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Category Archive: Macs

Last Week on My Mac: More haste, less upgrade

SwiftUI, notarization, malware detection, and Time Machine for APFS: all look worryingly incomplete in Catalina. Are they a bit premature?

June 23, 2019 Macs, Technology

Why Catalina has got a read-only system volume

System integrity protection, SIP, is a primary defence for your Mac. Yet it has had several known vulnerabilities. That’s why it’s changing in Catalina.

June 22, 2019 Macs, Technology

Getting the best out my apps’ auto-update system

Helpful info and advice for all those using recent versions of my more popular free apps and utilities, about security and auto-updates.

June 21, 2019 Macs, Technology

Notarization made a bit simpler

You don’t have to add an Info.plist to a standalone Mach-O tool in order to sign it, or to get it notarized successfully. And more tips.

June 21, 2019 Macs, Technology

Apple updates AirPort Base Station 802.11n firmware to 7.8.1

Apple has just released an update to bring AirPort Express and Extreme, and Time Capsule Base Stations, with […]

June 20, 2019 Macs, Technology

MacBook Pro Retina 15-inch Mid 2015 battery recall

Apple has announced a battery recall programme for some MacBook Pro 15-inch models which were sold mainly between […]

June 20, 2019 Macs, Technology

28 years after Unicode, we still can’t handle accents: PDF + macOS + URL = chaos

Open a PDF document, select a URL within it and Copy. Then paste it into a webpage for publication. Simple – but the URL then broke. Why?

June 20, 2019 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Cirrus 1.5 can change text size and supports auto-update

Now lets you change the font size in its text views, with settings independent for each window type, and saved to its preferences files.

June 19, 2019 Macs, Technology

What is SIP and when is it safe to turn it off?

System Integrity Protection can get in your way, and may be recommended to solve compatibility problems. It’s also changing again in Catalina.

June 19, 2019 Macs, Technology

32-bitCheck 1.8 changes text size, auto-updates, and more

You can now change its font size between 4 and 24 points, and this update checks automatically for updates too.

June 18, 2019 Macs, Technology

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