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Category Archive: Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Would you regret an M1 iMac?

How ready are M1 Macs now for general use? There are still problems with docks, external boot disks, and using one external boot disk with multiple Macs.

May 9, 2021 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 98

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through whatever you’re now allowed to do. 1: An incision […]

May 8, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: Unicode, normalization and APFS

How Café and Café are actually different, and only one of those can be a filename in macOS, despite APFS being a non-normalising file system.

May 8, 2021 Language, Macs, Technology

Mints has a new page all to itself

A new support page contains supplementary info for Mints and its log extracts and tools.

May 7, 2021 Macs, Technology

Explore your App Store problems using Mints 1.4

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A new tailor-made log view shows what’s happened in interactions with the App Store, and can give clues as to the cause of delays and failures.

May 6, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Inside the App Store: how it delivers your apps

Detailed step-by-step account of how apps are downloaded and updated from the App Store. Welcome new internal names like Absinthe, Jetpack, and Crossfire, and Apple’s fraud score.

May 5, 2021 Macs, Technology

Summary of important security fixes in macOS

A lot has changed in recent versions of macOS over the last couple of weeks. This is a […]

May 5, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

When an app can’t connect to AppleID-linked services

Important rule: third-party apps can’t use your regular Apple ID password to connect to services, but use an app-specific password.

May 4, 2021 Macs, Technology

AirTags, Big Sur and your privacy and safety

Big Sur 11.3 includes support for AirTags, as explained here. Apple has also thought out how they could be misused, and how to prevent that.

May 4, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Apple has released Big Sur 11.3.1 update (updated)

Apple has just released a surprise update to Big Sur, bringing it to version 11.3.1. According to its […]

May 3, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

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