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Category Archive: Technology

How to share large files without using your iCloud allowance

This free service doesn’t use up any of your iCloud space allowance, and can send attachments of up to 5 GB in size. Here’s how to use it on the Web, and in the Mail app.

July 12, 2021 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: A tendency to panic

Close to the top of my shortlist of new features in the next Apple Silicon Macs is that kernel panics become a thing of the past.

July 11, 2021 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 107

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Unenclosed, frank, or […]

July 10, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: checksums, CRCs, hashes and cryptography

What are checksums, CRCs and hashes? What is required for a hash to be cryptographic, and how any of these affect your Mac? Some answers and explanations.

July 10, 2021 Macs, Technology

Finder’s metadata puzzles

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Useful metadata shown in two places, and available as columns in List views. But some things don’t match up, and information changes in front of your eyes.

July 9, 2021 Macs, Technology

Code in ARM Assembly: Moving data around

Explaining the LDR family of instructions for loading registers, MOV for moving one register to another, STR for storing to memory, and SXTx/UXTx for filling a register with smaller data types.

July 8, 2021 Macs, Technology

Extensions are moving away from the kernel

Management of kernel extensions has changed significantly in Big Sur and later. This overview for users contrasts kexts with user-level extensions which are replacing them.

July 7, 2021 Macs, Technology

Code in ARM Assembly: Flow, pipelines and performance

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How conditional branching can slow modern processors down badly, comparing assembly code with that generated by Apple’s Swift compiler, and some puzzles.

July 6, 2021 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 106

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 106. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Stock […]

July 5, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

How to recognise and diagnose kernel panics

Recognition, immediate action including capturing the panic log, discovering clues as to cause, further investigations to diagnose and address the cause.

July 5, 2021 Macs, Technology

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