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Category Archive: Technology

Fetch a translator: Apple says it has ‘fixed’ the App Store app

Sierra 10.12.5 claims that the App Store app has been enhanced. That’s not what I have seen.

May 18, 2017 Macs, Technology

The mysteries of sleep: what’s making my hard drive sleep?

Can your Mac control sleep of its display, disks and system independently of one another? Many can’t.

May 17, 2017 Macs, Technology

Known bugs in macOS Sierra 10.12.5: an incomplete summary

Currently they all look like old bugs, some going right back to Mavericks and earlier.

May 17, 2017 Macs, Technology

Important changes to Recovery mode

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There are now three different Recovery modes. This explains which to use, and provides a flowchart to help you work out how best to reinstall in them.

May 16, 2017 Macs, Technology

Reinstalling macOS changed with 10.12.4

Over a month after the release of macOS Sierra 10.12.4, Apple quietly let slip the news that it […]

May 16, 2017 Macs, Technology

How macOS manages tasks on cores: a draft

Trying to get a more coherent overview of the different paths to concurrent, asynchronous, and background task management in macOS. Draft for discussion.

May 16, 2017 Macs, Technology

More Scripting in Swift: Styling Attributed Text

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Structuring, parsing, and styling text is not difficult when you use Swift 3 as your scripting language.

May 16, 2017 Macs, Technology

macOS Sierra 10.12.5 update released (updated)

Apple has released macOS Sierra 10.12.5 update. Reported improvements and fixes include: fixes audio stutter on some USB […]

May 15, 2017 Macs, Technology

How macOS runs background activities: 3 When things go wrong

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When part of the mechanism which schedules and dispatches Time Machine backups fails, those backups become irregular. Here it is shown in a clear diagram.

May 15, 2017 Macs, Technology

How macOS runs background activities: 2 Time Machine backups

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Diagrams how a routine Time Machine backup is scheduled and dispatched using CTS and DAS.

May 14, 2017 Macs, Technology

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