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Category Archive: Technology

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Allow me a brief gloat: The Eclectic Light Company blog has just reached its first serious milestone, that […]

February 19, 2017 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Last Week on my Mac: The value of log access

Why was my Mac still preparing a backup 20 minutes after it should have been completed? And what is a ‘deep event scan’?

February 19, 2017 Macs, Technology

Apple pushes silent update to XProtect from XAgent and MacDownloader, but forgets Flash

Apple pushed out a silent update to the XProtect security data files yesterday, 18 February 2017, which should […]

February 19, 2017 Macs, Technology

Beyond Scripting in Swift: turning Consolation into a full-blown app

I was dreading its conversion from an ordinary Cocoa app into an architecture which supported multiple windows. Would Xcode co-operate?

February 18, 2017 Macs, Technology

Consolation version 2: multiple windows on your log

The first beta of the free log browser is now available. It lets you open multiple windows on your logs.

February 17, 2017 Macs, Technology

Consolation: a log browser for Sierra, version 1.0

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First full release, with several significant enhancements, and full documentation. Free as always.

February 17, 2017 Macs, Technology

Diagnosing and treating Time Machine problems in Terminal

Two major tools are available to help you deal with problems. Here’s how to use them to best effect.

February 16, 2017 Macs, Technology

Parallel hypertext: Storyspace metamorphosed 2

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Putting the entire content of Book 1 into a Storyspace/Tinderbox document, to view the Latin and English in parallel.

February 15, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Painting, Technology

Adobe updates Flash Player

Adobe has updated its Flash Player to version 24.0.0.221, available from here. Although there are unspecified bug fixes, […]

February 15, 2017 Macs, Technology

Why have my Time Machine backups stopped or become irregular?

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Is Time Machine becoming erratic? A simple diagnostic process can establish what the problem is, and how to deal with it.

February 14, 2017 Macs, Technology

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