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Category Archive: Technology

High Sierra’s new improved Help system diagrammed

Key improvements in naming of Help books, use of WebCore to render them, and greatly improved performance.

April 30, 2018 Macs, Technology

Last Week on my Mac: Consistency and iCloud

Consistency is an overriding design principle for the human interface. However you use iCloud storage, it adopts different behaviours from those of the Finder. Apple needs to evolve the iCloud interface to improve it, and to empower the user.

April 29, 2018 Macs, Technology

Getting control over iCloud Drive with Cirrus 1.0b3

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New version gives control over whether files are stored locally, monitors individual files and folders, runs a test upload, and gives log access for diagnostics.

April 28, 2018 Macs, Technology

Pigment: A white less toxic, Chinese white

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It’s not Chinese, and for centuries was ignored, as lead white was preferred. It came into use during the 19th century, and is seen in paintings by Friedrich, Cézanne, van Gogh, Klimt, and Hodler.

April 27, 2018 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Trying to make sense of iCloud: Progress with Cirrus

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How to open an iCloud document, when macOS can’t open it until it has been downloaded: the dog really did eat my homework this time.

April 27, 2018 Macs, Technology

Problems with iCloud shared data: how to tackle them

What can you do when Notes, Contacts, Calendars or Reminders stop syncing properly via iCloud? Where to look?

April 26, 2018 Macs, Technology

APFS encryption, ghost guest users, and odd UUIDs

Has someone hacked into your encrypted drive already, or is this another security vulnerability in High Sierra?

April 25, 2018 Macs, Technology

macOS 10.13.4 Security Update 2018-001 and Safari 11.1 (updated)

Apple has just released macOS 10.13.4 Security Update 2018-001, which fixes two vulnerabilities in Crash Reporter and the […]

April 24, 2018 Macs, Technology

What’s that? Using magic on your Mac

Telling what a file is – whether plain text, Unicode UTF-8, 32-bit code, and so on – can be hard. Just use a little magic, free in the command tool ‘file’. Includes Swift code to access magic numbers.

April 24, 2018 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed a security update to MRT, the macOS malware removal tool

Apple has just pushed an update to the macOS malware removal tool MRT, which brings it to version […]

April 23, 2018 Macs, Technology

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