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Category Archive: Technology

Consolation 3.5 tells you how many log entries, and more

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Recommended for all users, this adds a count of log entries and lines, runs an initial check to see whether you’re logged in as an admin user, and more.

November 25, 2019 Macs, Technology, Updates

Last Week on My Mac: ‘private’

Over a period of one minute 1636 of a total of 8638 log entries were censored with the mark ‘private’. Why can’t we disable this censorship?

November 24, 2019 Macs, Technology

There’s no smoke without painting 1

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The Sack of Troy, Turner, Vesuvius erupting, an unusual Manet maritime, Vallotton, Paul Nash, Monet, Luce, Signac, Stella and more going up in smoke.

November 23, 2019 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 22

Everyone should be able to get this week’s. Why not have a try yourself?

November 23, 2019 General, Macs, Technology

Are you ever likely to use Terminal in Catalina?

Do you know how to customise the zsh shell now standard in Catalina? Here’s an excellent book which covers it in detail – and curious choice in 10.15.

November 23, 2019 Macs, Technology

How to encrypt files and folders in APFS

What if you don’t want whole disk encryption? If your Mac doesn’t have T2, or if you’re using an external drive, encryption is still performed in software. Here’s a good solution.

November 22, 2019 Macs, Technology

Why macOS has to change, and how iOS is showing the way

When everything is running sweetly, macOS performance isn’t a problem. In most respects, though, 10.15 is no better prepared to cope with problems than 10.0 was almost 20 years ago.

November 21, 2019 Macs, Technology

T2M2 now helps track free space on your backup volumes

New version tells you free space available on your backup volumes, as well as checking for errors occurring during backups.

November 20, 2019 Macs, Technology, Updates

PDF Without Adobe: 26 a PDF protection racket

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Dealing with protected PDFs in macOS: fully encrypted, and those with controls such as no printing or copying. Oh dear.

November 19, 2019 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 21

How many solutions did you come up with this week? It should have been quite possible to get all three.

November 18, 2019 General, Macs, Technology

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