Time to speak Klingon to your Mac. Or, rather, don’t try this at home or you could end up with mixed languages, and Help pages in something else.
Category Archive: Technology
Total updates required by 10.14 were 21.5 GB in 10 updates; for 10.15, those rose to 32.2 GB in 12 updates. For M1 Macs, Big Sur has already required 22.3 GB in 6 updates, and it hasn’t got to version 11.3 yet.
How each of the three different backup schemes used by Time Machine has worked, and how snapshots can work as backups.
An important feature for many iOS users, this has now appeared in macOS, despite not apparently being exposed to the user. Here’s what I know.
How can you check the integrity of important files you have stored in iCloud, or in a Time Machine backup, such as those made by Big Sur to APFS?
How the start of Time Machine backups to APFS volumes is scheduled and dispatched, and a fascinating Secure Backup Daemon.
Apple has this evening released yet another ‘patch’ update to Big Sur, bringing it to version 11.2.3. This […]
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 89. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Pull […]
The last five years have seen great changes in Mac firmware security. As Intel Macs are replaced by Apple Silicon models, firmware may at last be simpler and more secure at last.
What tells me that macOS isn’t about to be swallowed up into iOS? Look at what’s happened with Time Machine in Big Sur, which has undergone as much development as it did prior to release in 2007.
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