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Category Archive: Macs

Last Week on My Mac: AppKit, TextKit, Core Data – signs of disease

More bugs in Calculator and Activity Monitor when printing, dreadful lack of documentation of AppKit, TextKit, and CoreData. No wonder Apple is struggling to sell iPhones in China.

January 6, 2019 Macs, Technology

Aliases, hard links, symlinks, and copies in Mojave’s APFS

Mojave has 5 different types of copy/clone/alias/link, some of which can appear to behave oddly. Here they are, fully explained.

January 5, 2019 Macs, Technology

Setting up a new (or repurposed) Mac: 7 Choices diagrammed

A table showing the main choices when using System Migration, and more detail on how the process works.

January 4, 2019 Macs, Technology

Why does macOS keep downloading the incompatible app list?

The mystery of the recurrent silent installation is solved, plus a fascinating list of macOS system sizes from 10.6.8 to 10.14. Do they keep growing?

January 3, 2019 Macs, Technology

How Mojave messes up printing

It could and should have been so easy, but just try printing when in Dark Mode. Many apps make a pig’s ear of it – and it’s not their fault.

January 2, 2019 Macs, Technology

A lexicon of Mac power adaptors, from MagSafe to USB-C

Which adaptor to use with which laptop Mac. And a detailed directory of macOS features and services around the world.

January 1, 2019 Macs, Technology

Comments on all articles permitted again

I have now enabled commenting on all articles again, in the hope that those posting comment spam have […]

December 31, 2018 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Last year’s hardware, next year’s promises

Wondering what happened to the iMac 2018 and the replacement for the 5 year-old Mac Pro? We should see them in 2019, inevitably with T2 chips.

December 31, 2018 Macs, Technology

Last Year on My Mac: Out with the old, in with the new

Eighteen new apps for free download – it hasn’t been a bad year. But Apple needs to fix its App Store, as well as delivering new iMacs and the Mac Pro in 2019. And did I mention security?

December 30, 2018 Macs, Technology

Comments disabled for older articles, a temporary measure

At present, this blog is being subjected to a very high volume of spam comments, advertising all sorts […]

December 29, 2018 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

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