The differences between bundles and packages, the differences between app and framework bundles. What you can find inside them, and where to look.
Category Archive: Technology
Read-write and VM disk images are created and maintained differently, but they can both be APFS sparse files. Explanation of their creation and maintenance.
Detailed listings of which appex and plugin types are managed by System Settings, PlugInKit, and beyond. Even the terms used aren’t consistent.
Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all supported versions of macOS, bringing it to version […]
Opening Pages can take several seconds, and other apps can hang around for 30 seconds before they’re ready to use. Is it XProtect, online certificate checks, or what?
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 304. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Glance […]
In a VM hosted on an M4, upgrading 14.7.5 to 15.4.1 took an 8.7 GB download and worked. From 15.1 to 15.4.1 took over 15 GB and failed with a kernel panic.
Intel Macs tell you why they last shut down, in the ‘shutdown cause code’ written to the log by their System Management Controller. What do Apple silicon Macs do?
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Glance at […]
From early code pages based on language-specific variants of Extended ASCII, through 2-byte support in WorldScript II, to Unicode and the annual emoji update.
The Eclectic Light Company 