I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 90. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Move […]
Category Archive: Macs
Numbers has a lightweight interface and is easy to use. But does it handle numbers as accurately as Excel, or maths environments like Matlab?
The DTKs have been returned, ending the first phase of the transition to Apple Silicon. What comes next, and what are the top three problems which Apple needs to address?
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through whatever you’re now allowed to do. 1: Move through […]
Time to speak Klingon to your Mac. Or, rather, don’t try this at home or you could end up with mixed languages, and Help pages in something else.
Total updates required by 10.14 were 21.5 GB in 10 updates; for 10.15, those rose to 32.2 GB in 12 updates. For M1 Macs, Big Sur has already required 22.3 GB in 6 updates, and it hasn’t got to version 11.3 yet.
How each of the three different backup schemes used by Time Machine has worked, and how snapshots can work as backups.
An important feature for many iOS users, this has now appeared in macOS, despite not apparently being exposed to the user. Here’s what I know.
How can you check the integrity of important files you have stored in iCloud, or in a Time Machine backup, such as those made by Big Sur to APFS?
How the start of Time Machine backups to APFS volumes is scheduled and dispatched, and a fascinating Secure Backup Daemon.
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