Don’t clutter your backups with files you’d never want to restore. Here are five methods to exclude items from Time Machine backups to keep them leaner.
Category Archive: Technology
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 110. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Errand […]
How can you create a new accented or other character which doesn’t appear in Unicode? It depends on whether you want it in text, or PDF.
In macOS 11.5.1, Apple has squeezed a thimbleful of a patch into a ten-gallon can of update, more than 99% of which is overhead.
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Errand boy configured […]
A great advance in APFS which enables Big Sur’s Sealed System Volume, and backups being made to APFS. Here they’re fully explained.
A lot of what Time Machine does when making backups to an APFS volume remains a mystery. So far we don’t understand the magic used by Apple.
You don’t have to create a whole new keyboard layout for occasional access to emojis and symbols. Input Methods and Keyboard Layouts explained.
The macOS 11.5.1 update fixes a serious vulnerability, but does it really take 2.2 GB (Intel) or 3.1 GB (M1) to fix what could only have been a few MB at most?
Details options available for rounding floating point numbers, and all the scalar floating point operations. There’s another cheat sheet summary too.
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