If the kernel is the heart of OS X, launchd is its brain. Use it to run periodic tasks such as synchronising folders automatically.
Category Archive: Technology
All the useful key combinations, arranged by function rather than keys.
This year’s US Presidential Election and the UK’s referendum on the EU will determine the world’s future. But the latter is not politics, it is serious.
Do your settings in the Energy Saver pane differ from what actually happens? Learn how to use pmset to understand why, and diagnose old battery problems.
When someone asserts that something is scientific fact, they could unwittingly be lapsing into irony: it warns of imminent non-science.
When I drove down the drive I had seen on the satellite view, it opened out to a block of flats. The care home had vanished.
Two free tools to check how long your SSD, including those in Fusion Drives, is likely to last.
I may at last have found a way to reduce the frequency of freezing in OS X 10.11.4 and later.
New toys expected include Siri for OS X, and OS X 10.12. Those should really please users with Macs that keep freezing, and bricked iPad Pros.
If you wanted to mess someone’s Mac up, you could go into their system files and change things around when they were out at lunch.
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