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Category Archive: Technology

How High Sierra has changed Help

macOS 10.13.4 brought a major overhaul to the Help system, which greatly improves performance and usability. Here are some of its secrets.

April 17, 2018 Macs, Technology

Telling which apps are 32-bit: 32-bitCheck does it better

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Checking for 32-bit apps in System Information is not the best way: here’s a free tool to make it easier and more comprehensive.

April 16, 2018 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Apple’s calendar

A close call for Apple this week, as it only just met its own deadline to deliver a 64-bit update to Compressor. For High Sierra only, though. Where does this leave us?

April 15, 2018 Macs, Technology

Comparing files: FileMerge, opendiff, and BBEdit

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How would you compare two text files to see what differences are between them? It’s still a common task, for which FileMerge and BBEdit can be excellent solutions.

April 14, 2018 Macs, Technology

How a New MacBook Pro borked an older iMac’s Bluetooth

Once a new MacBook Pro was updated to 10.13.4, it started to hammer Continuity connections to the iMac (10.12.6), which has AirPort turned off. This blew Bluetooth apart. Log extracts and more info.

April 13, 2018 Macs, Technology

Pigment: Blackest Black

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It’s not a colour at all, say some, while the Impressionists wanted to banish it from the palette. But throughout the history of painting, the blackest black has remained vital.

April 13, 2018 General, Life, Painting, Technology

A Swift 4 ‘droplet’ scripting prototype, Dropsy

Want a script app that takes dropped files/folders, does something to them, and saves them? Here’s a simple prototype project which does exactly that. Free to use.

April 13, 2018 Macs, Technology

High Sierra has changed Help, and broken HelpHelp

Somewhere between High Sierra 10.13 and 10.13.4, Apple has made major changes to the Help system. Unfortunately, these […]

April 12, 2018 Macs, Technology

Diagnosing iCloud problems using brctl, sync budgets and throttles

How much help does macOS provide for the diagnosis of iCloud problems? What does iCloud ‘throttle’, and what are its ‘budgets’?

April 12, 2018 Macs, Technology

Don’t lose versions: DeepTools preserve them wherever your docs go

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Simple tools to preserve versions in documents, whether copied to an external drive, NAS, cloud storage including iCloud and Dropbox, even sent by email.

April 11, 2018 Macs, Technology

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