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Category Archive: Technology

Hitting the limits of APFS is both easy and confusing

What’s the minimum size of a container, or a volume, in APFS? The answer can range from 1.05 MB up to 167.8 MB, it appears.

August 12, 2019 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Human frailty

Over a million people learned that very personal details of their had been leaking from an unsecured server. What should we learn?

August 11, 2019 General, Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 7

This weekend’s entertainment for the mind: three puzzles to work out before the answers appear on Monday.

August 10, 2019 General, Macs, Technology

The ‘hardened runtime’ explained

Newly-built apps supplied by developers outside the App Store need now to be notarized. This in turn requires hardening, but what is that?

August 10, 2019 Macs, Technology

Firewalls, phoning home and whitelists

Mac users are increasingly using software firewalls to prevent apps from making outgoing connections. Here are some tips, and links to help you build whitelists.

August 9, 2019 Macs, Technology

Taccy version 1.2 now deciphers new privacy settings for Catalina

Do you want to see exactly what protected resources an app can try to access? Or check that your own app is correctly configured?

August 8, 2019 Macs, Technology

Colour fonts are upon us – in Mojave at least

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Emoji are no longer the only characters which come in full colour: OpenType-SVG fonts are now available in full colour too, and simple to use in macOS 10.14 and iOS 12.

August 8, 2019 General, Macs, Technology

Tools updated to fix security errors when opening documents

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Keep control over documents with quarantine flags to avoid bizarre security errors, using new versions of Pratique and Sandstrip.

August 7, 2019 Macs, Technology

Living with Desktop & Documents in iCloud

How to prevent folders from being synced with iCloud Drive, and what happens when you turn Desktop & Documents off could surprise.

August 7, 2019 Macs, Technology

Work in Progress: van Eycks’ Ghent Altarpiece

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One of the most important works of art in Europe, it was started by Hubert van Eyck, but completed by his younger brother Jan. Here’s its story.

August 6, 2019 General, Life, Painting, Technology

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