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Category Archive: Macs

You can now really edit extended attributes with xattred

Now supports cut, copy and paste of any xattr between files or folders. Also adds quarantine flags, and reveals full content of most xattrs.

January 2, 2018 Macs, Technology, xattr

Scripting in Swift: Casting, Any, and implicit mutability

When to use as, as!, or as?, how to handle Any, and when you need to use var instead of let even though you don’t change the value.

January 1, 2018 Macs, Technology

Last Year on My Mac: Accident-prone

2017 was never going to be easy, and Apple had a lot of accidents over its closing months. It delivered a lot of new products, and with them a lot of new problems.

December 31, 2017 Macs, Technology

Essential Reading: *OS Internals, Vol I, User Space, by Jonathan Levin

Long-awaited, this new book tries to cover most of the ground that the advanced Mac user, developer, sysadmin, or support person needs to understand.

December 30, 2017 Macs, Technology

Safari offline reader is rapidly becoming functionless

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Offline reading is an important feature for many Safari users, particularly on iOS devices and laptop models. So why doesn’t it work?

December 28, 2017 General, Macs, Technology

Inside Finder Tags

The Finder manages its tags, so changing the label of any tag is immediately reflected in all items using that tag. But what are null tags, and why are they so common?

December 27, 2017 Macs, Technology, xattr

xattr: com.apple.metadata:_kMDItemUserTags, Finder tags

Details of where and how files and folders store their Finder Tag information. One of the few xattrs intended for the user.

December 27, 2017 Macs, xattr

SystHist now provides a structured history of updates too

Provides two views of your Mac’s update history: a simple text list, as before, and a structured version ideal for Macs with long histories.

December 26, 2017 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: The awesome power of the Duet

If Apple manages the performance of iOS, does it do the same with macOS? What is there to stop that from being used against us?

December 24, 2017 Macs, Technology

A new Xcode project for scripting in Swift 4.0: ScriptBase

A starter Xcode 9.2 project to form a base for quick, scripting-style apps. Free of all copyright, free to use. Runs on El Capitan, Sierra, and High Sierra.

December 23, 2017 Macs, Technology

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