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Category Archive: Macs

The Salome Story: analysing and telling changing narrative on your Mac

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Here’s a pre-release test version of my hypertext story about the stories of Salome, and a wonderful rhythmic workflow for hypertext authoring.

January 14, 2017 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

More fun scripting with Swift and Xcode: quirky commands

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A command which is seriously pernickety about its parameters, and sends all its output to the standard error stream. Such fun.

January 13, 2017 Macs, Technology

KeychainCheck 1.0: a little tool to check user keychains

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This may help you work out what is going wrong with local keychains in Sierra. Another free tool to spare you from Terminal.

January 13, 2017 Macs, Technology

Tackling keychain problems in Terminal

Sometimes resorting to Terminal can be the best and simplest way to fix a keychain problem.

January 12, 2017 Macs, Technology

If you’re still running El Capitan, Apple doesn’t care about you

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Does Xcode 8 support El Capitan, or does Apple leave it to developers to break the bad news to users?

January 11, 2017 General, Macs, Technology

Adobe releases Flash Player 24.0.0.194

This fixes two bugs, and thirteen vulnerabilities rated as being ‘critical’.

January 10, 2017 Macs, Technology

LockRattler 3, LogLogger 5d, and signature silliness

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Two apps from the same developer, both reported as being validly signed. But Gatekeeper claims one is from an “unidentified developer”.

January 10, 2017 Macs, Technology

Controlling privacy in macOS Sierra

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How to get the best out of the Privacy tab in the Security & Privacy pane, and why Apple’s apps don’t bother to ask.

January 9, 2017 Macs, Technology

Last Week on my Mac: Creaky old internet

You may think that you type URLs into your browser. In fact they’re IRIs, and the internet still can’t cope with Unicode. Why not?

January 8, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Technology

How fix a URL which breaks because of Unicode content

You paste a link containing Unicode characters such as accents, and it doesn’t work as you expect. Here’s how to fix it.

January 7, 2017 Macs, Technology

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