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Category Archive: Technology

Next Weeks on My Mac: Where to go with the log?

Looking forward to the new features in Consolation version 3. Please comment and make suggestions.

July 2, 2017 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed silent updates to Gatekeeper and MRT data

Apple has pushed out silent updates to Gatekeeper’s configuration data, bringing it to version 115, and to MRT […]

July 1, 2017 Macs, Technology

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to FileVault

How FileVault encryption failed, apparently damaging an SSD with less than 250 hours use. And what I did to fix it.

July 1, 2017 Macs, Technology

I can’t log in: what to do when you forget your password, or its doesn’t work

You suddenly can’t remember your password, or your Mac won’t accept what you think is your password. What do you do next?

June 30, 2017 Macs, Technology

Completing and using a Swift Scrapbook in Tinderbox

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The code scrapbook is finished, and has now produced its first set of articles. Five articles in around ten minutes seems pretty impressive to me.

June 29, 2017 General, Macs, Technology

Swift Snippets 5: Bundles, Process, Background activity, Shell commands

Calling shell commands, including with privileges, NSBackgroundActivity, XPC Activity, and writing shell commands in Swift.

June 28, 2017 Macs, Technology

Swift Snippets 4: Numbers, Dates, Unified log, Objective-C

Dates with (NS)Date and DateFormatter, writing messages to Sierra’s unified log, and working with old Objective-C interfaces.

June 28, 2017 Macs, Technology

Swift Snippets 3: Preference Files, Property Lists, JSON

Reading and writing preference files, storing data in property list files, and reading JSON data.

June 28, 2017 Macs, Technology

Swift Snippets 2: Interface, NSDocument, Files

Alerts, open and save file, text boxes, radio buttons, popup menus, steppers, read and write in NSDocuments, and much more.

June 28, 2017 Macs, Technology

Swift Snippets 1: Strings, Attributed Text, Arrays

Swift 3.1 code snippets for string manipulation, working with attributes in attributed text, and with arrays.

June 28, 2017 Macs, Technology

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