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Category Archive: Technology

Temporary restrictions on posting comments

I’m afraid that once again this blog is receiving a torrent of hundreds of attempts to post comment […]

March 13, 2019 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

When a window closes as soon as it has opened

In Sierra but not Mojave, when the user opens an ancillary window, it appears for a moment, then vanishes. Is it a bug in the code, or in AppKit?

March 13, 2019 Macs, Technology

PDF without Adobe: 18 Seeing inside PDF more clearly

Looking at the source of a PDF file isn’t easy, as most of it is streams of binary data. Here’s an easier way, which also comes with a search feature.

March 13, 2019 Macs, Technology

Diagnosing diagnostics and Apple Hardware Test

What should you do when you try to restart in Diagnostics Mode and can’t? And how to check and restore a Recovery partition.

March 12, 2019 Macs, 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

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