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Category Archive: Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 238

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 238. Here are my solutions to them. 1: They […]

January 15, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

Why the M2 is more advanced that it seemed

Apple’s M2 chip uses a newer version of the CPU core instruction set. This increases its capability, thus how well it will cope with future apps and macOS, compared with the M1.

January 15, 2024 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: magic updates

The keyboard firmware update that flew in under the radar, and one of many fixes in Sonoma 14.2 tackle different Bluetooth vulnerabilities. How do they affect you?

January 14, 2024 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 238

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

January 13, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

How M1 Macs may lag behind

M1 CPUs support ARMv8.5A, which doesn’t support the new bfloat16 floating-point format now widely used in AI. That’s likely to put them at a disadvantage.

January 13, 2024 Macs, Technology

All the software here that’s free to use in a new menu page

It has been a long time since I last updated the PDF guide to all the free software […]

January 12, 2024 General, Macs, Technology, Updates

Apple has released a firmware update for its Magic Keyboards

Apple has released a firmware update for its Bluetooth Magic Keyboards, although you can’t download it yourself, and […]

January 11, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

How virtualisation came to Apple silicon Macs

From Hypervisor APIs in OS X 10.10 Yosemite in 2014, through early VirtIO kernel extensions in Mojave in 2018, and Arm hypervisor support in Big Sur.

January 11, 2024 Macs, Technology

Time Machine in Sonoma: detection and diagnosis with T2M2

How to read T2M2’s report on your Time Machine backups, interpret the results, and discover where any problems are occurring.

January 10, 2024 Macs, Technology

Liviable version 1.0.5 (beta 5)

Fixes two bugs, including the saving and use of display resolution and other settings, has revised menus, and a full 13-page Help book.

January 9, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

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