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Category Archive: Macs

Excluding folders and files from Time Machine, Spotlight, and iCloud Drive

A brief reference to excluding items from being backed up, from Spotlight indexing their contents, and for them to be copied up to iCloud Drive.

July 9, 2024 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 263

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 263. Here are my solutions to them. 1: A […]

July 8, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

Check UPS, batteries and input devices using Unhidden

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Reading log entries made by a Private Framework for Battery widgets in Sonoma, it’s possible to track information about keyboards, mice, trackpads, UPS and internal batteries.

July 8, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

Last Week on My Mac: Buried treasure

Digging for buried treasure in the Unified log isn’t easy, but has a fine track history of bringing plenty of silver and gold. Here it’s about batteries.

July 7, 2024 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 263

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: A small […]

July 6, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

Do we still need to manage memory in macOS?

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Managing memory and its problems was an important part of running Classic Mac OS, but everything changed in Mac OS X. Do we still need apps to do that?

July 6, 2024 Macs, Technology

How Time Machine backs up iCloud Drive in Sonoma

Unless you exclude them from backups, Time Machine will back up all items in iCloud Drive as long as they’re stored locally when the backup is made.

July 5, 2024 Macs, Technology

Apple’s longevity by design

Are Apple’s products designed to last longer? A new white paper puts Apple’s case, and dismisses allegations of built-in obsolescence.

July 4, 2024 Macs, Technology

How to hide files and folders

How to prefix a file or folder name with a . to hide it, how to use chflags, and how they differ. And what are all those .DS_Store and ._ files doing?

July 3, 2024 Macs, Technology

How to discover what Apple silicon CPU cores are doing

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How could you study how Apple silicon CPU cores are used to run code? Comparisons between Activity Monitor, Xcode Instruments, and powermetrics.

July 2, 2024 Macs, Technology

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