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Category Archive: Macs

Apple has just released an update to XProtect Remediator

Apple has just released an update to XProtect Remediator security software for Catalina or later, bringing it to […]

April 2, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

APFS: Containers and volumes

From the GPT division of storage space, through APFS containers, down to individual volumes, an account of how APFS works.

April 2, 2024 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 249

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 249. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Brown […]

April 1, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

Checking bootable systems using bputil on Apple silicon

Sometimes Apple silicon Macs refuse to boot from a bootable system. How to use bputil to check LocalPolicy and work out what’s gone wrong.

April 1, 2024 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Why Sonoma 14.4.1 was necessary

How one of the serious bugs in macOS Sonoma 14.4 came about, why it was so serious, and how Apple released a fix in 7 days of it being reported.

March 31, 2024 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 249

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

March 30, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

Invisible Unicode and compound emoji

A collection of zero-width characters, including the joiner used to create compound emoji, and others to control ligatures and line breaks.

March 30, 2024 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Keeping cool: control

Signs of thermal strain in a Mac, including what kernel_task is doing, how to encourage heat dissipation and reduce it production.

March 29, 2024 Macs, Technology

What to do when offered a new FileVault Recovery Key

You’ve just updated to 14.4 or 14.4.1 and are prompted to set up a new Recovery Key for FileVault. What do you do next, and how should you check the key?

March 28, 2024 Macs, Technology

Happy birthday APFS, 7 years old today

Introduced in iOS 10.3 on 27 March 2017, then in macOS 10.13 six months later. It ups and downs, and where it still has further to go.

March 27, 2024 Macs, Technology

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