bar zoom

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated January 16, 2018

Visually impaired users who own Apple's MacBook Pro with Touch Bar may be pleased to learn that macOS provides a set of specialized Accessibility features that help people who are blind or have low vision enjoy the compelling features of Touch Bar. If you have difficulty seeing items in your Touch Bar, turning this feature on renders a larger Touch Bar on the main display. Other users should check out Touch Bar zoom, too.

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to turn Touch Bar zoom on, increase or decrease the zoom level, select or split-tap an item on Touch Bar and use other specialized gestures.

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How to view and delete your Google search history

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated January 11, 2023
Delete your Google activity

Whenever you make a Google search while being logged in to any service from the company, your search is saved to your Google account’s activity. This is designed to help improve your search experience by increasing the amount of relevant results you'll see.

In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to view and delete your Google search query history, a step you can take to increase your privacy by preventing others from seeing what you’ve searched for.

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How to save jailbreak tweaks on your device with redeb

Joaquim Barbosa ∙ January 16, 2017

Sometimes a developer's repo goes down, they withdraw a tweak, or they update the tweak on their repo and don't leave your favoured previous version up. In these cases, you may want to save the tweak to your device so as to have it for later use.

The trouble is that Cydia removes the install files, saved in .deb format, after it has finished installing the tweak to your device. So unless you save the .deb file after you download it from Cydia, but before it installs (which is unlikely as it's cumbersome and easy to forget to do), you would seem to be out of luck. But are you? In this guide, we'll show you how to repackage already installed tweaks into .deb files for safekeeping, using redeb.

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