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Category Archive: Macs

A primer on code signing errors

What does an error -67030 mean? How does one signing error lead to another? Helpful detail for interpreting results from checking signatures.

June 28, 2019 Macs, Technology

Permissions, preferences, problems, and two updates

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How the new repairing permissions can fix problems, and two updated tools to help you do that.

June 27, 2019 Macs, Technology

PDF without Adobe 24: Accessibility with PDF/UA

A great idea: tag blocks of text in a PDF and build them into reading order, so that they can be read out loud. How well does that work, then?

June 26, 2019 General, Macs, Technology

SystHist version 1.12 now resizes text

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Text in the centre view listing updates and installations can now be set to 4 to 24 points in size.

June 25, 2019 Macs, Technology

Signet version 1.1 has several valuable improvements

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Auto-update, text sizing, and proper Build numbers make for a worthwhile update.

June 25, 2019 Macs, Technology

Which log fields should be accessible in Consolation?

In Mojave, the unified log can contain up to 27 different fields, of which Consolation gives access to 26. Do you wish that to change?

June 25, 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 170, dated […]

June 24, 2019 Macs, Technology

Damaged apps can run normally: signature checks are complex

Signature checks are complex. On first run with a quarantine flag, they include the contents of the Resources folder, but seldom do after that.

June 24, 2019 Macs, Technology

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

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