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Category Archive: Technology

Managing kernel extensions

It’s time to review old kernel extensions, and uninstall those no longer needed. Here’s how to do that, using uninstallers or manually.

December 3, 2024 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 284

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 284. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Unsolicited […]

December 2, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

Inside M4 chips: Controlling frequency

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How macOS controls CPU P core cluster frequency according to the cluster total active residency, in synthetic in-core tests, compression and when running virtual machines.

December 2, 2024 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Whether the weather

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We were sat with the Weather app reviewing prospects for the weekend ahead, when we were warned of a significant threat to life or property requiring us to take action immediately.

December 1, 2024 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 284

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

November 30, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

A brief history of Mac memory and its management

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A problem from the first 128K Mac, virtual memory was available from 1987 but only with A/UX. It wasn’t really sorted out until Mac OS X, and now it’s all Unified anyway.

November 30, 2024 Macs, Technology

Using and troubleshooting Spotlight in Sequoia: summary

How Spotlight works, Core and global Spotlight, importing failure, exclusions from indexing, re-indexing, excessive re-indexing, failure to find, iCloud Drive and network shares.

November 29, 2024 Macs, Technology

How to browse your Mac’s log from months ago

macOS logs may only last a few days, or even hours, into the past. Here’s a quick and simple way of browsing the log from weeks, months or even years ago.

November 28, 2024 Macs, Technology

Inside M4 chips: Matrix processing and Power Modes

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A matrix multiplication test appears to be run on the AMX matrix co-processor, and behaves differently from in-core tests. And what Power modes really do.

November 27, 2024 Macs, Technology

Why can’t Spotlight find files in Library folders?

Try searching for something you know is in a file in ~/Library/Preference and you’re unlikely to get any success. This explains how, and why you can’t alter that.

November 26, 2024 Macs, Technology

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