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Category Archive: Macs

Check your EFI firmware automatically with EFIcienC

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How can you check whether your firmware is fully up to date when Apple doesn’t help? A new app to make this much simpler, and automatic.

July 4, 2019 Macs, Technology

Should you beta-test Catalina?

It’s so tempting, isn’t it? There’s more to beta-testing than sending reports of problems to Apple. Here are some vital considerations.

July 4, 2019 Macs, Technology

Should you pay the high price of a high-speed external SSD?

With a shiny new high-speed Samsung X5 SSD to test, I was looking forward to some real speed. Did it deliver good value for its high price, though?

July 3, 2019 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed an update to Gatekeeper’s data

Apple has pushed an update to the data used by Gatekeeper, bringing its version number to 171, dated […]

July 3, 2019 Macs, Technology

Checking whether apps are notarized using Signet

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Now can check apps (bundles with the extension .app) to determine whether they’re notarized, from Apple, App Store, etc.

July 2, 2019 Macs, Technology

PDF without Adobe 25: If at first you don’t succeed, try OCRing again

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This PDF contained 161 scanned pages from a book, but not one word could be accessed as text, despite using OCR on them. What can you do?

July 2, 2019 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 1

Here are the answers – and are always open to alternatives.

July 1, 2019 Macs, Technology

Does replacing internal storage cause EFI updating problems?

When you replace the internal disk fitted by Apple, some Macs seem to stop installing EFI firmware updates. Is there anything to be done?

July 1, 2019 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Last of the Mojave

In the next week or two, 10.14.6 should be released, the last version of Mojave, and the last macOS to run on cheesegrater Mac Pros. Where has it got us?

June 30, 2019 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 1

Three riddles to solve this weekend. They’re more fun than a couple of thousand turgid words about the innards of macOS.

June 29, 2019 Macs, Technology

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