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Category Archive: Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 128

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: A roll of […]

December 4, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: Disk free space

Confused by this on APFS? So you should be, as it’s complicated by features like snapshots, sparse files, and the file system itself. There’s no single figure.

December 4, 2021 Macs, Technology

What to do when iCloud gets stuck

Understanding how iCloud works, and how files can be downloaded or evicted. Basic tests which are essential preliminaries, and using Cirrus to help.

December 3, 2021 Macs, Technology

What to do when your Mac slows to a crawl

If your Mac slows to a crawl, don’t just reboot it. Here’s how to discover what the likely cause is, and a structured approach to recovery.

December 2, 2021 Macs, Technology

Comparing performance of M1 chips: 3 P and E

Obtaining estimates for individual P and E core performance of processes run mainly in an ALU and those using floating-point and SIMD gives further insight and confirms the cores haven’t changed from M1 to M1 Pro.

December 1, 2021 Macs, Technology

Those little annoyances in Monterey 12.0.1

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Fed up with the Flying Pointer? Tired of the oldest Universal Bug in Finder Column Widths? Want updates from the App Store? These are some of the annoyances in 12.0.1.

November 30, 2021 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 127

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 127. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Projections, […]

November 29, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

How can you check the integrity of backed up files?

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For many users, it’s essential to be able to check the integrity of the data which are in a backup. This feature has changed when backing up to APFS.

November 29, 2021 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Are malware defences changing again?

The last time Apple paused updates to XProtect and MRT, it changed the way certificate revocations were checked, and introduced notarization.

November 28, 2021 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 127

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Projections, contours, where […]

November 27, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

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