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Category Archive: Technology

Parental Controls: Safeguarding the vulnerable

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How to set a managed account up for a child, or another vulnerable user, using Parental Controls.

April 20, 2017 Macs, Technology

Oracle releases Java update

Oracle has released Java version 8u131, available from here. Among its improvements are limitations on MD5 signing of […]

April 19, 2017 Macs, Technology

A Spring Clean on Mac Contents Pages

Spring is here – time to do some cleaning of the blog to help you access current articles more easily.

April 19, 2017 General, Macs, Technology

Mac help and articles on older topics

Topical listing of articles about older versions of OS X up to 10.10, and other less current material about Macs and related topics.

April 19, 2017 Macs, Technology

Mac Troubleshooting Summary

A starting point for diagnosing and fixing your Mac problems, with links to key articles here.

April 18, 2017 Macs, Technology

Conventions and Standards for Mac Articles

Information for anyone reading articles about Macs here, and an introduction to dealing with their problems.

April 17, 2017 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: No normal user

Why does almost every Mac user use their system in an admin role? Shouldn’t macOS encourage us to be ‘normal’ users?

April 16, 2017 Macs, Technology

Was that a crash, freeze, panic, or spinning beachball? A diagnostic guide

Can you tell the difference? What is the significance of each, and do you know what to do about them? An introductory guide.

April 15, 2017 Macs, Technology

More fun scripting with Swift and Xcode: Encoding conversion without tears

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Factoring the code better to separate reading and writing the underlying data, and converting that for display.

April 14, 2017 Macs, Technology

Sierra’s log is now locked away from normal users

In an undocumented change, 10.12.4 prevents any access to reading Sierra’s log when in normal user mode – it requires admin mode.

April 14, 2017 Macs, Technology

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