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Category Archive: Technology

Manage Login and Background items

How to control Login and Background items in System Settings, how to identify those you might not recognise, and how to use sfltool for advanced diagnostics and reset.

December 3, 2025 Macs, Technology

How to restart Spotlight, and why you might want to

Instead of logging out and back in, it’s possible to relaunch Spotlight from the Finder, as demonstrated here with the aid of the log. And it might be useful too.

December 2, 2025 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 336

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 336. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Interchange […]

December 1, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Textovert 1.1 can now convert PDF files to other formats

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Now additionally offers conversion of PDF files to plain text, RTF, HTML, Word doc and docx, Safari Web Archive and other formats.

December 1, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

Last Week on My Mac: Losing confidence

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What was the key to successfully learning to drive, ride a bike, or speak a foreign language? Confidence, and it’s every bit as important in computing, and in macOS.

November 30, 2025 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 336

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

November 29, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: PDF format

How PDF is different from PostScript, how to identify key parts of PDF source code, layout problems, verbosity, flattening and mojibake.

November 29, 2025 Macs, Technology

Explainer: Text formats

All about plain text, rich text, RTFD, .doc, .docx, HTML, webarchive, WordML, ODT and Pages formats, and how much space they take.

November 28, 2025 Macs, Technology

Podofyllin 1.5 beta can export PDF to RTF

Test version can now export PDF to Rich Text Format. For evaluation, please, to see if this would be worth adding to Textovert.

November 27, 2025 Macs, Technology

Inside the Unified Log 8: Find the error

Log entries mentioning errors are common and can mislead. Those marking the consequences of errors may not mention the word error. Turn detective to work out where the error really is with these tips.

November 26, 2025 Macs, Technology

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