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Category Archive: Macs

SilentKnight version 1.11 now supports individual updates

New feature: an updater window which allows you to download and install individual named updates, rather than having to install all that are available.

October 21, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

There’s more to files than data: Structure and data forks

Looking in more detail at newer tricks used by APFS on the data of files: sparse files, which can squeeze vast empty files almost to nothing; file clones; and compression, opening up in Big Sur.

October 20, 2020 Macs, Technology

Precize version 1.11 can now help identify sparse files

Now shows the space taken on disk, which makes it easy to identify sparse files.

October 20, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Apple has pushed updates to XProtect and MRT

Apple has pushed two updates today, to the data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number to […]

October 19, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 69

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 69. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Elsewhere […]

October 19, 2020 General, Macs, Technology

Background activity scheduling with CTS in Catalina

CTS now schedules many important services, including syncing Calendar, Contacts, Messages, running weekly firmware checks with eficheck, and more.

October 19, 2020 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Miss Havisham Syndrome

Trying to get hardware info within an app – simple data like CPU details, logic board ID, type of internal storage – is fraught and undocumented, the victim of prolonged self-neglect.

October 18, 2020 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 69

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

October 17, 2020 General, Macs, Technology

What happens when background scheduling fails

CTS scheduling and dispatch of background tasks has no user interface, and no controls. How can you tell that there’s a problem, and what to do about it?

October 17, 2020 Macs, Technology

How does your Mac know when Apple revokes a developer certificate?

Where does macOS store a list of revoked certificates, and how does it keep them up to date? The answer isn’t perhaps what you expect.

October 16, 2020 Macs, Technology

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