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Category Archive: Macs

Apple silently updates XProtect and MRT security protection

Today, Apple has again silently updated two sets of configuration data for the security protection built into macOS […]

November 18, 2016 Macs, Technology

Goodbye AppleScript

I’m heartbroken that AppleScript is going, and grieving at the departure of Sal Soghoian, but I’m looking forward to getting to grips with the scripting tools of the future.

November 18, 2016 Macs, Technology

A Console replacement for examining past logs in Sierra: LogLogger 5b (updated)

This update includes documentation, performs some predicate operations properly, and saves the shell command to log excerpt files.

November 17, 2016 Macs, Technology

Bugs in macOS Sierra Finder: window maximise doesn’t

Maximise a List view window in Finder, and it should expand to accommodate the contents. Only sometimes it doesn’t.

November 16, 2016 Macs, Technology

Porting from WordPress to Storyspace, 6: glossary and index

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I almost forgot the end matter: it’s time to add a glossary, and an index. But would built-in Find suffice?

November 16, 2016 General, Language, Macs, Painting, Technology

Watch the other hand: Apple’s evolving input devices

Apple worked a sleight of hand with its Watch: it wasn’t about a watch, but all about a new line of haptic-rich input devices. They’re starting to ship them now.

November 15, 2016 Macs, Technology

Shazam: it keeps listening even when turned off

Do you have the app Shazam installed on any of your Macs? Patrick Wardle has just discovered that […]

November 14, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

iCloud, Spotlight, and Time Machine

When you keep documents in iCloud, are they backed up in Time Machine, searched in Spotlight, and kept securely?

November 14, 2016 Macs, Technology

Last Week on my Mac: Apple hasn’t really changed in 25 years

A curious experience when trying to buy AppleCare cover shows that Apple hasn’t changed that much after all.

November 13, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

How to check that Time Machine is working properly

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When did Time Machine make its last backup? Are you sure that it completed without error? Here’s how to check these simply.

November 12, 2016 Macs, Technology

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