Every computer system needs a backup strategy to cope with different scales and types of disaster. How to work out what needs to be preserved, and how to do about reducing the risk of data loss.
Category Archive: Technology
Two command tools, lsregister and lsappinfo, are often recommended for dealing with LaunchServices problems. This summarises what they can and cannot do.
I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 371. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Brown beverage […]
A macOS update has just been announced, but your Mac can’t seem to find it. Here’s what to try next, so you can bring your Mac up to date. Includes details of log entries during a normal check.
Few Macs survived the past week without an update, and for more recent models that meant two updates. Have we gone forward, and if so, where have we got to?
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Brown beverage […]
Why floating point numbers expressed in hexadecimal are so difficult to read, and how to use Mints’ Floating Point Explorer to convert and understand them.
If you installed the first Xcode beta in macOS 26.5.1, it probably stopped you building any more VMs. Here’s what happened, and how to recover normal virtualisation, even creating Golden Gate beta VMs again.
The commands to use with softwareupdate to download and install different types of update and complete macOS installers. And how to deal with XProtect in Sequoia and later.
How macOS makes the association between file types and apps for the Finder and GUI, using UTIs and their associated data including filename extensions. Why clashes occur, and how they’re resolved.
