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Category Archive: Macs

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 250

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 250. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Roman […]

April 8, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

APFS: Snapshots

What’s in an APFS snapshot, and how the stages in its life-cycle work, from creation, through mounting and unmounting, to deletion and cleanup.

April 8, 2024 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: SwiftUI wrangling

SwiftUI is almost five years old. Following experience porting an AppKit app for macOS to SwiftUI, it still has a long way to go. Here’s the current state of play.

April 7, 2024 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 250

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Roman CCL […]

April 6, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

What are UUIDs and why might I need them?

Where would you find a 7C3457EF-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC? How UUIDs have taken over to identify so much, and how to generate your own.

April 6, 2024 Macs, Technology

A quick look at QuickLook and its problems

Thumbnails viewed in the Finder, and previews now supporting Live Text and more. But what if it runs into problems? Here’s how to diagnose and solve them.

April 5, 2024 Macs, Technology

A short history of versions

Introduced in OS X 10.7 Lion in 2011, this feature has undergone considerable change. Although it stored versions in iCloud Drive at one time, it doesn’t now.

April 4, 2024 Macs, Technology

How FileVault passwords work, and are they now vulnerable?

Recent oddities with FileVault Recovery Keys, and a new exploit GoFetch, raise concerns over how secure FileVault protection is.

April 3, 2024 Macs, Technology

Apple has just released an update to XProtect Remediator

Apple has just released an update to XProtect Remediator security software for Catalina or later, bringing it to […]

April 2, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

APFS: Containers and volumes

From the GPT division of storage space, through APFS containers, down to individual volumes, an account of how APFS works.

April 2, 2024 Macs, Technology

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