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Category Archive: Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 317

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Total banker’s […]

July 19, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

A brief history of primary coding languages

From Lisa Clascal, used until the Mac got its own development environment in MPW and Object Pascal, to Swift, Apple has changed direction every decade.

July 19, 2025 Macs, Technology

Save your M-series Mac’s energy and battery

How your Mac can use less energy and power, run its battery down less, generate less heat, and keep its P cores for the work you want it to do for you.

July 18, 2025 Macs, Technology

Encryption and checking hashes slows faster SSDs

Does software encryption (APFS Encrypted) result in significant overhead when using faster SSDs with a faster Apple silicon Mac? What about computing SHA256 digests?

July 17, 2025 Macs, Technology

Checking data integrity

Checksums and CRC can be very quick, but have significant drawbacks. SHA-256 hashes are best, although there are also error-correcting codes used in optical disks.

July 16, 2025 Macs, Technology

Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all macOS

Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all supported versions of macOS, bringing it to version […]

July 15, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

What does RunningBoard do? 2 Managed apps

How to recognise Catalyst and iPadOS apps from RunningBoard’s job descriptions, and how iPadOS apps are launched differently. And why RunningBoard can take a high CPU %.

July 15, 2025 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 316

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 316. Here are my solutions to them. 1: From […]

July 14, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Updates for file integrity (Dintch/Fintch), compression (Cormorant) and LogUI build 70

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These updates feature overhauled windows, new app icons for compatibility with Tahoe, and have been rebuilt. LogUI gets a minor tweak that should improve its window controls in Tahoe.

July 14, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

Last Week on My Mac: Ghosts in the machine

A mystery volume mounts from nowhere, and its name starts with Creedence. This is a cryptex, also favoured in Apple’s Private Cloud Compute. Is it a ghost of the past, or harbinger of the future?

July 13, 2025 Macs, Technology

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