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Category Archive: Technology

How privacy protection is enforced through the Attribution Chain

How command tools gain access to protected data, through their Attribution Chain. Diagnosing their problems, and fixing them.

October 2, 2018 Macs, Technology

Getting word frequencies by lexical class: Nalaprop gets more useful

Now generates list of words used and their frequencies, grouped according to lexical class. Want to discover all the proper nouns or names in a document, for example?

October 1, 2018 General, Language, Macs, Technology

New version of Taccy extends its coverage of info about apps and privacy

Mainly for Mojave users having problems with apps and their access to protected data.

October 1, 2018 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Successful release

I hope, if you have upgraded to Mojave, that all went well and you’re now happy that you […]

September 30, 2018 Macs, Technology

Mojave’s Dictionary: where Light and Dark Modes collide

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Apple’s choice of headline feature in Mojave, most of the time it works very well. But in some cases, its edges are rough indeed: Dictionary, and emoji.

September 29, 2018 Macs, Technology

macOS 10.14 Mojave doesn’t bring a fresh round of EFI firmware updates

I have now had a chance to analyse the EFI firmware updates included in the macOS 10.14 Mojave […]

September 29, 2018 Macs, Technology

Silent Mojave night: security settings files in macOS Mojave

In amongst the hundreds of thousands of files which together make macOS Mojave work, there are security and […]

September 28, 2018 Macs, Technology

Apple has at last pushed an update to XProtect’s security data

Apple has at last, after more than six months, pushed an update to the configuration data for its […]

September 28, 2018 Macs, Technology

What to do when you can’t get an app the right privacy settings in Mojave

What do you do when an app should connect to control another app or access protected data, but you never see any consent dialog? Or when you incorrectly refuse consent?

September 28, 2018 Macs, Technology

Mojave’s Linguistic Support: a promising start

Includes five major languages in depth: English, French, Spanish, German, and Russian. Here’s an app to explore its power, and a 20-language test file.

September 27, 2018 General, Language, Macs, Technology

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