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Category Archive: Technology

Apple has pushed an update to XProtect

Apple has pushed an update to the ‘Yara’ data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number to […]

April 19, 2019 Macs, Technology

Printing without tears in Dark Mode (and exporting to PDF)

How to cater for Dark Mode when printing an AppKit view, and how to add a command to export a document in PDF format. Swift 5.0.

April 19, 2019 Macs, Technology

Apple Intel and ARM systems: performance comparisons

How have Intel Macs and the SoCs in Apple’s iPads and iPhones improved in performance since 2014? Which has the cost-performance advantage?

April 19, 2019 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed an update to Gatekeeper’s data

Apple has pushed an update to the data used by Gatekeeper, bringing its version number to 165, dated […]

April 18, 2019 Macs, Technology

Mojave’s Legacy Software is doubly wrong

How reliably does Legacy Software detect 64-bit compatible upgrades? For some apps, it doesn’t notice at all, it appears, and continues to give wrong information.

April 18, 2019 Macs, Technology

Podofyllin 1.0b16 now prints each of its views

Prints from any one of its six views, two as PDF, and four different text views, each of which is generated in Light Mode to save the black toner.

April 17, 2019 Macs, Technology

Macs may need ARM processors to survive

Why change the processors used in Macs, when all that will do is cause loads of compatibility problems? Some thoughts on how important this could be.

April 17, 2019 Macs, Technology

Take notes: Tinderbox 8 is the bee’s knees

One of the few apps that I still use frequently, and have used since version 1.0 in Mac OS X 10.0, Tinderbox has just been upgraded to version 8. Here’s why you should try it out.

April 16, 2019 General, Macs, Technology

Update to fix printing and PDF issues in DelightEd, and a new product page

Printing now functions in Light Mode properly, and there are three different ways to generate better PDFs from Rich Text documents.

April 15, 2019 Macs, Technology

Sandboxing makes quarantine flags almost meaningless

How the quarantine flag for apps and that for docs opened in sandboxed apps differ, and why there are now so many quarantine flags to trip us up.

April 15, 2019 Macs, Technology

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