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Category Archive: Macs

What can I do with my apps?

Customising apps is a joy of the past. Bundled apps can’t even have custom icons. Third-party apps can have custom icons, but anything further will break their signature.

November 4, 2025 Macs, Technology

Apple has released macOS 26.1 Tahoe, and security updates to 15.7.2 and 14.8.2

Apple has just released macOS 26.1 Tahoe, together with security updates for Sequoia to bring it to 15.7.2, […]

November 3, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 332

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 332. Here are my solutions to them. 1: I […]

November 3, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Why old installers may not work

Certificates in an installer must be valid when the installer is run. Six years ago, all Apple’s ran out, and it had provide new versions. How to cope with that.

November 3, 2025 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: What do those CPU frequencies mean?

Given what we know about the base M5, is it really a significant improvement on the base M4. What features should we be looking at?

November 2, 2025 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 332

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

November 1, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: Preferences

Hundreds of app preferences are hidden away in ~/Library/Preferences and elsewhere. What do they contain, how do they work, and how can they crash an app before it’s even running fully?

November 1, 2025 Macs, Technology

When time is out of joint, the log falls over

When the clocks went back, looking in the log for entries at 01:49:02 brought a very great surprise: in one Mac, nearly 4 million entries in a single second.

October 31, 2025 Macs, Technology

Updated CPU core frequencies for all current Apple silicon Macs

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How operating frequencies of CPU cores used by the latest base M5 chip compare with those from previous families in the M series, and what that means. Complete with updated tables for all current chips.

October 30, 2025 Macs, Technology

Disentangling timestamps with Dropera 2

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Study how the four key timestamps of a file change when you create, edit, preview the file, using Dropera.

October 29, 2025 Macs, Technology

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