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Category Archive: Macs

Last Week on My Mac: Looking for the killer app

The M1’s honeymoon is over. Speed is great, but users are asking what else the M1 offers. Catalyst and the M1 iPad Pro could prove crucial to the answers.

April 25, 2021 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 96

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through whatever you’re now allowed to do. 1: Fourth in […]

April 24, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: numbers in macOS

All you need to understand about numbers on your Mac, both integers and floating point. Common errors and problems, from endianness to NaNs.

April 24, 2021 Macs, Technology

Cirrus 1.12 and Taccy 1.14 fix time issues and improve log performance

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Updates recommended for all users. They finally address problems with using 12-hour and other clocks. Log handling code has been refactored to improve performance.

April 23, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Consolation 3.13 fixes time issues and improves command output

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This update is recommended for all users. It finally addresses problems with using 12-hour and other clocks. It also reveals a more useful version of the log command used to get a log extract.

April 23, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Can you trust floating-point arithmetic on Apple Silicon?

M1 Macs may be as fast as greased lightning, but how good is their numerical accuracy? Can it match that of Intel processors?

April 22, 2021 Macs, Technology

How macOS manages iOS apps: RunningBoard comes of age

iOS and iPadOS apps run on M1 Macs in an environment managed by RunningBoard, FrontBoard, FuseBoard, and several assistants.

April 21, 2021 Macs, Technology

How some log entries vanish sooner than others

Sometimes, when you return to examine entries in the log a few hours after they were written, many of them have vanished. How come?

April 20, 2021 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 95

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 95. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Watch […]

April 19, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

iOS apps are translocated when run in macOS

App translocation was introduced to stop malicious software exploiting relative file paths. So how come every time an iOS/iPadOS app is run, it’s translocated?

April 19, 2021 Macs, Technology

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