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Category Archive: Technology

Firmware passwords: a mixed blessing

Coupled with FileVault’s whole disk encryption, this can stop others from accessing your data. But there are disadvantages too.

July 1, 2016 Macs, Technology

Prepare for repair: safeguarding your data

How not to lose data, and how to protect private and sensitive data, when your Mac goes off for repair.

June 30, 2016 Macs, Technology

Prepare for repair: taking or sending a Mac in

Don’t let a repairer see a dirty Mac: they may refuse to complete the repair under warranty. Give it a clean first.

June 29, 2016 Macs, Technology

Lost time: what to do when your Apple watch plays dead

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You tap your  watch, and the face remains black. Is it dead? Here’s what to do next.

June 28, 2016 Macs, Technology

A painter’s changing streets: cycles and cars

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Manet’s remarkably early painting of a cyclist dates from 1871, but the Impressionists appear to have ignored the new kings of the road.

June 27, 2016 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Script Debugger version 6

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Simply the best development environment, which now has superb support for AppleScript Objective-C. At half the price too.

June 27, 2016 Macs, Technology

Rewind, undo, and buyer’s remorse

Expressions of regret and a desire to change your vote are very unusual immediately after an election. Why Bregret?

June 26, 2016 General, Life, Technology

A personal apology

We should have taken heed of the Boaty McBoatface incident. Does the UK really want to leave Europe?

June 25, 2016 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Why Wide Colour? A guide to its gains

New Wide Colour gamuts should make all colour rendering more faithful. Benefits are greatest to those for whom faithful colour is most important.

June 24, 2016 General, Macs, Painting, Technology

Truth: the worst casualty of political campaigns

The UK’s referendum has been transformed by its campaigns into a propagandum in which truth has been lost. What is the solution?

June 23, 2016 General, Language, Life, Technology

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