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Category Archive: Technology

Back to My Mac dies with Mojave

Apple has announced that its Back to My Mac feature will not be supported in macOS 10.14 Mojave, […]

August 21, 2018 Macs, Technology

Updates all round to Blowhole, RouteMap, and the Signpost Kit

At last: RouteMap performs some analysis on your Signposts, and with the other tools can be used to estimate latency, and look at macOS system performance too.

August 21, 2018 Macs, Technology

Booting the Mac: EFI ‘firmware’

What boot.efi does to prepare to load and run the kernel: building the hardware device tree, handling startup key commands, and more.

August 21, 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 152, […]

August 20, 2018 Macs, Technology

Taking macOS to the end of time: nanoseconds count

Picking the right time system for the purpose is critical when you want to analyse very short periods. Sometimes it takes time to discover how to juggle with time.

August 20, 2018 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Quantum mechanics and Mojave

Doesn’t writing so much to the unified log result in performance penalties? So how can Apple expect us to use the log and Signposts to measure performance?

August 19, 2018 Macs, Technology

Redacting a PDF using Adobe Acrobat

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How good is Acrobat Pro DC at redacting, checking, and cleaning sensitive documents for publication or distribution? Here are its features worked through.

August 18, 2018 Macs, Technology

Redact and obscure: how to release or publish without leaks

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Passing documents containing sensitive or protected information without leaking that requires redaction – a minefield unless you know what you’re doing.

August 17, 2018 Macs, Technology

Blowhole 7 works around an Xcode bug, and is included in an updated Signpost Kit

Blowhole 7 now writes proper Signposts in Mojave, as well as Pseudo-Signposts in Sierra and High Sierra.

August 16, 2018 Macs, 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

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