An efficient means of storage with many uses, but riddled with bugs and shortcomings. Explains how to compact and resize them, and more.
Category Archive: Technology
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?
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through whatever you’re still allowed to do. 1: Maybe for […]
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?
Tests bring some surprises, with encrypted sparse bundles looking resilient to small amounts of corruption.
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.
Looks at plain text, CSV, XML, JSON, RTF, RTFD, .docx, .xlsx, and PDF. Which should you trust with your important documents in archives?
Which format – alongside Camera Raw – should you store archived images in: JPEG, PNG, TIFF or Apple’s new HEIC?
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 43. Here are my solutions to them. 1: keyboard […]
There are widespread reports that Microsoft AutoUpdate (MAU) version 4.22, which was released on 14 April 2020, doesn’t […]
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