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Category Archive: 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

The Eclectic Light Company free software menu has been updated

After releasing a flurry of new apps recently – Dintch, Fintch, Spundle, and now Metamer – my menu […]

May 19, 2020 General, Macs, Technology

Metadata editing made easy with Metamer version 1

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Supporting 16 different types of metadata, from Authors to Version, you don’t need to know how they are stored, etc.

May 19, 2020 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 47

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 47. Here are my solutions to them. 1: password […]

May 18, 2020 General, Macs, Technology

Spundle: a new utility for creating and adjusting sparse bundles

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Saves you from having to learn how to use hdiutil, and supports 6 different file systems and custom band sizes.

May 18, 2020 Macs, Technology

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