Skip to content

The Eclectic Light Company

Macs & painting – 🦉 No AI content
Main navigation
  • Downloads
  • Freeware
  • All Macs
  • M1-M5 Macs
  • Troubleshooting
  • Painting
  • Mac Front Page

Category Archive: Macs

Saturday Mac riddles 363

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

June 6, 2026 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: Getting a location

Without GPS and cellular connections in iPhones, Macs have a more limited choice of methods for estimating their location. Most important and accurate information comes from nearby Wi-Fi access points.

June 6, 2026 Macs, Technology

Get more from Get Info and the Finder’s contextual menu

How to find and use the Finder’s Get Info sibling, the Inspector, how to make exact duplicates, a free slideshow without Keynote, and an Easter Egg.

June 5, 2026 Macs, Technology

Stop your photos revealing your location

T T Read More

Presents various ways to prevent location data from being revealed to others when sharing or using images created on an iPhone and similar. This is not just for privacy, but to ensure your safety.

June 4, 2026 Macs, Technology

Have you saved thousands of versions? Versatility 1.2 might be what you need

My scratch writing file turned out to have a total of 3,702 versions saved in the macOS database. Archiving them all required changes to Versatility, in this new version.

June 3, 2026 Macs, Technology, Updates

Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS

Apple has released its regular weekly update to XProtect for all versions of macOS, bringing it to version […]

June 2, 2026 Macs, Technology, Updates

BSD flags are incompatible with iCloud Drive

Eight BSD flags are available in APFS to lock files, hide them, and restrict them in other ways. None of them synced correctly in iCloud Drive, and four caused other problems.

June 2, 2026 Macs, Technology

Apple has released macOS Tahoe 26.5.1

Apple has just released a patch update to macOS Tahoe to bring it to version 26.5.1. This “addresses […]

June 1, 2026 Macs, Technology, Updates

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 362

I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 362. Here are my solutions to them. 1: From -12:00 […]

June 1, 2026 General, Macs, Technology

What Location Services do in macOS

Although included in Privacy & Security settings, it has nothing to do with TCC or tccutil, but is run largely by its own service locationd. This is what it does, and how to control it.

June 1, 2026 Macs, Technology

Posts navigation

Previous 1 … 7 8 9 10 11 … 669 Next
Blog at WordPress.com.
Footer navigation
  • About & Contact
  • Free Software Menu
  • Macs
  • Painting
  • Downloads
  • SilentKnight, Skint, SystHist, silnite, LockRattler & Scrub
  • XProCheck, T2M2, LogUI, Ulbow, blowhole and log utilities
  • Mints: a multifunction utility
  • xattred, SpotTest, Providable, Spotcord, Metamer & xattr tools
  • Versatility & Revisionist
  • DelightEd & Podofyllin
  • Precize, Alifix, UTIutility, Sparsity, alisma, Taccy, Signet
  • System Updates
  • Spundle, Cormorant, Stibium, DropSum, Dintch, Fintch and cintch
  • Virtualisation on Apple silicon
  • Cirrus & Bailiff
  • Text Utilities: Textovert, Disclipper, Nalaprop, Dystextia and others
  • sysctl information
  • Extended attributes (xattrs)
  • 32-bitCheck & ArchiChect
  • Keychains & Permissions
  • PDF
  • VisualLookUpTest
  • Updates
  • Long Reads
  • Mac Troubleshooting Summary
  • Saturday Mac Riddles
  • Last Week on My Mac
  • Painting topics
  • Mac problem-solving
  • M-series Macs
Secondary navigation
  • Search

Begin typing your search above and press return to search. Press Esc to cancel.

  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • The Eclectic Light Company
    • Join 9,314 other subscribers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • The Eclectic Light Company
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
Loading Comments...