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Category Archive: Macs

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 328

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 328. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Click […]

October 6, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Inside the Unified Log 4: Log entries

The four types of log entry, all the fields they can contain, and those they are likely to include, shown in the order and colour scheme used in LogUI. Censorship and how to disable it, with a signed profile to do so.

October 6, 2025 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Has macOS virtualisation ground to a halt?

macOS VMs can have iCloud, iCloud Drive, Messages, FaceTime, FileVault and many shared folders, but still can’t sign into Apple service like the App Store. But you can resize their VMs.

October 5, 2025 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 328

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: 2: 3: […]

October 4, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: inodes and inode numbers

How APFS is the first Mac native file system to have true inodes and inode numbers. What they are, and how you can use them in volume groups and different types of file link.

October 4, 2025 Macs, Technology

Welcome to Tahoe’s Launch Angels

New to Tahoe is a folder containing three property lists for Launch Angels. What are they, how do the work, and where does RunningBoard come in?

October 3, 2025 Macs, Technology

Why did that macOS upgrade take so much space?

Why upgrading to Tahoe shouldn’t consume the last free space on your Mac’s SSD, and once it has settled should use little more than currently. How to clear out old snapshots and reduce System Data.

October 2, 2025 Macs, Technology

Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS

Apple has released its weekly update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5317. As usual, it doesn’t release […]

October 1, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

LogUI 1.0 build 74 adds a Diagnostics Tool for your logs

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Build 74 adds a Diagnostics Tool to analyse and catalogue diagnostics folders that are or have been a live log store, including those saved in backups.

October 1, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

Do apps launch faster in macOS Tahoe?

Some apps have become very slow to launch in recent versions of macOS. It has been suggested that this might be improved in Tahoe. Is that confirmed by evidence?

September 30, 2025 Macs, Technology

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