Which should you use, and what are their strengths and drawbacks? Symbolic links, hard links, aliases and bookmarks explained – oh, and a mention of firmlinks too.
Category Archive: Technology
A better Disk Utility, understanding Spotlight, Time Machine to APFS, an introduction to ARM assembly language, Shortcuts, and wiping it all.
There’s a fundamental difference in the way that Intel and M1 Macs store and load their ‘firmware’, which enables the M1 Mac to load and run difference versions of iBoot.
This article has now been extensively corrected and modified.
I hope that you enjoyed this Christmas’s Mac Riddles, episode 131. Here are my solutions to them. 1: […]
Have you got problems backing up to your NAS? Here is a series of four simple tests to perform to give clear insights and help you tune its performance.
Among the most useful are Archive Utility, now including Apple Archive compression, and Storage Management. But Network Utility is now non-functional.
in Mac OS 8 and 9, you could patch the system direct. OS X was harder, and became sprawling and interdependent, encouraging users to reinstall macOS. That has now ended with the introduction of the SSV.
Here’s a special Christmas edition of riddles to entertain you through what I hope is a long weekend […]
The first version of its predecessor, NetInfo, also handled DNS lookups. When they failed, users found they were locked out of everything else. This has improved!
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