From Cyberdog in 1996, through iTools in 2000, .Mac in 2002, the dreaded MobileMe in 2008, to iCloud in 2012 – a long and sometimes painful journey.
Category Archive: Technology
How does macOS track Recent items for apps? In a property list, using a Base-64 encoded Bookmark. Here’s how to decode, resolve and discover their contents.
Repairing permissions has a long history in Mac OS X. The permissions concerned have changed over the years, and it’s no longer what it once was.
Introduction to property lists, used in many places as well as the mainstay of preference files. How to change them safely without risk of conflicts.
How can you browse a logarchive sent from an iPhone, iPad, or someone else’s Mac? With Ulbow it’s really simple – and it can create logarchives too.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 214. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Peal […]
For Finder aliases, writing entries in the log, checking file integrity, comparing extended attributes, normalising text to Unicode Forms, and running the same checks as SilentKnight.
If you’ve updated to macOS 13.5, take a look at Location Services, in Privacy & Security settings. Do you notice anything missing?
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Peal and fastening […]
Where would you set the default call handler for macOS? And where in System Settings do you set the default web browser?
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