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Category Archive: Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 303

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

April 12, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

A brief history of Mac native file systems

A brief start with MFS for 400 KB floppies, followed by HFS intended for the first hard disks, upgraded to HFS+ in 1988, and followed in 2017 by APFS for all the OSes.

April 12, 2025 Macs, Technology

Is your Mac’s firmware still supported?

A round-up of firmware updates across 15.4, 14.7.5 and 13.7.5, prospects for future macOS and firmware updates, and problems updating to 15.4.

April 11, 2025 Macs, Technology

Discover appexes with AppexIndexer

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Explore the app extensions installed on your Mac, in a list of well over 400, including many in macOS, and those in 3rd party products.

April 10, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

How disk images and VMs are more efficient

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How read-write disk images and those used in Apple silicon virtual machines use sparse file format to save space on disk.

April 9, 2025 Macs, Technology

Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS

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

April 8, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

Rise of the Appex: What are App Extensions?

With as many as 500 or more appexes in your Mac, these have become widely used and important. What they are, where they are, and how to control them.

April 8, 2025 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 302

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 302. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Shortened […]

April 7, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

How robust are APFS clone and sparse files?

How do clone files and sparse files cope with being backed up and restored? Can they save space in iCloud Drive? Some of these answers may surprise.

April 7, 2025 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Sequoia Spring

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One of the largest updates to macOS, with the most ever vulnerabilities fixed, Sequoia 15.4 also brings a lot of new components, particularly Private Frameworks.

April 6, 2025 Macs, Technology

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