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Category Archive: Macs

Beyond mere appearance: Dark Mode, the semantics of colour, and text without print

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We’re still writing most text in black on a white background on displays with wide colour and high-resolution. Why not use colour for additional meaning?

October 11, 2018 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Watching Mojave’s privacy protection at work

TCC observed loading overrides during startup, and two typical sequences responding to access requests. Useful tips for fixing problems.

October 10, 2018 Macs, Technology

Comment back to normal

I have returned controls over the posting of comments to normal: you are again very welcome to post […]

October 9, 2018 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology, xattr

Dark Mode bugs in Mojave

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Displaying thumbnails and previews with white text on white background is a good party-trick, but quickly gets tedious.

October 9, 2018 Macs, Technology

Bend your mind with Rich Text in Dark Mode: I’m DelightEd

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All I wanted was a Rich Text editor which supported Dark Mode properly in Mojave. In the end, I had to write it myself.

October 9, 2018 Macs, Technology

Comments temporarily restricted to newer articles

For some weeks, this blog has been targeted increasingly by one specific source of comment spam. I am […]

October 8, 2018 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology, xattr

Busting 7 myths (lies) about Mojave

Stories about 32-bit support, APFS and Fusion Drives, widespread app problems, failed updates, Time machine, and privacy protection.

October 8, 2018 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Editing iCloud documents is far from seamless

Document versions can be a lifesaver when you need to reverse some changes or recover missing text. So why don’t they work on documents shared in iCloud?

October 7, 2018 Macs, Technology

Document versions are now preserved by iCloud, unreliably

You can now share old versions of documents in iCloud Drive. But don’t expect it to work properly, and stand by for profound confusion.

October 6, 2018 Macs, Technology

Booting the Mac: macOS 10.14 Mojave, and shutdown

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Stepping through key points in the log as Mojave 10.14 starts up. Most of the key waypoints are similar to those in High Sierra.

October 5, 2018 Macs, Technology

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