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Category Archive: Technology

Using Finder Item Groups

Have you tried arranging items in the Finder using Groups? Detailed insights into what this does, and how it works with apps.

April 29, 2020 Macs, Technology

File Integrity 9 : How error-correcting codes work

How can you squeeze recovery data into smaller storage space than you’d need for a second copy of a file? Using codes, explained here.

April 28, 2020 Macs, Technology

Accessing this blog – news feeds and pages

Details of how to get different news feeds from each part of this blog, and how to find information from its over 5,000 articles.

April 27, 2020 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 44

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 44. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Display […]

April 27, 2020 General, Macs, Technology

Sparse bundles: what they are and how to work around their bugs

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An efficient means of storage with many uses, but riddled with bugs and shortcomings. Explains how to compact and resize them, and more.

April 27, 2020 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Why file integrity is important

For all their compactness and ease of access, are our files going to prove less durable than a clay tablet recording a commercial transaction over 4,000 years ago?

April 26, 2020 General, Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 44

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

April 25, 2020 General, Macs, Technology

Why is kernel_task eating my CPU?

Your Mac goes all sluggish, you open Activity Monitor, and there at the top of the CPU list is kernel_task, taking 100% or more. Why?

April 25, 2020 Macs, Technology

File Integrity 8 : Compression, encryption and disk images

Tests bring some surprises, with encrypted sparse bundles looking resilient to small amounts of corruption.

April 24, 2020 Macs, Technology

Time to update updating

It’s dull and workaday, but important to every user. At the moment it just isn’t working properly, whether it’s the App Store or 3rd party subscriptions.

April 23, 2020 Macs, Technology

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