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Category Archive: Macs

ICYMI: a selection of the best Mac articles of 2025 – 2

Catch up on your reading with selected articles from the past year, covering security, logs, macOS generally, Spotlight in particular, and some utilities.

January 1, 2026 Macs, Technology

ICYMI: a selection of the best Mac articles of 2025 – 1

Catch up on your reading with selected articles from the past year, covering hardware, firmware and Recovery, troubleshooting and updates.

December 31, 2025 Macs, Technology

Data formats used in textClipping, webloc and mailloc files 1994-2025

A summary of the resource types used in these files, and their modern data equivalents, from ‘classic’ Mac text to Unicode, RTF and even WebArchive.

December 30, 2025 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 340

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 340. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Controversial […]

December 29, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Is your XProtect stuck on 5324?

Is your Mac running Sequoia or Tahoe? Is its XProtect up to date and using version 5325? If not, you might have to wait until the return from holidays before that’s fixed.

December 29, 2025 Macs, Technology

Last Year on My Mac: Look back in disbelief

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If someone had told me 12 months ago what was going to happen this past year, I wouldn’t […]

December 28, 2025 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 340

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Controversial molten […]

December 27, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Use and access clipping files: textClippings, weblocs, and maillocs

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Introduced in about 1999, they come in 3 flavours: weblocs, maillocs and textClippings. How they have changed, how you can still use them, and how to fix them.

December 27, 2025 Macs, Technology

Use Providable to check file histories

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Verify that the app doesn’t change file extended attributes, discover why false flags result from updating apps in place, check who has been changing your preferences, and how to add App Store apps to Provenance tracking.

December 26, 2025 Macs, Technology

Inspect provenance and quarantine info in Providable, a Christmas present

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A new app to check files for Providence IDs and Quarantine information, so providing info about the origin and recent edit history of those files.

December 25, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

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