Digging into macOS Sierra and its logs to examine how Recent Items works. Useful insights into Launch Services, and potential historical info about documents opened.
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It’s a System Prefs problem. No, a preferences file problem. No, it’s something else, but Apple once again won’t tell us how Recent Items works, or doesn’t.
Adobe has updated its Flash Player to version 26.0.0.151, which is now available from here. This update fixes […]
Apple has today pushed another silent update to the security data files for macOS Sierra and OS X […]
Shutdown cause codes, wake reasons, ACPI, and sleep states – diagnosing problems from hardware events.
How much more difficult is it to write your own code to handle user preferences, rather than letting UserDefaults handle them?
Developers should consider letting users export and import suites of settings, to determine an app’s persona, or flavours of working environment.
Adds the ability to export and import libraries of custom predicates, styles, and filters to property list files, independently of preferences – a leap forward.
Which String.contains() variant should you use, and how can you give access to regex searching? More answers coded in Swift 3.1.
Stop wasting time wading through hundreds of hits: refine your text searches using regex, as supported by many Mac apps.
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