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Category Archive: Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Looking back from the future

Two watersheds that could occur in macOS 15: that it only supports Macs with Apple chips including an Arm processor, and that it opens access to older versions of macOS on Apple silicon.

June 2, 2024 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 258

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

June 1, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

PDF on Macs: the rise and fall of Preview

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PDF was introduced by Adobe in 1993, when its viewer Acrobat became popular, and PDFs were created from PostScript using Distiller. Then came Preview from NeXT to Mac OS X.

June 1, 2024 Macs, Technology

Skint version 1.06 has a Dock menu command and is ready for macOS 15

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Adds a Dock menu command to run its checks without having to bring the app to the front, and should be compatible with macOS 15.

May 31, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

SilentKnight version 2.8 improves checks and is ready for macOS 15

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Extends checks on XProtect Remediator scans to cover the previous 36 hours, and is ready for use with macOS 15 when it arrives.

May 30, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

Apple’s New Year is coming: macOS 15, 14, 13 and 12

When Apple opens WWDC on 10 June, it will release the first beta of macOS 15 to developers. By September, support for Monterey will be withdrawn. Now is the time to start planning your upgrades.

May 29, 2024 Macs, Technology

Apple has just released updates to XProtect and XProtect Remediator

Apple has just released updates to XProtect Remediator security software (Catalina or later), bringing it to version 135, […]

May 28, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

Will your encrypted data be safe in future?

How will quantum cryptography and the ease with which it should break current methods of encryption, affect the security of data on my Mac?

May 28, 2024 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 257

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 257. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Candela, […]

May 27, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

App Store apps can be translocated

It has often been assumed that App Store apps don’t undergo app translocation. That isn’t true: here’s an example of one that gets stuck in eternal translocation because it comes with an unwanted gift.

May 27, 2024 Macs, Technology

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