Autumn has come, and it’s time to suffer Apple’s annual upgrade game-playing. Will you be tricked into installing Sequoia, or allowed voluntary informed consent?
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Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Traced in […]
Introduced in 1997, Apple System Profiler gave detailed information about a Mac’s hardware and software. Later came Gestalt, a dictionary of useful info about a Mac.
APFS or HFS+? Which can Time Machine back up to? What about hard disks? Which format for use on PCs? And which are supported by Disk Utility now?
Which passwords, passkeys, wi-fi passwords, and so on are supported by Sequoia’s new Passwords app? Where has Keychain Access gone, and do you still need it?
Does XProtect confuse you in Sequoia? Do you know why it could show as version 0, 5273 or 5274? Here’s a guide to what I think is going on.
Apple has just released an update to XProtect for Sequoia only, bringing it to version 5275. As usual, […]
Essential details of each of the three types of XProtect data files, how they’re updated, how to update them, and more. Covers new XProtect in macOS 15.x.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 274. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Exam […]
Latest macOS updates bring revised firmware for most models. Here are details of which are no longer being updated, and what’s likely in the future.
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