Automatic Time Machine backups aren’t scheduled to run at precise times, but when it’s convenient. This explains how, and what to do if goes wrong.
Category Archive: Macs
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 231. Here are my solutions to them. 1: From […]
Using assembly language test loops to understand the differences between M1 Pro and M3 Pro CPU cores casts new light on their differences.
How to get an app to leak memory, what a leak does, how to mitigate against a leak, and how an engineer should fix it.
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: From a nutshell […]
From blessing Classic Mac OS, through SUM and the first Recovery partition in Mac OS X Lion, right up to 1 True Recovery on Apple silicon Macs.
Occasionally, switching apps in Sonoma’s Stage Manager sets the whole menu bar to red, and loses menus on its left. What’s the cause?
These fix a bug when restoring a VM window that has been minimised to the Dock.
With one leak in the Finder’s Gallery view, it’s time for another, in Icon view. This is an old leak, that has affected older versions of macOS too, but still hasn’t been fixed.
Little seems to have changed in CPU cores in M3 chips, if you read reviews. Dig a bit deeper and there are major changes, as explained here.
The Eclectic Light Company 