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Category Archive: Technology
Signs of thermal strain in a Mac, including what kernel_task is doing, how to encourage heat dissipation and reduce it production.
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?
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.
Apple has just released the now-regular weekly update to XProtect for all versions of macOS from El Capitan […]
With the heat of summer drawing near, it’s time to consider keeping our Macs and their peripherals cool. Covers thermal paste, heat sinks, fans and more.
Apple has released updates to bring macOS Sonoma to version 14.4.1, build 23E224, and that for Ventura 13.6.6. […]
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 248. Here are my solutions to them. 1: With […]
B+trees, directory records, directory and file names and Unicode normalisation, and whatever happened to the promise of fast directory sizing?
We’re almost unaware of clone files, and how they’ve changed macOS. But look at most documents that have been saved more than once, and you’ll see they’ve now be cloned.
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