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Category Archive: Technology

How clean re-installs change in Catalina (updated)

When you go to perform a clean re-install of Catalina, what should you do? Which volume(s) to erase or delete, and how to fix problems?

December 17, 2019 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 25

Suggested solutions and explanations for Saturday’s three riddles. Did you get all three this week?

December 16, 2019 General, Macs, Technology

Time Machine: 5 Changing Macs and more

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Migration and inheriting backups from earlier macOS and Macs investigated and documented. It’s a smart system, but can take a long time. And a new version of T2M2.

December 16, 2019 Macs, Technology, Updates

Catalina 10.15.2 has changed Gatekeeper’s dialogs to confuse notarization status

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What’s changed in 10.15.2? One of Gatekeeper’s most important dialogs, which now suggests that notarized apps haven’t been notarized at all.

December 15, 2019 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Dictation, resources, and change

Innovation and advance are impossible without change, and implementing change successfully is crucial to Apple. Here are two examples of it not going right.

December 15, 2019 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 25

Three good excuses not to go Christmas shopping. Solutions posted on Monday morning.

December 14, 2019 General, Macs, Technology

Why does my Mac keep waking up?

When you wake your laptop up in the morning, it’s clear it has been awake half the night. How to ensure it gets a proper night’s sleep.

December 14, 2019 Macs, Technology

What happened to XProtect? Has it been forked?

If you follow macOS security updates, by now you’re probably completely confused over XProtect. Although it has been […]

December 13, 2019 Macs, Technology

Dictation changes in Catalina – for the worse?

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Mojave’s effective Enhanced Dictation is gone in Catalina, replaced by Voice Control. In some ways that’s better, but not for dictation.

December 13, 2019 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed updates to XProtect and MRT

Apple has pushed two updates today, to the data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number to […]

December 12, 2019 Macs, Technology, Updates

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