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War in Ukraine: Marshall Mud is winning again

To the north of Kyiv is a 40-mile long column of Russian vehicles, trapped by bad tyres, breakdowns, fuel shortage, and mud. But what of the occupants? Are they fit to fight?

March 6, 2022 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 141

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

March 5, 2022 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: TLS, VPN and Private Relay

Unscramble what HTTPS, SSL, TLS, VPNs and Apple’s Private Relay do, and how they could be used to protect you.

March 5, 2022 Macs, Technology

How Monterey checks apps and executable code

There have been changes to the way that macOS 12 checks executable code when asked to run it. Summarised in a diagram.

March 4, 2022 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed an update to XProtect

Apple has just pushed an update to the data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number to […]

March 3, 2022 Macs, Technology, Updates

Securing your data in iCloud

Exactly how does iCloud protect data in Contacts, files stored in iCloud Drive, those saved by 3rd party apps, and your email?

March 3, 2022 Macs, Technology

How Apple should help Ukraine by fulfilling its promises

In November 2020, macOS was found to have a hole in protecting users’ privacy, which Apple promised to fix within a year. Although it has made changes, are they protective enough?

March 2, 2022 General, Macs, Technology

Making sense of M1 memory use

How can you tell how much memory is being used by the GPU when both CPU and GPU use Unified Memory? Does it matter anyway?

March 1, 2022 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 140

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 140. Here are my solutions to them. 1: This […]

February 28, 2022 General, Macs, Technology

Does removing I/O throttling make backups faster?

Can you get Time Machine to back up faster by turning I/O throttling off? If so, it this something to do only for large backups, or can it be set as the default? Does it also affect other background processes?

February 28, 2022 Macs, Technology

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