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Category Archive: Macs

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 201

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 201. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Show […]

May 1, 2023 General, Macs, Technology

SilentKnight 2.5 and XProCheck 1.5 are better focussed

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These now analyse log reports from XProtect Remediator more robustly, and are more discerning in ranking them, so clearer to use.

May 1, 2023 Macs, Technology, Updates

Last Week on My Mac: Secret security

An update users didn’t know about might have installed a security tool they don’t know about, whose reports they can’t see.

April 30, 2023 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 201

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Show in the […]

April 29, 2023 General, Macs, Technology

Connecting to the Internet via a phone 21 years ago

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Follow along as we connect to the Internet 21 years ago in Mac OS X 10.2, using a Bluetooth dongle and a mobile phone, at 28.8 Kbps.

April 29, 2023 General, Macs, Technology

APFS hard links, symlinks, aliases and clone files: a summary

Similarities and differences, how to make each in the Finder and Terminal, how much space they use, and how they work in APFS.

April 28, 2023 Macs, Technology

Apple has just released an update to XProtect Remediator

Apple has just released an update to XProtect Remediator security software for Macs running Catalina or later, bringing […]

April 27, 2023 Macs, Technology, Updates

Where does macOS get its volume free space figures from?

After studying thousand of log entries in less than 2 seconds, this is how macOS updates its values for purgeable and available space. But who uses them?

April 27, 2023 Macs, Technology

Freeing space on your boot disk

Free that space before macOS has to purge it for you. Using housekeeping, moving Documents and media libraries, but not relocating Home folders.

April 26, 2023 Macs, Technology

Ventura 13.3.1 can’t change the password of sparse bundles

hdiutil chpass, the only means of changing passwords for sparse bundles, doesn’t work in macOS Ventura 13.3.1. The workaround requires a VM and 13.1.

April 25, 2023 Macs, Technology

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