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Category Archive: Macs

Apple silently updates Gatekeeper security data for Sierra and El Capitan

Apple has today pushed out an update to its Gatekeeper Configuration Data, for Sierra and El Capitan users. […]

December 7, 2016 Macs, Technology

Building a better console replacement: an exercise in Xcode 2

Why does writing a simple app in Swift keep turning into an esoteric guessing game? More hurdles for re-scripting in Swift.

December 7, 2016 Macs, Technology

File system funnies in Sierra: folders that aren’t, and altered aliases

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Sierra brings undocumented weirdness to the Finder, with a folder that is, but it isn’t, and improved Finder aliases, which don’t work as well. Yet.

December 6, 2016 Macs, Technology

Protecting Sierra: SIP and its vulnerability

A significant vulnerability has been found in El Capitan and Sierra’s security protection. Will Apple fix it shortly in 10.12.2?

December 5, 2016 Macs, Technology

Last Week on my Mac: a tragedy to freedom in two Acts

How hard-won freedoms are being taken away by lies, stealth, and guile. A warning to other democracies.

December 4, 2016 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Living with the UK’s Investigatory Powers Act

Surely this Act was about terrorism and serious crime, wasn’t it? Why should I need to do anything different now it is law?

December 3, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Sierra’s limping camel: the App Store, as dysfunctional as ever

If there’s one update that we need, it is an App Store app which works reliably. The current one suffers from general dystopia.

December 2, 2016 Macs, Technology

macOS Sierra and Dropbox: have the problems resolved yet?

There were 2 serious incompatibilities when Sierra launched: ScanSnap which is now fixed, and Dropbox. How’s Dropbox doing now, then?

December 1, 2016 Macs, Technology

Losing control of your blog: changes to WordPress.com administration

On Monday, bloggers on WordPress.com sites got a surprise: the old WP Admin interface had vanished. Almost.

November 30, 2016 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Building a better console replacement: an exercise in Xcode 1

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How easy is it to build a real ‘scripted’-type app in Xcode? Here I start to re-implement an AppleScript app using Swift.

November 29, 2016 Macs, Technology

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