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Category Archive: Technology

Introducing Rosettavert: first beta-release of a text encoding conversion tool

Do you want to convert files using non-Unicode text to modern format? Or between the 144 different encodings supported by iconv? Here’s a tool to make that easy.

April 13, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Kernel panics, and how to know when they occur

From 10.8 onwards, you will not see the classic grey display, but your Mac will spontaneously restart or shut down. Here are the details, and what to do next.

April 13, 2017 Macs, Technology

More fun scripting with Swift and Xcode: huge popups, and strings too smart

Progress with Rosettavert to convert text encoding, including popup menus with 144 entries. But stumbling still on an issue of string encoding.

April 12, 2017 Macs, Technology

Where is that app? – a brief index to bundled tools in Sierra

A listing of the locations of all those apps and utilities which you can never seem to find when you want them. Also covers command tools.

April 12, 2017 Macs, Technology

Adobe updates Flash Player to 25.0.0.148

Adobe has just released an update to bring its Flash Player to version 25.0.0.148, which is available from […]

April 11, 2017 Macs, Technology

More fun scripting with Swift and Xcode: opening docs and converting text

Scripting a friendly front-end for the iconv tool to convert text between 144 different types of encoding. Also how to open as well as save documents.

April 11, 2017 Macs, Technology

How to normalise strings, and a new command tool to help

How can you get the Unicode normalised form from within an app, or when you’re writing your own tools and scripts? unorml may be just the job.

April 10, 2017 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Summer’s coming, mostly

Apple spills some of its beans to a select group of the press, and we start to explore the new features expected in macOS 10.13.

April 9, 2017 Macs, Technology

How to make your own APFS volume

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Some detailed guidance to help you make a test volume in Apple’s new APFS format, in either case-insensitive or -sensitive variant.

April 8, 2017 Macs, Technology

APFS and macOS 10.13: many apps and tools will need to be revised

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Case-insensitive APFS is not at chaotic as the case-sensitive variant. But there are still plenty of problems which developers and users need to prepare for.

April 7, 2017 Macs, Technology

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