They’re almost everywhere now: UUIDs and GUIDs identify disk volumes, printers, even the processes running on your Mac. Here’s an explanation.
Category Archive: Macs
If you want someone else to be able to run your script app, you’ll need to sign it and get it past Gatekeeper’s checks. Here are more details about the role of xattrs in those, and how to run a full check without downloading your app.
They’re responsible for determining Gatekeeper’s checks, contain Finder information, and much more. With a new free tool too.
Apple has pushed another silent update to the security data files for macOS Sierra and OS X El […]
macOS is now largely undocumented. It’s time to do the job ourselves: what about an open collaborative project?
Signposts from Sierra 10.12.6 recording key steps when logging in, out, and fast user switching. And a fascinating process which serialises its log entries.
What do you do when you open a document, only to find that the wrong app opens it? Here’s how to tackle that and more.
Digging into macOS Sierra and its logs to examine how Recent Items works. Useful insights into Launch Services, and potential historical info about documents opened.
It’s a System Prefs problem. No, a preferences file problem. No, it’s something else, but Apple once again won’t tell us how Recent Items works, or doesn’t.
Adobe has updated its Flash Player to version 26.0.0.151, which is now available from here. This update fixes […]
The Eclectic Light Company 