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.
Category Archive: Macs
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 […]
A collaborative effort between WindowManagement, Launch Services, SkyLight and other subsystems, there’s deep integration with Spaces.
Can it be true that Apple is sent information about every image we browse in the Finder? Analysis of Visual Look Up and Live Text and when it happens.
Stage Manager manages windows, and the Dock manages apps. This explains how to keep an app window in a group, and all about popbacks.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 186. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Arrivals […]
If you leave some apps without an open window, macOS appears to quit them, but instead puts them into App Nap, only to quit them when it wants to. They’re undead.
How APFS can trim free space in a read/write disk image and transform it into a sparse file, so it uses storage more efficiently.
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Arrivals and departures […]
The Eclectic Light Company 