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Category Archive: Macs

Why we can’t keep stringing along with Unicode

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Unicode is wonderful, a foundation for culture, but flawed. With characters that are visually indistinguishable having different encodings, it is rotting our filenames, URLs, and strings.

June 10, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Technology

The Time Machine Mechanic (T2M2) version 1.0 released

Now places its report in a scrolling text view, has extensive Help book, and more. The only tool for checking that Time Machine backups are being made properly.

June 9, 2017 Macs, Technology

A Tinderbox Scrapbook for Source Code: plain text and public order

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Making sure that macOS doesn’t mangle source code behind your back, and a simple solution to getting notes exported in the right order.

June 8, 2017 General, Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed out silent security updates

Apple has just pushed two security updates, and a Chinese Word List update. The security updates bring its […]

June 7, 2017 Macs, Technology

Consolation version 2.2 is here

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Free, works with Sierra and other unified logs, examines log entries already in the log, unlike Console. Now supports logarchives and more.

June 7, 2017 Macs, Technology

macOS High Sierra 10.13 and APFS

Yesterday’s Keynote at WWDC confirmed that the next major release of macOS, dubbed High Sierra, will be released […]

June 6, 2017 Macs, Technology

A Tinderbox Scrapbook for Source Code: exporting in WordPress markdown

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How to create a scrapbook for Swift code snippets, which can be copied into Xcode, and exported for Wordpress publication.

June 6, 2017 General, Macs, Technology

Exploring Sierra 10.12.5 sleep and wake in the log 1

Waypoints to help you navigate through Sierra’s log entries when putting a Mac to sleep, and when waking up from sleep.

June 5, 2017 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed out a silent update to Gatekeeper data

Over the weekend, Apple has pushed out another update to macOS / OS X Gatekeeper’s configuration data, bringing […]

June 4, 2017 Macs, Technology

Next Week on My Mac: All the fun of WWDC

Its annual developer conference will reveal how Apple’s new file system will roll out in macOS 10.13, and determine its adoption and success.

June 4, 2017 Macs, Technology

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