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Category Archive: Technology

You may notice something odd with the latest version of iMovie

Has the Profiles pane recently appeared in System Preferences? Here’s why – a minor glitch in the App Store update.

March 6, 2021 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 89

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

March 6, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Why is my Mac’s Gatekeeper data so out of date?

When you check the version of Gatekeeper data on a new Mac, why should it show one which was pushed by Apple nearly 5 years ago for El Capitan?

March 6, 2021 Macs, Technology

Running custom storage benchmarks using Stibium

How to measure read speed on storage using 1600 files totalling over 320 GB, enabling comparison between internal and external SSDs.

March 5, 2021 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed updates to XProtect and MRT

Apple has just pushed two updates, to the data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number to […]

March 4, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Time Machine to APFS: Evolution

How Time Machine has changed since it appeared in 2007, and how backing up to APFS volumes is different now it’s available in Big Sur.

March 4, 2021 Macs, Technology

Back to measuring the performance of M1 Mac internal storage

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Progress benchmarking performance of internal SSDs in M1 Macs: tests of 400 files totalling over 130 GB written and read in less than 50 seconds. And results.

March 3, 2021 Macs, Technology

What has changed in macOS, and why it matters

Users need to know what changes in each update to macOS, as it may fix existing bugs and introduce new ones. Here’s how I work out what has changed, and its limitations.

March 2, 2021 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 88

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 88. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Often […]

March 1, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Is APFS doing its job? Big Sur edition

APFS is almost 4 years old, and set out to solve the problem of accumulation of minor errors which has plagued HFS+. Has it?

March 1, 2021 Macs, Technology

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