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Category Archive: Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 100

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s special centenary edition of Mac Riddles. Here are my solutions to them. […]

May 24, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Mints 1.5 reports recent boots and solves normalization

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Now lists the time of the start of all boots in the last 24 hours, and helps you with Unicode normalization problems.

May 24, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Last Week on My Mac: Feeling fast, the psychology of computer performance

We commonly suffer failures of the psychology of Mac performance, when system background tasks overwhelm the processor and bring the interface to a grinding halt

May 23, 2021 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 100

Here are this weekend’s riddles – a special centenary edition – to entertain you through whatever you’re now […]

May 22, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

How WordPress comments and Property Lists can trip you up

When you write a comment to an article here, or edit a Property List, you’re editing XML. Two or three characters won’t work properly.

May 22, 2021 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

M1 Secure Boot, morphine and self-destruction

One command in Terminal which instantly disables any support, and why you can’t (yet) boot your M1 Mac in Linux.

May 21, 2021 Macs, Technology

Adding more Thunderbolt ports using a Kensington SD5700T Dual 4K Dock

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It has been years coming, but I’ve finally got a Thunderbolt hub/dock which lets me connect more TB3 disks. Was it worth the wait and cost?

May 20, 2021 Macs, Technology

Dealing with a kernel panic during M1 startup

My M1 Mac mini was stuck trying to start up. Its power light was on, but there was no video output, and to all intents it was dead.

May 19, 2021 Macs, Technology

Getting more from Activity Monitor: CPU

What you can learn about the processes running on your Mac, its processor cores, even the files which an app has open.

May 18, 2021 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 99

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 99. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Open, […]

May 17, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

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