A firsthand account of how the Mac human interface was developed 40 years ago for the Lisa, and resources for learning to code for macOS.
Category Archive: Technology
A compilation of links to major service status pages and other resources to help you when that service is playing up.
The macOS 10.15.4 Supplemental Update released on 8 April 2020 isn’t a small update by any means, at […]
The volume should only be half full, but installers and other software complains there’s insufficient free space. What to do.
Apple has released macOS 10.15.4 Supplemental Update, an out-of-cycle update which fixes: problems taking part in FaceTime calls […]
Apple has pushed one update today, to the data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number to […]
To check the integrity of important documents, we’re going to calculate their SHA256 digests. But where should those be stored if HFS+ and APFS don’t have a suitable attribute?
Preview has strange behaviour when adding and editing annotations, even in Catalina. It quickly gets upsetting and unreliable.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 41. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Trackpad […]
If macOS can’t do it, how should we check the integrity of important files? Use a checksum, or a hash function? And which?
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