Can your Mac control sleep of its display, disks and system independently of one another? Many can’t.
Category Archive: Macs
Currently they all look like old bugs, some going right back to Mavericks and earlier.
There are now three different Recovery modes. This explains which to use, and provides a flowchart to help you work out how best to reinstall in them.
Over a month after the release of macOS Sierra 10.12.4, Apple quietly let slip the news that it […]
Trying to get a more coherent overview of the different paths to concurrent, asynchronous, and background task management in macOS. Draft for discussion.
Structuring, parsing, and styling text is not difficult when you use Swift 3 as your scripting language.
Apple has released macOS Sierra 10.12.5 update. Reported improvements and fixes include: fixes audio stutter on some USB […]
When part of the mechanism which schedules and dispatches Time Machine backups fails, those backups become irregular. Here it is shown in a clear diagram.
Diagrams how a routine Time Machine backup is scheduled and dispatched using CTS and DAS.
The old bug in macOS Sierra, which has been present since its first release last year, resulting in […]
The Eclectic Light Company 