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Category Archive: Technology

USB 3 devices can cause problems with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi

Radio-frequency interference from USB 3 peripherals can cause problems with Bluetooth and 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi.

June 16, 2017 Macs, Technology

Something odd you can’t fix? Sierra re-introduces repairing permissions

We stopped repairing permissions, because of SIP. Now Apple recommends it for a wide range of problems – only this repairs them on your Home folder.

June 15, 2017 Macs, Technology

Adobe updates Flash Player to 26.0.0.126

Adobe has updated its Flash Player to version 26.0.0.126, which is now available from here. This new version […]

June 15, 2017 Macs, Technology

Silent Sierra night: security settings files in macOS Sierra (version 2)

In amongst the tens or hundreds of thousands of files which together make macOS Sierra work, there are […]

June 14, 2017 Macs, Technology

Beyond Scripting in Swift: Of characters and closures

There are lots of different ways to modify a string, but some would turn out to be very inefficient. A gentle wander through CharacterView and a mapping closure.

June 14, 2017 Macs, Technology

Dystextia: a platform for exploring Unicode encoding problems, obfuscating text, and spoofing

Want to hide text from electronic searching and matching? Or just explore some of Unicode’s encoding issues? Here’s a useful tool.

June 13, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Technology

The return of the volume

In recent years, most Mac users have stopped partitioning drives into volumes. In High Sierra, you will probably want to use volumes again. Lots.

June 12, 2017 Macs, Technology

Last Week Off My Mac: A1 and AI

Apple keeps its promise with High Sierra and new Macs, but is less helpful in the log, and courts danger in AI.

June 11, 2017 Macs, Technology

Why we can’t keep stringing along with Unicode

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Unicode is wonderful, a foundation for culture, but flawed. With characters that are visually indistinguishable having different encodings, it is rotting our filenames, URLs, and strings.

June 10, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Technology

The Time Machine Mechanic (T2M2) version 1.0 released

Now places its report in a scrolling text view, has extensive Help book, and more. The only tool for checking that Time Machine backups are being made properly.

June 9, 2017 Macs, Technology

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