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Category Archive: Technology

SilentKnight 2.2 helps you avoid unintended updates, and copes with failed installs

New version for Catalina and later lets you remove the Install All Updates button to prevent error, and works around bugs in Content Caching servers.

October 31, 2022 Macs, Technology, Updates

Last Week on Your Mac: Did you jump or were you pushed?

Not everyone who upgraded to Ventura last week did so intentionally. Here’s why, and how SilentKnight had a part to play, which will be fixed shortly.

October 30, 2022 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 175

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Roll onto the […]

October 29, 2022 General, Macs, Technology

Silently updated security data files in Ventura

From AppleKextExcludeList to XProtect Remediator, what’s where, its current version, and which have fallen into disuse.

October 29, 2022 Macs, Technology

Stage Manager, intuition and changing interfaces

Why Stage Manager can’t be ‘intuitive’, but needs to tackle forests of windows and excessive distractions in novel ways.

October 28, 2022 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed an update to XProtect Remediator

Apple has just pushed its regular fortnightly update to XProtect Remediator security software for Macs running Catalina or […]

October 27, 2022 Macs, Technology, Updates

Making the most of Apple silicon power: 7 Virtualisation and core use

Virtual CPU cores are of one type, and QoS has no effect in virtualised macOS. This has consequences for both the host and guest macOS.

October 27, 2022 Macs, Technology

Ventura for early adopters

Changed installers, post-update security mayhem, Stage Manager for those sensitive to motion, memory leaks, an Endpoint Security bug, and more.

October 26, 2022 Macs, Technology

Ventura volume layout

Updated charts of containers and volumes on boot volume groups for Ventura, with details of cryptexes and what they do.

October 25, 2022 Macs, Technology

Apple has released Ventura, and security updates to Monterey and Big Sur

Apple has just released macOS 13 Ventura, together with security updates to Monterey and Big Sur. If you’re […]

October 24, 2022 Macs, Technology, Updates

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