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Category Archive: Technology

Tax chaos looms

Most governments promise to reform the tax system to reduce costs and increase compliance. So how would it help to switch business income to quarterly returns, instead of annual?

January 21, 2017 General, Macs, Technology

Power Management in detail: using pmset

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A command line tool with extensive abilities. It is not actually that hard to use.

January 20, 2017 Macs, Technology

Using hibernation to secure a Mac with FileVault

FileVault is most secure and robust when you shut your Mac down. But there are many times when you want full protection when only sleeping.

January 19, 2017 Macs, Technology

New Mac malware: Fruitfly, or OSX.Backdoor.Quimitchin

Malwarebyte Labs has just reported newly-detected malware which can affect most versions of OS X / macOS, and […]

January 18, 2017 General, Macs, Technology

Apple pushes silent security updates

Overnight, Apple has pushed out silent updates to El Capitan and Sierra security protection data. MRT Configuration Data […]

January 18, 2017 Macs, Technology

Les PDFs sont merveilleux: but why is Safari loading them in French?

It only happens when I enable Adobe’s PDF Viewer plug-in, but seems a mystery worthy of Hercule Poirot himself.

January 18, 2017 Macs, Technology

Lessons from Swift 3: UI, alerts, text boxes, radio buttons, popup menus, file save

Covers NSAlert, NSSavePanel, and more. Includes modal alerts, setting contents of text boxes and popup menus, File Save dialog.

January 18, 2017 Macs, Technology

Java 8u121 update now available with important security fixes

Oracle has just released Java version 8u121, which contains important security fixes, and is a strongly recommended update […]

January 17, 2017 General, Macs, Technology

Couldn’t stay awake any longer: Energy Saver ignored

Despite being set to stay awake, the other morning my iMac had decided to go to sleep. Why? Is there a ghost in the machine?

January 17, 2017 Macs, Technology

Lessons from Swift 2: Processes, running commands, predicates, command tools, logs, playgrounds

Covers Process, NSPredicate, running Swift from command line, Xcode playgrounds. Lots on running commands.

January 17, 2017 Macs, Technology

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