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Category Archive: Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 152

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 152. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Cursive […]

May 23, 2022 General, Macs, Technology

Calibrating your display in Monterey

Although it’s hidden away, your Mac’s display can still be set to use a custom colour profile. Here’s how to do that

May 23, 2022 Macs, Painting, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Will Disk Utility ever work properly?

Apple could have chosen to make APFS open source or to document it fully, to help third parties develop maintenance tools. It chose not to, but Disk Utility still doesn’t work as it should.

May 22, 2022 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 152

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Cursive handwriting on […]

May 21, 2022 General, Macs, Technology

Read Japanese using Live Text and Translation

Using Live Text to recognise kanji characters in a screenshot, then translating them from Japanese to English. Does it work?

May 21, 2022 General, Language, Macs, Technology

How to make more use of your backup disk

APFS backup disks offer different possibilities for adding volumes for your own use, alongside the backup volume. How do you decide what’s best?

May 20, 2022 Macs, Technology

Disk Utility can only check backup disks in Recovery

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In macOS 12.4, it’s impossible to run First Aid on any container or APFS volume on a disk with a Time Machine APFS backup volume, except in Recovery.

May 19, 2022 Macs, Technology

How much free space does an APFS disk need?

It depends whether you’re going to boot macOS from it, on the space required for snapshots, and how large they could become. And there’s more.

May 18, 2022 Macs, Technology

How hard disks get slower as they fill up

File data stored towards the periphery of the disk is read and written nearly twice as fast as that near the centre. How to take advantage of this.

May 17, 2022 Macs, Technology

What has changed in Monterey 12.4?

The update to bring Monterey to version 12.4 is substantial, and brings many changes across macOS. Apple’s release […]

May 16, 2022 Macs, Technology

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