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Read the full details here before doing anything:  http://support.apple.com/kb/PH18637?viewlocale=en_US Enabling disk encryption on OSX Yosemite turns out to be a straightforward process. Simply enable it through Setting/Security & Privacy/FileVault - if you chose not to let your iCloud account unlock your disk (for when you've forgotten your password) you'll have to keep a safe record of the recovery key (it sounds like you only get one oppourtunity to record this) - this triggers a reboot, and then when you log back in you'll be able to monitor the progress of file encryption from the same settings panel. I have 2 MacBooks: July 2014 Apple MacBook Pro , 2.6GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.8GHz, 16GB 1600MHz DDR3L SDRAM, 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage January 2011 Apple MacBook Air , 13 inch display, Core 2 Duo 1.86GHz, 4 Gig RAM 1067 MHz DDR3, 256 Gig SSD Since disk speed is king, I wanted to measure the effect of enabling FileVault so I f

Sometimes you'll find you need to customise which files get included from a bower dependency. For example, when using the moment.js library, you'll see (in bower_components/moment/bower.json) that by default 'moment.js' is the only file included: In my case, I'm using brunch to build the project and I'd prefer to include moment.min.js - plus I want to selectively pick which moment local files to include. This turns out to be quite easy - brunch understands bower overrides, so in your projects bower.json all you have to do is include an override which tells it which files to use from your dependencies:

If you've forgotten the PIN for your android device, you can reset it at  https://www.google.com/android/devicemanager . This page lets you choose from your registered devices (if you have more than one). From here you can see when it was last used, and where. You have the option of 'Ring', 'Erase', and 'Lock'. Choosing 'Lock' lets you provide a new pin - so next time you access it the new pin should be active.