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Category Archive: Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 330

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

October 18, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: FileVault

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The T2 chip was designed for FileVault, and it comes at no cost to that and in Apple silicon Macs. Here’s how it works, and why everyone should enable it.

October 18, 2025 Macs, Technology

Inside the Unified Log 6: Difficult times

Apparently based on Mach absolute time, log entry times are converted to wallclock times. This exposes them to the vagaries of time zones, seasonal adjustments, and periodic wallclock adjustments. Here’s how all that works, and can confuse.

October 17, 2025 Macs, Technology

Check if an app is stuck in translocation

Why is that app slow to launch, unable to update itself, generally behaving erratically, and often crashes? Could it be stuck in app translocation? Here’s how to tell, and how to fix it.

October 16, 2025 Macs, Technology

Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS

Apple has just released its weekly update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5319. As usual, it doesn’t […]

October 15, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

Check your Mac is secure

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How to check secure boot, SIP, Gatekeeper/XProtect, its SSV, FileVault, macOS and its firmware, and XProtect Remediator scans.

October 15, 2025 Macs, Technology

Inside the Unified Log 5: Navigation

How to combine the time of interest with waypoints to reduce 100,000 log entries to just a handful, and discover what you’re looking for in the log.

October 14, 2025 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 329

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 329. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Two […]

October 13, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Is Tahoe quicker to launch apps first time?

Whether a quarantined and notarized app undergoes translocation, Tahoe doesn’t run XProtect checks to determine if it’s malicious. And how to tell when an app is running from translocation.

October 13, 2025 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Tahoe’s elephant

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All of us rely on tone (brightness, lightness) to interpret what we see. Visual artists have gone to great lengths in tonal modelling, but macOS Tahoe offers only bleached-out white or blacked-out black.

October 12, 2025 Macs, Technology

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