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Category Archive: Technology

Are macOS updates getting larger?

Since Apple introduced the SSV in Big Sur, macOS updates have been huge, haven’t they? Checking the numbers gives a different answer.

May 20, 2023 Macs, Technology

Updates to Mints and Precize

Mints 1.14 fixes a crashing bug and improves xattr handling; Precize 1.14 improves xattr handling.

May 19, 2023 Macs, Technology, Updates

What has changed in macOS Ventura 13.4?

The update to macOS Ventura 13.4 is relatively small, and brings several improvements and fixes, including the following […]

May 18, 2023 Macs, Technology, Updates

Apple has released updates to Ventura 13.4, Monterey 12.6.6 and Big Sur 11.7.7

Apple has just released the update to bring macOS 13 Ventura to version 13.4 (build 22F66), and security […]

May 18, 2023 Macs, Technology, Updates

Twitter auto-posts have stopped: how to keep in touch

Those of you who rely on Twitter to keep you in touch with new articles posted in this […]

May 18, 2023 General, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology, Updates

Inspect and control extended attributes with xattred 1.4

New version of this GUI utility for inspecting and editing extended attributes, for High Sierra and later.

May 18, 2023 Macs, Technology, Updates, xattr

When your Mac can’t get to the login window

What to do when your Mac panics during booting, and enters a boot loop, or when it simply fails to get to the login window.

May 17, 2023 Macs, Technology

Volume names, mount points and normalisation

How can you have two volumes in the same APFS container with identical names? How does macOS handle the conflicts?

May 16, 2023 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 203

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 203. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Unwelcome […]

May 15, 2023 General, Macs, Technology

Identifying the state of your Mac: is it dead or alive?

Is that Mac completely dead due to a severe failure, or could it just be in DFU mode? They aren’t easy to distinguish on most Macs.

May 15, 2023 Macs, Technology

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