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Category Archive: Technology

Watch your background: Scheduling XProtect Remediator scans

How does XProtect Remediator scan your Mac once a day? What has gone wrong when it doesn’t appear to work? Explained from its property lists to its three different types of scan.

February 5, 2025 Macs, Technology

macOS Sequoia 15.3 has improved Thunderbolt 5 performance

Sequoia 15.3 results in significant improvements in read-write speeds of SSDs connection through Thunderbolt 5 docks and hubs. Here are the details and implications for choosing SSDs.

February 4, 2025 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 293

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 293. Here are my solutions to them. 1: 42, […]

February 3, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

How to change lid behaviour on MacBook Air and Pro

Apple silicon laptops start up (if not asleep) when you open their lid or connect power. Now you can change that behaviour by setting their NVRAM.

February 3, 2025 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: What happened with XProtect?

If it’s running Sequoia, a Mac most likely installed update to Sequoia silently. However, it could still download the Software Update version, as explained here.

February 2, 2025 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 293

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: 42, 3.14159, […]

February 1, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

A brief history of the Finder

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From its clean and spartan origins in Classic MacOS, the Finder has changed it metaphor, and now works more like a browser. Over 25 years of history.

February 1, 2025 Macs, Technology

Friday magic: how to cheat on E cores and get free performance

How to more than double the speed of a thread run on the E cores, by running another 11 threads at the same time.

January 31, 2025 Macs, Technology

Thunderbolt 5 SSDs are promising, but fill their cache quicker

Early testing of TB5 SSDs show they do deliver much faster speeds that even USB4 models, although not as high as some claim. But their cache size may limit streaming large amounts of data.

January 30, 2025 Macs, Technology

Apple has released an update to XProtect for all supported macOS

Apple has overnight released an update to XProtect for all supported versions of macOS, bringing it to version […]

January 30, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

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