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Category Archive: Macs

Mojave’s privacy protection: informing users

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Proposes and provides a simple graphical summary of privacy capabilities for apps in Mojave. Also shows how to add them in a Help window.

August 29, 2018 Macs, Technology

Apple warns us to prepare for Mojave

Apple has today released its guidance notes for system administrators, to help them prepare for the release of […]

August 28, 2018 Macs, Technology

Apple has released a second Supplemental Update for the MacBook Pro 2018 with Touch Bar

Apple has just released macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 Supplemental Update 2 for MacBook Pro (2018) models with T2 […]

August 28, 2018 Macs, Technology

Mojave’s privacy protection, command tools, and scripts

How can third-party command tools access files under Mojave’s new privacy protection? Isn’t this going to be a nightmare?

August 28, 2018 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed its weekly update to Gatekeeper’s data

Apple has just pushed an update to the data used by Gatekeeper, bringing its version number to 153, […]

August 27, 2018 Macs, Technology

Mojave’s privacy protection is complex and will crash innocent apps

Giving an app Full Disk Access doesn’t. The only way to give an app access to some protected data is by trying to access that data, but when macOS crashes that app, the user is stuffed.

August 27, 2018 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Apple’s Cloud of Unknowing

How did it take Apple so long to tell users of the imminent death of Back to My Mac? And why does Apple replace fully-functional Smart Keyboards?

August 26, 2018 Macs, Technology

Booting the Mac: Visual Summary

Single-diagram summary of how a modern Mac starts up in macOS 10.12 or 10.13, from pressing the Power button to running the kernel.

August 25, 2018 Macs, Technology

What’s stored in NVRAM?

Listing of known NVRAM variables and their usage/meaning, together with notes on how to change them.

August 24, 2018 Macs, Technology

Booting the Mac: the kernel and extensions

How macOS gets to load a hefty kernel and over 300 extensions so quickly: it cheats with a pre-linked kernelcache. And why you don’t see extensions loading in the log.

August 23, 2018 Macs, Technology

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