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Category Archive: Technology

Time Machine problems in macOS Sierra

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Some users are having problems getting Time Machine to work in Sierra. Here are some suggestions to get that first backup completed.

November 23, 2016 Macs, Technology

Xcode Swift playgrounds 1: freezing and failing

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A frustrating first day trying to get Xcode’s Swift playgrounds to display simple dialogs and alerts.

November 22, 2016 Macs, Technology

Scriptarian: Swift scripting for macOS?

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Can this app really offer a “modern alternative to AppleScript”? Probably not yet, but it is young, and still an excellent Swift playground.

November 21, 2016 Macs, Technology

Last Week on my Mac: Ethel & Ernest and change

The best response to change is to see how you can exploit it. Let’s get ahead of the field, for once.

November 20, 2016 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Resources to help the non-novice learn and use Swift on macOS

An extensive listing of books, courses, example code libraries, coding environments, and more to help you get going in Swift 3.

November 19, 2016 Macs, Technology

Apple silently updates XProtect and MRT security protection

Today, Apple has again silently updated two sets of configuration data for the security protection built into macOS […]

November 18, 2016 Macs, Technology

Goodbye AppleScript

I’m heartbroken that AppleScript is going, and grieving at the departure of Sal Soghoian, but I’m looking forward to getting to grips with the scripting tools of the future.

November 18, 2016 Macs, Technology

A Console replacement for examining past logs in Sierra: LogLogger 5b (updated)

This update includes documentation, performs some predicate operations properly, and saves the shell command to log excerpt files.

November 17, 2016 Macs, Technology

Bugs in macOS Sierra Finder: window maximise doesn’t

Maximise a List view window in Finder, and it should expand to accommodate the contents. Only sometimes it doesn’t.

November 16, 2016 Macs, Technology

Porting from WordPress to Storyspace, 6: glossary and index

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I almost forgot the end matter: it’s time to add a glossary, and an index. But would built-in Find suffice?

November 16, 2016 General, Language, Macs, Painting, Technology

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