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Category Archive: Macs

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

Sierra Log Tutorial: Exploring a startup

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How to explore what happens during startup, and hone in on problems. The second tutorial, medium level.

November 11, 2016 Macs, Technology

Porting from WordPress to Storyspace, 5: galleries and timelines

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Now’s a good time to bring some order to the paintings in the gallery, and to get the timeline working properly.

November 10, 2016 General, Macs, Painting, Technology

Adobe updates Flash Player to version 23.0.0.207

Adobe has yet again updated its Flash Player, to version 23.0.0.207, which is available from here. This new […]

November 9, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

AppleCare and warranty cover for Macs

What does AppleCare cost, is it worth it, how can you get it, and can you transfer it? And more.

November 9, 2016 Macs, Technology

Sierra Log Tutorial: Getting started, Time Machine errors, and restarts

A basic tutorial showing how to get useful information from Sierra’s new logs, using LogLogger5.

November 8, 2016 Macs, Technology

Wireless headphones and lip sync

Why did Apple keep the headphone socket on its new MacBook Pro, but remove it from new iPhones?

November 7, 2016 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Last Week on my Mac: Try turning it off and back on again

We need a bridge between Swift Playgrounds, Raspberry Pi, and other educational environments, and full-blown SDKs. That includes RAD tools and the likes of Console.

November 6, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

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