How does your Mac know what permissions to set on newly created folders and files? It uses a umask. This explains what that is, how to work it out, and how to change it.
Category Archive: Macs
Notes on how search depends on index structure, effects of language on different types of search term, and the benefits and limitations of search methods.
Apple has just released its weekly update to XProtect for all supported versions of macOS, bringing it to […]
Without you saving any changes made to a document, Preview saves versions in the macOS versioning system that could prove a great help. Here’s how to use it.
Using powermetrics and log entries, a single image was processed on an M4 Pro, with content analysis and object recognition and look-up. How much power and energy did that use?
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 323. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Well-guarded […]
When the numbers simply don’t add up. How some extended attributes may be included in quoted file sizes, but others are ignored, and Sequoia hasn’t really changed this since Classic Mac OS of 25 years ago.
Appearance modes and the effects of Accessibility settings exhibit different behaviours in Tahoe, compared with Sequoia. Illustrated in a simple app.
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Well-guarded like […]
Originally the ‘security enclave’, and subject of a series of patents, it was introduced in the iPhone 5s in 2013, then the T2 in 2017, and blossomed in M-series Macs from 2020.
The Eclectic Light Company 