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Category Archive: Macs

Can you avoid a forced upgrade to Sonoma?

Can your Mac be protected from a forced upgrade to Sonoma by disabling the upgrade notification? What are the risks now?

February 12, 2024 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Back to USB basics

PC users will get 20 Gbit/s and SMART health indicators from this new external SSD, but Mac users will only see half that speed and no SMART without reducing security.

February 11, 2024 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 242

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

February 10, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

Why have there been so many XProtect updates?

In the first 6 weeks of this year, Apple has released 5 updates to XProtect containing 11 completely new detection rules for malware. Why?

February 10, 2024 Macs, Technology

How to deal with XProtect Remediator (XPR) problems

No scans? Malware detected and remediated? Or just an odd report that doesn’t seem to be going anywhere? How to deal with each of them.

February 9, 2024 Macs, Technology

Apple has released an update for Sonoma to version 14.3.1

Apple has just released an update to bring macOS Sonoma to version 14.3.1. This “fixes bugs”, the most […]

February 8, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

A layered approach to preserving documents

Preserve documents according to how much time or money would be needed to replace them. For work in progress, macOS versioning can be a great help.

February 8, 2024 Macs, Technology

Why is my Mac working so hard after startup? What’s CGPDFService?

When you start your Mac up, the fans blow full on, and you see CGPDFServices taking lots of CPU %. Is this malware? No, but it’s new in Sonoma.

February 7, 2024 Macs, Technology

Summary of macOS VM performance on Apple silicon Macs

Virtualisation of macOS on Apple silicon does deliver performance that’s impressively close to that of the host. Here are the figures to demonstrate it.

February 6, 2024 Macs, Technology

Apple has just released updates to XProtect and XProtect Remediator

Apple has just released updates to XProtect Remediator security software (Catalina or later), bringing it to version 125, […]

February 5, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

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