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Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 139

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 139. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Reverse to support a complete copy in case.

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backup

Reverse (backup) to support (back up) a complete copy in case (what a backup is).

2: Lunch box worked with the data in your address book until its death eight years ago.

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Bento

Lunch box (Japanese bento) worked with the data in your address book (Bento did) until its death eight years ago (FileMaker discontinued it on 30 September 2013).

3: The bosun’s mate who stabilises pH in temporary storage.

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buffer

The bosun’s mate (known as the buffer) who stabilises pH (what buffers do in chemistry) in temporary storage (what a buffer does in computing).

The common factor

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They all start with the letter B.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.