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Category Archive: Macs

Find My Mac and Activation Lock

Find My Mac provides valuable tools to help you locate and secure a misplaced, lost or stolen Mac. So what does Activation Lock add?

December 27, 2019 Macs, Technology

Publishers determined to kill electronic books

A recent judgement makes it a breach of copyright to sell pre-owned eBooks. Do publishers really want to deter everyone from buying eBooks?

December 26, 2019 General, Language, Life, Macs, Technology

Ultimately obfuscated coding

There may even be a few good reasons for you wanting to obfuscate your code. Perhaps you don’t […]

December 25, 2019 General, Language, Life, Macs, Technology

Network security can block updates, notifications, and more

Making your network more secure using software firewalls and SSL inspection can block macOS from functioning properly.

December 24, 2019 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 26

Did you manage to get all three this week?

December 23, 2019 General, Macs, Technology

Preparing your Mac for disposal (Catalina edition)

Got a new Mac? Unless you’re going to keep the old one, you’ll be passing it on, selling it, or recycling. Here’s how to prepare the old Mac to go away.

December 23, 2019 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Flaws in re-installing Catalina

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Follow Apple’s instructions for a clean re-install, and you’ll probably hit an error, and be left floundering in Recovery mode with an unbootable system.

December 22, 2019 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 26

Proposed solutions will be published here on Monday morning. You could get all three this week, perhaps.

December 21, 2019 General, Macs, Technology

What to do when a macOS update goes wrong (Catalina edition)

Safe mode, installing the Combo updater, re-installing macOS, and other potential solutions to get that update working properly.

December 21, 2019 Macs, Technology

Opening documents, SIP and quarantine flags in Catalina

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How does Catalina’s new privacy protection extend to folders such as ~/Documents? New information fills in detail.

December 20, 2019 Macs, Technology

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