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Category Archive: Macs

Saturday Mac riddles 230

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Prepares a play […]

November 18, 2023 General, Macs, Technology

Are we running out of panaceas?

We used to reset the Desktop, the SMC, and NVRAM, install the Combo updater, or perform a clean install. Now there’s only Safe mode left.

November 18, 2023 Macs, Technology

Time Machine in Sonoma: strengths and weaknesses

What is Time Machine best at doing? What are its current limitations in macOS Sonoma, when backing up to APFS? A draft list.

November 17, 2023 Macs, Technology

Game Mode revisited: why E cores are so important

Once you know how to configure an app to be able to use Game Mode, you can run better tests. Here are measurements of CPU and GPU performance for comparison between Full Screen and Game Mode.

November 16, 2023 Macs, Technology

Backup errors, iCloud Drive and the limits of APFS

Two different errors when backing up two different Macs, a recursive RTFD document, and APFS path length limits. But what’s this about FileProvider?

November 15, 2023 Macs, Technology

Time Machine in Sonoma: Back up and restore external volumes

How well can Time Machine back up other volumes, such as those on external drives? Can it restore them when the original disk fails or goes missing?

November 14, 2023 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 229

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 229. Here are my solutions to them. 1: On-camera […]

November 13, 2023 General, Macs, Technology

SilentKnight 2.7 is more tolerant of error

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If you want to install some updates but not all, this version adds two improvements to help you do that without unintentionally downloading what you don’t want.

November 13, 2023 Macs, Technology, Updates

Last Week on My Mac: Scary hasty

Sonoma 14.1.1 and Ventura 13.6.2 apparently contained ‘important bug fixes and security updates’, although Apple provides no further details. What is going on?

November 12, 2023 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 229

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: On-camera preview shows […]

November 11, 2023 General, Macs, Technology

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