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Category Archive: Macs

More bugs in Sierra’s log system, and a new release of Blowhole

Sierra 10.12.4 introduced undocumented changes in the log system which may break apps which write to the logs. Here is Blowhole fixed for that change.

May 1, 2017 Macs, Technology

Watching Grand Central Dispatch at Work

The aim is to be able to run commands at regular intervals using GCD rather than launchd. Here are details of the code and resulting log entries, casting light on how GCD works.

May 1, 2017 Macs, Technology

Apple pushes silent update to XProtect and MRT for OSX/Dok malware

Apple has, over the last 24 hours, pushed silent updates which address the threat from the latest OSX/Dok […]

April 30, 2017 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Going back to the book

Search engines don’t work, as they’re indifferent to quality and accuracy of content. Existing eBook formats are little more than book-in-browser. So how to publish more demanding content?

April 30, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Technology

App Nap, Battery Endurance, and Grand Central Dispatch

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Despite its documentation vanishing, it’s clear that GCD does a lot more than provide an easy way to concurrency for app developers.

April 29, 2017 Macs, Technology

New macOS Malware: OSX/Dok (updated)

Ofer Caspi, of the Check Point malware research team, has published details of new malware targeting macOS and […]

April 28, 2017 Macs, Technology

Sierra’s System Integrity Protection (SIP): beyond root

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Why can’t you restore Chess.app from a backup, or trash Text Edit? How should you check that SIP’s protection is enabled on your Mac?

April 28, 2017 Macs, Technology

Moving a blog to Tinderbox: Troubleshooting Macs

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Pulling together articles here on Macs, and reshaping their content to create a user reference.

April 27, 2017 Macs, Technology

Apple updates macOS Malware Removal Tool

Apple has just updated the macOS Malware Removal Tool, MRT, bringing it to version 1.15. That new version […]

April 27, 2017 Macs, Technology

Startup tones, EFI, and fixing failed firmware updates

A guide to different tones sounded at startup, how to cope with EFI ROM update problems, and MacBook Pro 2016 issues.

April 26, 2017 Macs, Technology

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