Apple has released updates to bring macOS Sonoma to version 14.4.1, build 23E224, and that for Ventura 13.6.6. […]
Category Archive: Macs
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 248. Here are my solutions to them. 1: With […]
B+trees, directory records, directory and file names and Unicode normalisation, and whatever happened to the promise of fast directory sizing?
We’re almost unaware of clone files, and how they’ve changed macOS. But look at most documents that have been saved more than once, and you’ll see they’ve now be cloned.
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: With emoji […]
Has Apple fallen behind in ML and AI? Why hasn’t it got its own Large Language Model, and how can it possibly catch up now?
What happens when you press and hold the e key? Does it repeat, or do you see a window offering accented versions? Do you know you can change that?
Convert a document into a folder containing all its saved versions, and unarchive that folder back into a document with all those saved versions. All using drag-and-drop.
There’s a problem with your Mac, so you try starting it up in Recovery. But that doesn’t work. What should try next? Intel and Apple silicon Macs are then quite different.
Understanding how APFS works: inodes, attributes, file extents, extended attributes, and how they change with editing and cloning.
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