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Category Archive: Technology

Stibium 1.0 will now benchmark your SSDs

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Improved tests, statistical analysis, and interface, together with a 21 page Help book detailing its range of tests in 5,000 words. Ready to use for real.

January 11, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Last Week on My Mac: Intricacies of the boot disk

Boot disk volume layout is intricate in Big Sur. M1 Macs lose the EFI partition on their internal SSDs and gain two more for APFS. Contents of /System/Volumes has also changed.

January 10, 2021 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 81

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

January 9, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Boot disk layout on Intel and M1 Macs: High Sierra to Big Sur

Diagrams of the layout of volumes on boot disks for macOS 10.13 to 11, covering both Intel and M1 models.

January 9, 2021 Macs, Technology

Notarisation: privacy controls

Final in series. Examines how the hardened runtime controls access to protected private data and services, and how some use private entitlements.

January 8, 2021 Macs, Technology

Notarization: the hardened runtime

Second in the series. Considers in detail what the hardened environment offers the user, and how notarized apps can opt out of its protection.

January 7, 2021 Macs, Technology

Taccy version 1.12 fixes a couple of bugs

Two bugs – one affecting SDK version beyond 11.0, the other changing designation of the Audio privacy entitlement. Now fixed.

January 6, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

How to benchmark your storage using Stibium

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Detailed tutorial steps you through getting accurate and reproducible benchmarks for your disks. Also further projects and tests you can try.

January 6, 2021 Macs, Technology

Notarization: is a notarized app ‘safe’ to use?

First of three articles looking in detail at what notarization involves, and the benefits it might have to users. Considers the question of legacy apps.

January 5, 2021 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 80

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 80. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Hold […]

January 4, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

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