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Category Archive: Macs

Last week on my Mac: a new surge in malware?

Roundup of recent Mac news, looking particularly at two new varieties of malware, and how widespread and threatening they are.

July 10, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Reading logs: waking from sleep and backing up

Explaining the basic sequence of log entries for a Mac waking from sleep, and making a Time Machine backup.

July 9, 2016 Macs, Technology

Reading logs: shutdown and startup

How to understand Console’s log entries for a normal shutdown, and a normal startup.

July 8, 2016 Macs, Technology

Multiple Apple IDs, multiple users, and Family Sharing

Need to share some of your information with others? Have you thought about creating a secondary Apple ID?

July 7, 2016 General, Macs

More Mac malware: OSX/Keydnap

Maybe malware is always going to come in threes. Hot on the heels of the recent announcement of […]

July 6, 2016 Macs, Technology

A good time to get a slide copier

Have you got a Nikon DSLR and a load of slides you have always been aiming to digitise? Now is the time to act.

July 6, 2016 General, Macs, Painting, Technology

How ranking may be polarising society

Facebook, Google, Amazon, and others now use AI to make choices for us. Are they changing our opinions too?

July 6, 2016 General, Life, Macs, Technology

New Mac malware can open a backdoor into your system

Bitdefender Labs has announced the detection of new Mac malware, dubbed Backdoor.MAC.Eleanor, which can bypass built-in security in […]

July 5, 2016 Macs, Technology

Making best use of your backups

How often, and how much? Decide by thinking through how you would use your backup to restore your Mac after disaster.

July 5, 2016 Macs, Technology

El Capitan bug in Preview 8.1

This scrambles window content, making the app unusable for large images.

July 4, 2016 Macs, Technology

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