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Category Archive: Macs

Check your Mac with hardware diagnostics or AHT

How to run Apple’s diagnostic software to work out whether your Mac has a hardware fault – and how to interpret its error codes.

March 22, 2017 Macs, Technology

More fun scripting with Swift and Xcode: Sorting with a closure

How to sort an array of arrays of strings, on the contents of one of those strings, in just 4 lines of Swift.

March 21, 2017 Macs, Technology

HelpHelp: development version 0.2 is now available

It now sorts the popup menu, and reflexively even has its own Help Book – called, as you’d hope, HelpHelp Help.

March 21, 2017 Macs, Technology

More fun scripting with Swift and Xcode: Reading Plists, building popups, and more

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How HelpHelp accesses a large nested Property List files, handles its data as arrays, and uses NSHelpManager.

March 20, 2017 Macs, Technology

HelpHelp: a tool to search Help Books and debug problems

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First development release of a free tool to examine Help Books, their problems, and search Help for specified apps.

March 20, 2017 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Still looking for help

When it was written, Apple’s documentation of its Help system was incomplete and misleading. It simply doesn’t work like that.

March 19, 2017 General, Macs, Technology

How reliable is About This Mac’s Storage tab?

In Sierra, does yours work properly, not work at all, or give you incorrect figures?

March 18, 2017 Macs, Technology

Improving HTML from Tinderbox to Make a Better Help Book

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Tuning HTML export to produce exactly the right files, and tweaking the appearance. But can it also address a search bug?

March 17, 2017 Macs, Technology

Using HTML from Tinderbox 7 to make a Help Book

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Did the HTML files exported from Tinderbox actually work as a Help Book, or do they need hand-tuning?

March 16, 2017 Macs, Technology

Exporting HTML from Tinderbox 7: Using CSS for a Help Book

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Customising HTML export templates to produce a website with stylesheets, which can then be turned into a Help Book – part 1.

March 15, 2017 Macs, Technology

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