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Category Archive: 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

Saturday Mac riddles 133

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: The period allotted […]

January 8, 2022 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: Logging out and in

Is logging out and back in again a good way to deal with problems? Although it can be, it might not do what you think it does any more.

January 8, 2022 Macs, Technology

How macOS controls performance: QoS on Intel and M1 processors

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Running processes at different Quality of Service affects their performance differently on Intel and M1 Macs. This explains what happens.

January 7, 2022 Macs, Technology

Booting an M1 Mac from hardware to kexts: 3 XNU, the kernel

Once the kernel takes over from iBoot, there’s a lot of hardware to get running before the SSV can be properly validation, and kernel extensions loaded.

January 6, 2022 Macs, Technology

Booting an M1 Mac from hardware to kexts: 2 LLB and iBoot

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Sometimes known as iBoot1 and iBoot2, they start work with the LocalPolicy for the intended boot volume, validating its vital components.

January 5, 2022 Macs, Technology

Booting an M1 Mac from hardware to kexts: 1 Hardware

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Understanding each of the four stages in the Secure Booting of an M1 Mac. These are summarised in diagram available here.

January 4, 2022 Macs, Technology

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