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Category Archive: Technology

Looking in the log: predicates, filters, regex, and find

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Different search and filter tools have different purposes – as demonstrated by exploring the log using Consolation 3. Regex at work!

August 3, 2017 Macs, Technology

How the new tools in Consolation 3 help to explore Sierra’s startup

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How to breeze through the startup process log using new tools in Consolation 3.

August 2, 2017 Macs, Technology

Consolation 3.0b5: building a much better log browser

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Filters are here: Consolation can now apply simple text filters, or regular expressions (regex) to refine your log browsing.

August 1, 2017 Macs, Technology

Consolation 3.0b4: building a much better log browser

Make your log browsing more colourful, and as a result far easier to read.

July 31, 2017 Macs, Technology

Sierra 10.12.6 doesn’t fix the Time Machine bug, but changes it

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Automatic backups will still become irregular or fail altogether, making Sierra 10.12.6 unsuitable for servers and systems requiring sustained operation.

July 30, 2017 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Display of dense text information

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Let Consolation 3 colour your log extracts: it makes a huge difference in reading and understanding them.

July 30, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Technology

How to deter your customers

Two recent retail experiences remind me of my mis-spent youth, when I learned the hard way what it takes to sell to customers.

July 29, 2017 General, Life, Technology

Apple pushes yet another security update

Apple has today pushed out another security update, this time to its Malware Removal Tool MRT, bringing it […]

July 28, 2017 Macs, Technology

Oracle releases surprise Java update

Oracle has released another Java update, only a week after it released 8u141, to fix problems in that […]

July 28, 2017 Macs, Technology

Scripting in Swift: Any perils

A crashing app points out the problems of using functions that return values of ‘Any’ type. Here’s one solution.

July 28, 2017 Macs, Technology

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