Backups are for recovery, while archives are for posterity. Plan for the future now by storing important files on durable media in your personal archives.
Category Archive: Macs
Have documents saved by your favourite apps lost their custom Thumbnails and Previews in Sequoia? Here’s what has gone wrong, and what you do about it.
Recommendations for the ‘standard’ user for security and privacy protection from startup to shutdown. A broad overview of all key systems and how they fit together.
If your Mac is still running Sonoma or Ventura, and you have already updated it to 14.7.1 or […]
How to check Apple Intelligence Reports, available when you use Writing Tools and other AI features in an Apple silicon Mac.
A broad overview of changes listed by Apple, with links, how to enable AI on compatible Macs, and version changes in bundled apps and libraries.
As expected, Apple has released the update to macOS 15.1 Sequoia, together with security updates to bring Sonoma […]
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 279. Here are my solutions to them. 1: The […]
Understand how TM backs up and how snapshots work to minimise the size of local snapshots and backups, and the time they take. How to ensure files in iCloud Drive are backed up properly.
What does the new Writing Tools feature in Sequoia 15.1 offer? Here are examples of its different types of summary, and a comparison with other types of AI.
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