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Category Archive: Macs

Power Management in OS X

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Do your settings in the Energy Saver pane differ from what actually happens? Learn how to use pmset to understand why, and diagnose old battery problems.

June 10, 2016 Macs, Technology

More mapstakes

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When I drove down the drive I had seen on the satellite view, it opened out to a block of flats. The care home had vanished.

June 8, 2016 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Monitoring SSD wear and ageing

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Two free tools to check how long your SSD, including those in Fusion Drives, is likely to last.

June 7, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Reducing the frequency of freezes in El Capitan

I may at last have found a way to reduce the frequency of freezing in OS X 10.11.4 and later.

June 6, 2016 Macs, Technology

WWDC: Fix the existing before launching the new

New toys expected include Siri for OS X, and OS X 10.12. Those should really please users with Macs that keep freezing, and bricked iPad Pros.

June 5, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

The Genius of Mac: ResEdit and resources

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If you wanted to mess someone’s Mac up, you could go into their system files and change things around when they were out at lunch.

June 4, 2016 Macs, Technology

How long will the SSD (in my Fusion Drive) last?

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How long will the SSD in your Mac last before it fails? Some seem to be going to an early grave. Is yours?

June 3, 2016 Macs, Technology

QuarkXPress 2016, Storyspace/Tinderbox, and HTML5

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The task: a simple, clickable interactive plan of paintings of Piazza San Marco in Venice, using HTML5.

June 2, 2016 General, Language, Macs, Painting, Technology

Known bugs in El Capitan 10.11.5: an incomplete summary

10.11.5 removes a bug in Disk Utility by disabling the feature to resize some partitions. That’s really helpful, isn’t it.

June 1, 2016 Macs, Technology

The difficulty of proving who you are

How, on the internet, can you prove that you are who you say you are? Could ‘internet IDs’ solve the abuse problem?

May 31, 2016 General, Life, Macs, Technology

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