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Category Archive: Macs

Events, handlers, and focus: how OS X apps work

Why it takes two clicks or taps to dismiss a dialog which is not the front window in OS X, and why that is correct.

February 1, 2016 Macs, Technology

Is brevity the soul of the abrupt, rude, and offensive?

Is Twitter’s 140 character limit the case of so much rudeness and offensive behaviour? Ask Richard Dawkins.

January 31, 2016 General, Language, Life, Macs, Technology

RIP The Land Rover (Defender)

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Production ends after 67 years. But how is the Mac doing after just 32 years?

January 30, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Losing their Sparkle: vulnerabilities in updaters

In-app update systems can be vulnerable to attack, if they do not use secure connections throughout.

January 30, 2016 Macs, Technology

A billion active devices

With only one Apple device for every 7 people in the world, Apple must still be marginal. And to have taken 8.5 years from shipping the iPhone is so slow. Doom or what?

January 29, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

OS X El Capitan is probably due an important security fix

A serious vulnerability was discovered in OpenSSL in the New Year. Although the conditions in which it is […]

January 28, 2016 Macs, Technology

Name that disk: what to call your storage

Being a hybrid, naming disks and volumes can get complex in OS X. This article demystifies them.

January 28, 2016 Macs, Technology

Taxing good sense: breaking old habits in forms

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Using Acrobat for filing your tax return is like sandpaper for cleaning your teeth.

January 27, 2016 General, Life, Macs, Technology

The Story in Paintings: Using Storyspace for analysis

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Tools provided in Storyspace are ideal for analysing text and painted narratives, as well as developing them into hypertext.

January 26, 2016 General, Language, Macs, Painting, Technology

Don’t get cached out: the perils of cached data

Sometimes cached data are not as concealed or transient as we might wish. Don’t get cached out by them.

January 26, 2016 Language, Macs, Technology

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