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Category Archive: Macs

Data Compression

No matter how much disk storage you have, it just seems to fill up. Compressing little-used and archived items might be a good way to save space. Does it?

April 16, 2015 Macs, Technology

Beyond Unicode: lightweight fonts for language documentation

Standards like Unicode can be cumbersome when you are working in a remote place trying to build a tribal dictionary. SIL’s Graphite addresses that need.

April 16, 2015 Language, Macs, Technology

Disk Utility and diskutil

Disk Utility may seem the most mundane of all the utilities, but together with its command shell partners packs a real punch in several important areas.

April 15, 2015 Macs, Technology

New Tablets for Old

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There is something satisfyingly recursive about studying the contents of the first writing tablets on the latest of Apple’s tablets.

April 15, 2015 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Java update 8u45

Oracle has released a new build of Java, designated 8u45, which contains important and strongly recommended security updates. […]

April 14, 2015 Macs

When the backups stop: unravelling wireless backups

Maintaining backups with Time Machine or third-party software over a WiFi network is very convenient, but when it goes wrong can be a devil to repair. Here’s how to unravel these problems.

April 14, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Safari crashes when opening

Q Whenever I try to open Safari, I see an alert informing me that it quit unexpectedly while […]

April 13, 2015 Macs, Technology

Comfortable Computing

Working in comfort is not the luxury that it may seem. Aside from health and safety issues, productivity is at stake.

April 13, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Watch out: what lies ahead for the wrist

I had never seen Apple as patron to the proletariat. But from the disproportionate noise resulting from the […]

April 13, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Stick a Fork in WebKit, it’s Undone

Just as there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch, we should be equally suspicious of free web browsers.

April 13, 2015 Macs, Technology

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