Among the most useful are Archive Utility, now including Apple Archive compression, and Storage Management. But Network Utility is now non-functional.
Category Archive: Macs
in Mac OS 8 and 9, you could patch the system direct. OS X was harder, and became sprawling and interdependent, encouraging users to reinstall macOS. That has now ended with the introduction of the SSV.
Here’s a special Christmas edition of riddles to entertain you through what I hope is a long weekend […]
The first version of its predecessor, NetInfo, also handled DNS lookups. When they failed, users found they were locked out of everything else. This has improved!
Accessing information about you as a user and a great deal more, using the Advanced Options dialog for user accounts, and Directory Utility.
If you want to check out your Mac’s Wi-Fi connection, Wireless Diagnostics is ideal. It’ll show you signal dropouts and give its opinion.
How can the two E cores in an M1 Pro/Max apparently match the performance of the four in the original M1? Answers, please.
Backing up using Time Machine over Gigabit Ethernet to another Mac providing shared backup storage in Monterey 12.1 delivered good performance of 35-43 MB/s.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 130. Here are my solutions to them. 1: They […]
You might want an old macOS or OS X installer to build a Virtual Machine, or for an old Mac. Here’s how to get them, and old versions of Xcode.
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