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Category Archive: Technology

Last Week on My Mac: On-board diagnostics

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Handling errors means more than a couple of jargon phrases and a magic number. Designing for error requires the user to be at its centre.

January 16, 2022 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 134

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Communion, Civil, banking, […]

January 15, 2022 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: Metal

Metal provides low-level access to 3D graphics, rendering and compute features in GPUs. With the deprecation of OpenGL and OpenCL, it’s vital, especially for M1 Macs/

January 15, 2022 Macs, Technology

Solutions for macOS Monterey and Big Sur

From killing a process, through a regular restart, to Recovery and a bootable external recovery disk, all you need to know about fixing your Mac in macOS 11 and 12.

January 14, 2022 Macs, Technology

Scheduling of Processes on M1 Series Chips: first draft

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An accessible summary of the CPU cores in M1 chips, and how they appear to be managed by macOS to get the best for different classes of process.

January 13, 2022 Macs, Technology

How macOS manages many processes on M1 cores

Results from running 10-70 identical compute-intensive processes on M1 chips shows the differences in strategy between background and high priority settings.

January 12, 2022 Macs, Technology

Ruby text in Pages

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A valuable feature for many Pages users, it’s carefully hidden from anyone who doesn’t normally use Japanese, Chinese or Korean.

January 11, 2022 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 133

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 133. Here are my solutions to them. 1: The […]

January 10, 2022 General, Macs, Technology

Inside iCloud+ Private Relay: can it be trusted?

Apple’s Private Relay service isn’t a full VPN, but is designed to ensure that no one knows both your IP address and the sites you connect to. Is it a good choice?

January 10, 2022 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Has Time Machine slowed?

Since Catalina, reports of Time Machine backups slowing to a crawl have become common, but the reasons are unclear. It’s time for Apple to inform us.

January 9, 2022 Macs, Technology

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