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Category Archive: Technology

Recover files from a sick Mac

How to use Share Disk in Recovery on an Apple silicon Mac, how fast it can be. Target Disk Mode on Intel Macs, and some less likely alternatives.

March 10, 2026 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 350

I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 350. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Novel in […]

March 9, 2026 General, Macs, Technology

How macOS 26 Tahoe updates: 3 Catalogues and preparing to download

How Software Update settings obtains a list of available updates, and the variants that should contain. How mobile asset catalogues are checked, and preparations made to download the update.

March 9, 2026 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: New and super

The MacBook Neo deserves to succeed, but could do with changes to backing up. It should also revitalise indie development. Will it bring the return of AppleWorks? Also considers the shortage of information about M5 CPU cores.

March 8, 2026 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 350

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Novel in […]

March 7, 2026 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: Mac firmware version numbering

How to read and interpret firmware version numbers from the first Intel Macs to the latest Apple silicon models.

March 7, 2026 Macs, Technology

Behind the scenes: SilentKnight and updates

How SilentKnight came about, and how it knows – most of the time – which version of XProtect and other security data your Mac should be using.

March 6, 2026 Macs, Technology

Has Apple suffered a premature release?

Has Apple inadvertently released the full installer for macOS Sequoia 15.7.5? It’s only available as a full installer, not an update, but it’s real.

March 5, 2026 Macs, Technology

Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS

Overnight, Apple released an update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5332. As usual, it doesn’t release information […]

March 5, 2026 Macs, Technology, Updates

What can you do when Software Update can’t?

What to do when you know there’s an update available, but Software Update pretends that it can’t find it. With details of undocumented options for softwareupdate command and more.

March 5, 2026 Macs, Technology

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