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Category Archive: Technology

Last Week on My Mac: The magic is how not what

Live Text appears straightforward OCR when you open an image containing recognisable text. What’s recorded in the log says that it doesn’t work like that, though.

June 5, 2022 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 154

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Record essential service […]

June 4, 2022 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: Error-correcting files

How to design a method which not only detects errors in file data, but enables them to be corrected? A tale of Hamming, Reed, Solomon and CDs.

June 4, 2022 Macs, Technology

Is Apple’s Malware Removal Tool dropping out of macOS 13?

Apple’s latest updated Platform Security Guide now omits all mention of MRT. Does that mean that it’s going to disappear from macOS 13?

June 3, 2022 Macs, Technology

Which are more reliable: hard disks or SSDs?

Two reasons for paying more and using SSDs are that they’re faster and more reliable. Data on failure and reliability don’t appear as clear as the ads, though.

June 2, 2022 Macs, Technology

Inside Live Text

Full details on which languages and apps are supported, and an explanation of how it works its magic.

June 1, 2022 Language, Macs, Technology

Colour Notes 7: Colourspaces and rendering

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An introduction to colourspaces, gamuts, and how images are rendered in colour, so that what you see on your display or in a print looks right.

May 31, 2022 Macs, Painting, Technology

Power on Tap: Dynamic control of P cores in M1 chips

Both P and E cores are run at different frequencies according to the load on M1 chips. This explores how macOS manages their frequencies and why.

May 31, 2022 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 153

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 153. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Chinese […]

May 30, 2022 General, Macs, Technology

Why Monterey’s Finder Find memory leak may not be fixed

Will Monterey 12.5 fix the memory leak in the Find feature in the Finder? That looks increasingly unlikely, and may influence your decision as to whether to upgrade.

May 30, 2022 Macs, Technology

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