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Category Archive: Technology

What to do when a secure connection fails

You go to connect to a website at an HTTPS address. When it can’t establish the secure connection you expect, your browser warns you. What do you do next?

February 26, 2018 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Trusting management

As I was revising and revamping my Keynote presentation, my free disk space was falling in from of my eyes. Each time I saved my work, macOS swallowed another gigabyte of free space.

February 25, 2018 Macs, Technology

Apple has updated Gatekeeper configuration data

Apple has today pushed an update to Gatekeeper configuration data, which should have been silently installed on your […]

February 24, 2018 Macs, Technology

Revisionist can now remove selected versions

Simply select those versions you want to remove, and click the Delete button. You can’t remove the latest version, and there is no Undo, though.

February 24, 2018 Macs, Technology

Busting myths about macOS versions and versioning

Does Time Machine manage the versions database? Doesn’t it contain lots of sensitive and private documents? How can I open a confidential PDF without it getting saved as a version?

February 23, 2018 Macs, Technology

A bug in signature-checking weakens most anti-malware tools

One of the basic checks which all malware protection should make is whether apps and other code have […]

February 22, 2018 Macs, Technology

Pigment: A tale of two yellows, Indian and Chrome

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Indian Yellow was thought to have been extracted from cow urine, but has been found in few paintings. Chrome Yellow was the mainstay of the Impressionists and the nineteenth century.

February 22, 2018 General, Painting, Technology

Make accessible copies of versions with Revisionist 1.0b2

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Can now duplicate all the versions of a file into a normal folder; works with RTFD and other bundles; new tabular view and detailed info about versions.

February 22, 2018 Macs, Technology

Avast and AVG anti-virus are returning false positives

Overnight, many users of Avast and AVG anti-virus protection have discovered that apparently normal apps are being reported […]

February 22, 2018 Macs, Technology

xattred now shows data and xattr sizes

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Adds display of the total size of xattrs, total data fork size, and their sum in its window.

February 21, 2018 Macs, Technology, xattr

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