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Category Archive: Macs

Last Week on My Mac: Ever alert

The aspect ratio of my iPhone’s display is under half, and it’s pressed to display more than 5 words in each line of text. Yet Macs now use similar vertical alerts as those in iOS.

May 25, 2025 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 309

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Glazed opening […]

May 24, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

A brief history of alerts

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Originally alert boxes, these have brought us information, warnings and errors in different formats. Although they should be rare, macOS has used them increasingly, sometimes uninformatively.

May 24, 2025 Macs, Technology

What to expect of XProtects?

Classic XProtect, XProtect Remediator, and XProtect behavioural with Bastion rules – a rundown on developments over the last year and where they’re going next.

May 23, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Is high resolution time available in the log?

It turns out that ‘nanosecond’ times introduced in LogUI are largely artefact. Is higher resolution timing really needed, and how can it be obtained?

May 22, 2025 Macs, Technology

System time, clocks and their syncing in macOS

How to ensure your Mac’s clock and time is as accurate as possible, what can cause problems, and how it works using the timed daemon, as revealed in the log.

May 21, 2025 Macs, Technology

Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS

Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all supported versions of macOS, bringing it to version […]

May 20, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

A Dance to the Music of Time in Intel and Apple silicon logs

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Although Macs can resolve time to nanoseconds, this isn’t apparent from tests writing log entries very rapidly. This explains what is probably happening.

May 20, 2025 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 308

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 308. Here are my solutions to them. 1: One […]

May 19, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Resolve time better in LogUI build 48

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Although there are important differences between Intel and Apple silicon Macs, both can resolve time to nanoseconds. So can this new version of LogUI.

May 19, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

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