Patchy mobile signal coverage is a sure way to flatten your iPhone or iPad battery very quickly. There must be a better solution than Airplane mode.
Category Archive: Macs
Over the last few days, Apple has pushed silent updates to Gatekeeper’s configuration data, bringing it to version […]
Many problems result from settings within your user account, or in your Home folder. Creating a new user helps you work out where the problem lies, and can work around the problem itself.
Just when you thought it was safe to update, everything goes terribly wrong. Before you lob your Mac out of the window, try these.
Safe mode, or Recovery? Which type of Recovery? How to engage all those useful modes at startup, and when shutting down.
As macOS gets more complex, diagnostic and control tools provided by Apple have become less accessible. This makes macOS harder to diagnose and support.
Everyone needs to get away from it all, but you may not realise just how badly you need a break until you are taking time out.
Scheduling background activities like making backups has moved from cron to launchd, and now to a more complex system. This has reduced the reliability of macOS and made it harder to support.
Apple has recently pushed another set of silent updates to the data files for security systems in macOS […]
Barriers to living in more remote areas with high quality of life are being removed, but self-sufficiency is important. Changes in macOS do not help.
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