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Category Archive: Technology

Working around a bug recently introduced into Mojave: When Signposts point the wrong way

At first I thought it was my mistake. Then it looked like a simple error in the interface. But this bug in Mojave’s signposts is more complex. Here’s a workaround.

August 16, 2018 Macs, Technology

XProtect: Missing presumed dead?

The last XProtect update was version 2099 pushed on 13 March 2018, when many of us were struggling through snow and ice instead of the current heat and drought. Is XProtect now as dead as the grass in my lawn?

August 15, 2018 Macs, Technology

Mojave’s privacy protection and command tools: a collision in which the user is the loser

Apple has shown a way ahead for full apps to access private data in Mojave, but has been curiously silent with respect to command tools. How will they cope?

August 14, 2018 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed its weekly update to Gatekeeper’s data

Apple has just pushed an update to the data used by Gatekeeper, bringing its version number to 151, […]

August 13, 2018 Macs, Technology

Blowhole, RouteMap, and a Signpost Kit

A new version of Blowhole, the second alpha of RouteMap, and a complete tutorial toolkit to help you get started using log Signposts from Sierra to Mojave.

August 13, 2018 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Where next with the log?

What do you want from a log browser? Which do you use for the unified log (Sierra and later), or have you given the log up as no longer useful?

August 12, 2018 Macs, Technology

The App Store by numbers, and Wikipedia wherever you want

How to get the better of the App Store, and how you can take reference material even where you can’t get a good internet connect – for free.

August 11, 2018 Macs, Technology

Booting the Mac: loading boot.efi and Secure Boot

The Mac has completed its self-test routines, and now prepares to load the EFI firmware or ‘boot loader’. Where it finds it, what it needs, and how Secure Boot changes this.

August 10, 2018 Macs, Technology

Signposts for performance: alpha release of RouteMap

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Do you want to measure performance or get other info from your app or script? Using Signposts is ideal, and here’s the first glimpse of a new tool to harvest them.

August 9, 2018 Macs, Technology

Before boot.efi: the Mac’s initial self-test routines

What happens in your Mac when you press the Power button? Before it loads the EFI firmware, it goes through self-testing, and initialising key chips.

August 8, 2018 Macs, Technology

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