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Category Archive: Macs

Last Week on My Mac: The tragic case of audiobooks

A hitchhiker’s guide to the mess that is the audiobook section in Apple’s Books app. Time to launch a Vogon Constructor Fleet?

May 17, 2020 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 47

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through whatever you’re still allowed to do. 1: Friend or […]

May 16, 2020 General, Macs, Technology

Snug sparse bundles work better, but…

Is it better to make sparse bundles ‘snug’, sizing them so that they don’t have as much free space? What if you then need to resize them?

May 16, 2020 Macs, Technology

Sparse bundles leak space

They readily grow in size up to their maximum. But getting them to shrink when contents are reduced isn’t as easy.

May 15, 2020 Macs, Technology

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 […]

May 14, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Covid-19 testing and diagnosis: where privacy stops

What’s the difference between a suspect and confirmed case, and which should be used for contact tracing? What about the implications of testing?

May 14, 2020 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Audiobooks in the Books app

Can you add your own audiobooks to the Books app? It seems a simple question, but the answer is elusive and guarded.

May 13, 2020 Macs, Technology

Smartphone contact tracing without Apple or Google

Can a smartphone contact tracing app work without using the support in Apple and Google’s forthcoming frameworks? Are there advantages?

May 12, 2020 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Cut-Copy-Paste: Inside the Pasteboard/Clipboard

How these fundamental features work in macOS, using the pboard daemon and UTIs. With full log transcripts too.

May 12, 2020 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 46

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 46. Here are my solutions to them. 1: backup […]

May 11, 2020 General, Macs, Technology

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