Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through whatever you’re now allowed to do. 1: Like lightened […]
Category Archive: Technology
AirDrop is very convenient, but sets the quarantine flag, which can break Apple’s installer apps. Here’s how to remove those flags in a couple of minutes.
If you haven’t upgraded to Big Sur yet but intend doing so early, be reassured: it’s one of the smoothest for years. Full details and a few tips to help.
How Catalina and Big Sur handle the first run of apps which have their quarantine flag set. With details of log entries seen in both steps needed for approval.
I was wrong: the first proper update to Big Sur is version 11.1, and next year we should be grappling with macOS 12.
Opens a window on all the new Platform Security settings of Apple Silicon Macs, and checks their iBoot firmware version. Minor tweaks for Intel users too.
Should work fully with firmware and security updates on Macs of all species from El Capitan to Big Sur, including new M1 Macs.
This article lists the firmware versions of Macs which have been successfully updated to run macOS 11.7.10. Apple […]
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 73. Here are my solutions to them. 1: I […]
How macOS checks executable code before it’s loaded and run, in macOS 10.15 and 11.0. Covering integrity checks using hashes, and validity of the signing certificate, on Intel and ARM.
