Adobe’s Carousel reader came in 1993, and in Mac OS X PDF was built into its Quartz graphics. That enabled Preview to become the claimed ‘fastest PDF viewer on the planet’.
Category Archive: Macs
How frequent and large were macOS Sequoia’s updates? How has it grown in total system bundles and apps? Which categories have grown most?
How to discover which apps were launched, which appexes were run, and life cycle events for executable bundles, and map waypoints and events in the log.
Gives the latest firmware versions for all Macs running the most recent supported version of macOS, and which are expected to change in the future.
Apple has just released updates to XProtect for all supported versions of macOS, bringing it to version 5309, […]
How can you access files on a NAS connected directly to an Apple silicon Mac, or those saved to external storage using Ext4 or similar?
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 319. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Successor […]
Looks at how Spotlight adds a batch of new files to its volume indexes, and how it handles and answers queries.
A meta-search for Apple’s patents on search, and turning the incessant log chatter of RunningBoard to our advantage in following uninstrumented apps.
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Successor to […]
The Eclectic Light Company 