While you may feel more comfortable working with the more limited privileges of a normal rather than admin user, does that improve security?
Category Archive: Macs
The update to macOS Ventura 13.2 isn’t large, but brings two significant new features: Advanced Data Protection for […]
Apple has just released updates to bring macOS 13 Ventura to version 13.2 (build 22D49), and security updates […]
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 187. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Leaves […]
How macOS schedules tasks like making automatic Time Machine backups, from property list to transactions between DAS and CTS.
The M2 Pro and Max gain an extra two Efficiency cores, compared to their M1 equivalents. What effect will that have on their performance, and what of the M2 Ultra?
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Leaves from the […]
The story of how Mac OS X went from cron, to launchd, and ended up with Duet Activity Scheduler, to schedule background activities like backups.
I’m browsing images in the Finder, when my software firewall tells me macOS is trying to phone home to one of Apple’s servers. We all know what that means, don’t we?
Apple has just released an update to XProtect Remediator security software for Macs running Catalina or later, bringing […]
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