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Category Archive: Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 328

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: 2: 3: […]

October 4, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: inodes and inode numbers

How APFS is the first Mac native file system to have true inodes and inode numbers. What they are, and how you can use them in volume groups and different types of file link.

October 4, 2025 Macs, Technology

Welcome to Tahoe’s Launch Angels

New to Tahoe is a folder containing three property lists for Launch Angels. What are they, how do the work, and where does RunningBoard come in?

October 3, 2025 Macs, Technology

Why did that macOS upgrade take so much space?

Why upgrading to Tahoe shouldn’t consume the last free space on your Mac’s SSD, and once it has settled should use little more than currently. How to clear out old snapshots and reduce System Data.

October 2, 2025 Macs, Technology

Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS

Apple has released its weekly update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5317. As usual, it doesn’t release […]

October 1, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

LogUI 1.0 build 74 adds a Diagnostics Tool for your logs

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Build 74 adds a Diagnostics Tool to analyse and catalogue diagnostics folders that are or have been a live log store, including those saved in backups.

October 1, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

Do apps launch faster in macOS Tahoe?

Some apps have become very slow to launch in recent versions of macOS. It has been suggested that this might be improved in Tahoe. Is that confirmed by evidence?

September 30, 2025 Macs, Technology

Apple has just released macOS 26.0.1 Tahoe, 15.7.1 and 14.8.1

Apple has just released macOS 26.0.1 Tahoe, which fixes the problem upgrading to 26.0 on Mac Studio M3 […]

September 29, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 327

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 327. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Lost […]

September 29, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Inside the Unified Log 3: Log storage and attrition

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Log entries are purged from storage according to elaborate rules explained here, for different types of log entry. How to extend time coverage in those logs, and how to get free statistics about them.

September 29, 2025 Macs, Technology

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