Over the last 2 months I have been monitoring used and free disk space in my backup storage, and internal SSD. Here are some observations, and a new version of DeltaFree to measure your own.
Category Archive: Technology
When Disk Utility wrote encryption passwords to the log in plain text, where a StarCraft battlecruiser was made operational, 3 huzzahs for a single click, and more vagaries of ten years of the Unified log.
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Pasted on […]
Devised at PARC in 1970, it was at the heart of the user interface for Apple’s Lisa and Mac. Although much changed in Mac OS X, then with Stage Manager and other additions to macOS, it has survived. Is it now being abandoned?
Compare log entries when clicking on an item in the Finder, once when it’s selected but not brought into focus, and again when it’s correctly brought into focus. This points to a cause as shown here,
Coming next week in macOS 27.2: the ability to add or remove apps from Local Network privacy. Also global exceptions explained.
Apple has just released its regular weekly update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5368 for all Macs, […]
Log entries are decorated with emoji, and structured using Unicode box characters. There’s also a shorthand for naming files and directories, rather than censoring their names.
This works around an infuriating bug in SwiftUI that prevents full selection of log entries. Essential when using in macOS 27 Golden Gate.
Thirteen new files, including images and PDF, are created. How long does it take Spotlight’s indexing process to notice, to import them to its indexes, and when is text recognised and extracted from images?
