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Category Archive: Macs

Last Week on My Mac: Apple’s new reality distortion field

A crass security bug, not changing version numbers, undocumented file formats, and stunted log access: components in the new RDF.

October 8, 2017 Macs, Technology

How to speed up Time Machine backups

You may still have plenty of space on your backup volume, but if it has millions of files and hard links from years of backups, it will be very slow. Here’s how to fix that.

October 7, 2017 Macs, Technology

Losing your Ethernet port unverifies your Mac

Even if you don’t connect it, a Mac’s Ethernet port is vital to authorise it to the App Store and more. Here’s how to cope if it goes missing.

October 6, 2017 Macs, Technology

What the High Sierra Supplemental Update actually updates

As usual, Apple’s release notes for the Supplemental Update to High Sierra, released on 5 October 2017, fall […]

October 5, 2017 Macs, Technology

High Sierra “Supplemental Update” now available (updated)

Apple has released a “supplemental update” for macOS High Sierra 10.13 from the App Store. According to the […]

October 5, 2017 Macs, Technology

How Disk Utility can crack High Sierra’s encrypted volumes (updated)

Can you trust High Sierra’s new encryption features, now that it’s known they can reveal your password?

October 5, 2017 Macs, Technology

More Scripting in Swift: Shuffling files and writing a property list

Using Swift 4 for a classic scripting task: copying and restructuring files and folders, here to create a logarchive bundle.

October 5, 2017 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed an update to Gatekeeper configuration data

Apple has very recently pushed out an update to Gatekeeper’s configuration data, bringing it to version 131, which […]

October 5, 2017 Macs, Technology

Which EFI firmware should your Mac be using?

A checklist of the latest EFI firmware versions which should be running on each recent Mac model.

October 4, 2017 Macs, Technology

Silent High Sierra night: security settings files in macOS High Sierra

List of current version numbers for security data files and other systems which Apple may push silent updates for. Includes new EFI firmware checker.

October 4, 2017 Macs, Technology

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