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Category Archive: Technology

A user’s guide to code signatures and notarization

Where can you see code signatures and notarization tickets, and how can you check them?

May 27, 2020 Macs, Technology

Apple has released Catalina 10.15.5 update, and security updates for Mojave and High Sierra

Apple has just released macOS Catalina 10.15.5 update and Security Updates 2020-003 for Mojave and High Sierra. These […]

May 26, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

How to make Time Machine backups to an APFS disk

Time Machine can’t make backups to a disk formatted in APFS. Oh yes it can – and here’s how you can do it too.

May 26, 2020 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 48

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 48. Here are my solutions to them. 1: printer […]

May 25, 2020 General, Macs, Technology

How to reveal ‘private’ messages in the log

Fed up with all those censored entries in the log? Here’s a simple way to turn privacy protection off and log uncensored again.

May 25, 2020 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 48

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through whatever you’re still allowed to do. 1: Born in […]

May 23, 2020 General, Macs, Technology

Test results aren’t necessarily as meaningful as you think

So your swab test is negative. That could mean that it was just a false negative, or you might not have the infection at all. How can you tell the chances?

May 23, 2020 General, Life, Macs, Technology

How come someone notarized my app?

When you open a four year-old app and discover that someone notarized it in August last year. What’s behind that surprise?

May 22, 2020 Macs, Technology

Bookmarks, a type of Alias: their access and use

They’re Base-64 encoded data which is related to the Finder Alias. Here’s how to resolve them in an app, at the command line, and in code.

May 21, 2020 Macs, Technology

Trials of the UK’s Covid-19 app: where next?

Confused aims and poor adoption could prove fatal, and dash hopes of ever using smartphone technology to our benefit in tackling the pandemic.

May 20, 2020 General, Life, Macs, Technology

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