What if, when you double-click a document, the wrong app tries to open it, or maybe the right app but wrong version? Includes command tool use.
Category Archive: Macs
Ventura aims to improve app security by checking integrity of apps and command tools whenever they’re run. How can it do that without significant overhead?
Login and Background Items are increasingly common, and can cause all sorts of problems. Diagnosing and fixing them is better in Ventura.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 210. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Sigrid […]
What if you’ve forgotten your Mac’s password, or the secondhand Mac you bought expects you to enter one, or its owner has died?
Central to the secure design of Apple silicon is Secure Boot, the intricate mechanism that ensures everything in […]
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Sigrid through a […]
How Big Sur gained an UpdateBrain that changed macOS fundamentally, and why you can’t get standalone or Combo updaters any more.
Apple uses the term ‘deprecation’ to warn developers that a feature in the API is going away, but seldom indicates the timescale. This causes problems.
From a boot loop to almost any other glitch that occurs after a macOS update, guidance as to how best to recover and fix it.
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