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Category Archive: Macs

Problems with iCloud shared data: how to tackle them

What can you do when Notes, Contacts, Calendars or Reminders stop syncing properly via iCloud? Where to look?

April 26, 2018 Macs, Technology

APFS encryption, ghost guest users, and odd UUIDs

Has someone hacked into your encrypted drive already, or is this another security vulnerability in High Sierra?

April 25, 2018 Macs, Technology

macOS 10.13.4 Security Update 2018-001 and Safari 11.1 (updated)

Apple has just released macOS 10.13.4 Security Update 2018-001, which fixes two vulnerabilities in Crash Reporter and the […]

April 24, 2018 Macs, Technology

What’s that? Using magic on your Mac

Telling what a file is – whether plain text, Unicode UTF-8, 32-bit code, and so on – can be hard. Just use a little magic, free in the command tool ‘file’. Includes Swift code to access magic numbers.

April 24, 2018 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed a security update to MRT, the macOS malware removal tool

Apple has just pushed an update to the macOS malware removal tool MRT, which brings it to version […]

April 23, 2018 Macs, Technology

32-bitCheck nows checks all code, command tools and dylibs included

New version 1.2 also scans Mach-O files like command tools and dylibs, to check if they are still 32-bit. The only complete check available.

April 23, 2018 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Apple Support and Demand

Apple Support has to be wonderful now because there’s hardly anywhere else to go to find out about our Macs and other Apple products.

April 22, 2018 General, Macs, Technology

iOS 11, or maybe 11.2.6, may change Photos’ handling of screenshots

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How the iOS Photos app may save your PNG screenshot images in JPEG format: one mystery solved, another opened.

April 21, 2018 Macs, Technology

32-bitCheck: version 1.1 scans in the background

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Now runs in the background – no more spinning beachballs! Also handles errors in folder paths better, and shows a ‘busy spinner’ when scanning.

April 21, 2018 Macs, Technology

Lost in iCloud Translation? When PNGs suddenly become JPEGs

When you take a screenshot in iOS, it is saved in PNG format. There is no option. So why do mine come across on iCloud Drive as a JPEG?

April 20, 2018 Macs, Technology

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