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Category Archive: Technology

Re-installing macOS: clean or what?

Should you install, re-install, or clean (re-)install macOS? Why, how to, and what they entail.

March 11, 2019 Macs, Technology

PDF without Adobe: 17 Unredacting Manafort’s documents and recovering PDF versions

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How to reveal incorrectly redacted content in a PDF document, and discover previous versions of that document inside its file.

March 11, 2019 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: The importance of document repair

Have you lost any precious files lately? Old movies of your kids when they were young, perhaps. Wouldn’t it be good to be able to recover them?

March 10, 2019 Macs, Technology

On a Clear Day: How to identify that mountain view

What’s that peak over there? Ulrich Deuschle’s amazing website makes you a custom panorama showing almost anywhere on earth.

March 9, 2019 General, Life, Painting, Technology

PDF without Adobe: 16 Reading PDF source

How you can tell whether a PDF file is likely to contain orphaned content and other problems, as available now in Podofyllin.

March 9, 2019 Macs, Technology

PDF without Adobe: 15 macOS can sanitize your PDFs

When I opened a PDF to inspect its source, the file was quite different to that seen in BBEdit. Was my file system broken?

March 8, 2019 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Viewing two or more pages at once in a PDF document

Would you like to have two or more windows open on the same document, so you can check notes or references while reading? Now you can, for PDFs.

March 7, 2019 General, Language, Macs, Technology

PDF without Adobe: 14 PDF is inherently not secure

PDF is an invaluable, universal document format which is fundamentally flawed, allowing it to leak unintended content and worse. Here’s how this happens.

March 6, 2019 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Clipping files: copying through the Finder

All about textClipping and pictClipping files: what they are, and how to access the data within them.

March 5, 2019 Macs, Technology

Mojave Finder Accent and Highlight colours shouldn’t create a third colour

Does Mojave blend the colours you set in Accents and Highlights to create a third colour, or is the appearance of a third colour just a bug?

March 4, 2019 Macs, Technology

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