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Category Archive: Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Apple Support and Demand

Apple Support has to be wonderful now because there’s hardly anywhere else to go to find out about our Macs and other Apple products.

April 22, 2018 General, Macs, Technology

iOS 11, or maybe 11.2.6, may change Photos’ handling of screenshots

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How the iOS Photos app may save your PNG screenshot images in JPEG format: one mystery solved, another opened.

April 21, 2018 Macs, Technology

32-bitCheck: version 1.1 scans in the background

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Now runs in the background – no more spinning beachballs! Also handles errors in folder paths better, and shows a ‘busy spinner’ when scanning.

April 21, 2018 Macs, Technology

Pigment: The Forgotten Yellow of the Masters

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Lead-tin yellow features in many paintings of the Old Masters, until about 1750. It was then replaced and forgotten until 1940. Examples in major masterpieces from Rembrandt, da Vinci, Vermeer, and others.

April 20, 2018 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Lost in iCloud Translation? When PNGs suddenly become JPEGs

When you take a screenshot in iOS, it is saved in PNG format. There is no option. So why do mine come across on iCloud Drive as a JPEG?

April 20, 2018 Macs, Technology

32-bitCheck: version 1.0 released with improved interface and Help book

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First full release: the only tool to check thoroughly for 32-bit apps and code bundles in whichever folders you want.

April 19, 2018 Macs, Technology

How to browse the log on an iOS device

If you’re familiar with the macOS log and have problems with an iOS device, you can easily access its log to help in diagnosis.

April 18, 2018 Macs, Technology

Is Apple about to drop QuickTime, DVD and iWork support, and Compressor?

Apple has started the process of naming and shaming those apps which still don’t run in 64-bit mode, […]

April 17, 2018 Macs, 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

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