It’s so tempting, isn’t it? There’s more to beta-testing than sending reports of problems to Apple. Here are some vital considerations.
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With a shiny new high-speed Samsung X5 SSD to test, I was looking forward to some real speed. Did it deliver good value for its high price, though?
Apple has pushed an update to the data used by Gatekeeper, bringing its version number to 171, dated […]
Until 1880, varnishing oil paintings was standard practice, but three completely different types of varnish were used. A journey through names like sandarac and colophony.
Now can check apps (bundles with the extension .app) to determine whether they’re notarized, from Apple, App Store, etc.
This PDF contained 161 scanned pages from a book, but not one word could be accessed as text, despite using OCR on them. What can you do?
Here are the answers – and are always open to alternatives.
When you replace the internal disk fitted by Apple, some Macs seem to stop installing EFI firmware updates. Is there anything to be done?
In the next week or two, 10.14.6 should be released, the last version of Mojave, and the last macOS to run on cheesegrater Mac Pros. Where has it got us?
Three riddles to solve this weekend. They’re more fun than a couple of thousand turgid words about the innards of macOS.
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