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Category Archive: Technology

Last Week on My Mac: When the Internet caught fire

Last week, most of the servers around the world were found to have a serious vulnerability which is trivial to exploit. Even iCloud was affected. How does it affect you?

December 12, 2021 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 129

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Residence caring for […]

December 11, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: Quarantine

Quarantine flags first appeared in 2007. This explains how they work, what they do, and the differences between app and document quarantine.

December 11, 2021 Macs, Technology

How macOS reports crashes

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It’s no longer Crash Reporter, but Problem Reporter; how to get notifications instead of the default modal dialog; how to read and use crash logs.

December 10, 2021 Macs, Technology

Hidden files and folders on APFS volumes

Which of the cluster of hidden files and folders at the top level of an APFS volume should be preserved or copied to a copy of that volume?

December 9, 2021 Macs, Technology

Do M1 Pro and Max CPUs run slower on battery?

Does your M1 Mac run more slowly when it’s on battery power, or with Low Power mode enabled? An exploration of effects on its CPU cores provides an unexpected answer.

December 8, 2021 Macs, Technology

Comparing performance of M1 chips: 4 Icestorm

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The E cores on the original M1 and M1 Pro chips appear to be managed quite differently, with respect to the performance of background processes at low QoS.

December 7, 2021 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 128

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 128. Here are my solutions to them. 1: A […]

December 6, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Just like that: the Finder’s failed trick with APFS

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When you try ejecting a single volume of a bootable volume group on an external disk, other volumes are also ejected even though you chose to keep them mounted.

December 6, 2021 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: A Christmas Core Carol

Apple’s first quad-core chip, the A10 launched 5 years ago, had 2 P and 2 E cores, but could only run one type of core at a time. We’ve come a long way since then.

December 5, 2021 Macs, Technology

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