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Category Archive: Technology

Unintended consequences of SIP

El Capitan’s no-go areas make many important extensions unusable now. Apple must step in and enhance OS X to compensate.

February 5, 2016 Macs, Technology

Cock-ups, car ferries, and carrots: why we continue to get it wrong

Don’t believe that the problem is with self-regulation. It’s all about incentives, not regulation or penalties.

February 5, 2016 General, Life, Technology

TextSoap, App Store departure, and the update void

What happens when a product leaves the App Store, and is then updated? Its users enter the update void.

February 4, 2016 Macs, Technology

Storyspace 3: exploding poetry, and progress bars

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Tutorial showing how to turn long text passages into hypertext, add progress bars, and summary tables.

February 3, 2016 General, Language, Macs, Technology

BT and the largest UK Internet failure?

With “hundreds of thousands” of customers left without Internet connections for several hours, BT’s massive outage is too unimportant for its own News site.

February 3, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

The surrogate, virtual, and intangible, and their worth

Alphabet (formerly Google) now has the largest market capitalisation of any company in the world. That’s got to be news, hasn’t it?

February 2, 2016 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Events, handlers, and focus: how OS X apps work

Why it takes two clicks or taps to dismiss a dialog which is not the front window in OS X, and why that is correct.

February 1, 2016 Macs, Technology

Is brevity the soul of the abrupt, rude, and offensive?

Is Twitter’s 140 character limit the case of so much rudeness and offensive behaviour? Ask Richard Dawkins.

January 31, 2016 General, Language, Life, Macs, Technology

RIP The Land Rover (Defender)

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Production ends after 67 years. But how is the Mac doing after just 32 years?

January 30, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Losing their Sparkle: vulnerabilities in updaters

In-app update systems can be vulnerable to attack, if they do not use secure connections throughout.

January 30, 2016 Macs, Technology

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