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Category Archive: Technology

How to back up your iCloud Keychain

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Keychains contain some of our most important and precious data, and are often shared with iOS devices using iCloud. How can you back them up then?

September 5, 2019 Macs, Technology

APFS, safe saves, inodes and the volfs file system

How can you refer to an important file or directory, no matter where it’s moved on a volume, even when it’s renamed?

September 4, 2019 Macs, Technology

Work in Progress: JMW Turner’s landscapes

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The evolution of a painting of Dieppe Harbour through pencil sketches and to watercolour rough, and some problems of his oil techniques.

September 3, 2019 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Cirrus 1.7 now copes with custom paths to iCloud Drive

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Cirrus now lets you change the paths used to open its special iCloud Drive browser: they’re stored in its preference file.

September 3, 2019 Macs, Technology, Updates

Should you upgrade to Catalina early?

Are you an early adopter, or a cautious delayer? Here’s some advice about the forthcoming upgrade to Catalina to help you decide.

September 3, 2019 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 10

Suggested solutions to the three puzzles posed here. How well did you do this week?

September 2, 2019 General, Macs, Technology

Interested in performance? Updated Signpost tools now available

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You can use Signposts readily from scripting languages, shell scripts, even within 3rd party apps, with the aid of these tools.

September 2, 2019 Macs, Technology, Updates

Last Week on My Mac: The minor update that took 5 weeks

Apple started the 10.14.6 update on 22 July, and has (perhaps?) completed it on 26 August, almost as bad as with High Sierra last year. Does this bode ill for Catalina?

September 1, 2019 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 10

Three riddles to keep you puzzling through the weekend, with solutions published on Monday morning.

August 31, 2019 General, Macs, Technology

SilentKnight 1.2 now reports the expected iBridge version

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Although mainly aimed at Macs with T2 chips, this update brings better saving of main window size and position too.

August 31, 2019 Macs, Technology, Updates

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