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Category Archive: Macs

Last Week on My Mac: Where’s the fire escape?

My friend took it to extremes, travelling everywhere with a 30-foot rope in his suitcase. But he was right: would you be able to get to the fire escape? How that applies to problems with the structure of the internal SSD of an Apple silicon Mac.

May 3, 2026 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 358

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

May 2, 2026 General, Macs, Technology

How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be?

Latest Geekbench performance figures for macOS VMs, and testing of how few cores and how little memory is really needed: could you run a macOS VM usefully on a MacBook Neo?

May 2, 2026 Macs, Technology

Use Finder tags for categories

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A simple and accessible way of categorising folders, they’re stored as extended attributes, and robust. They work best with up to 7 categories, but can confuse with many different text labels.

May 1, 2026 Macs, Technology

Control what gets written to the log

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Two common problems with log: all the censored contents, which can make them meaningless, and the sheer number of entries. How to use logging preferences to tackle them.

April 30, 2026 Macs, Technology

Virtualisation on Apple silicon Macs is different

Virtualising macOS, Linux and Windows on Intel Macs has been relatively straightforward, and device support left to the developer. That won’t work for Apple silicon Macs. This explains what happens, its strengths and limitations as a result.

April 29, 2026 Macs, Technology

Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS

Apple has released an update to XProtect for all versions of macOS, bringing it to version 5341; the […]

April 28, 2026 Macs, Technology, Updates

Finder comments, steganography and malware

Although easy to add to documents, Finder comments work strangely, and can prove fragile. They can also be used to conceal malicious code by steganography, but there are better options.

April 28, 2026 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 357

I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 357. Here are my solutions to them. 1: John’s afterword […]

April 27, 2026 General, Macs, Technology

The Minimise Easter Egg lives on

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Everything you need to know about how to have fun with this Easter Egg, which is even better in more recent versions of macOS.

April 27, 2026 Macs, Technology

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