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Category Archive: Updates

Latest utility updates and Apple’s for macOS

Guarding against buggy security updates: a new version of SilentKnight

Why you should reconsider whether you let your Mac automatically download and install ‘silent’ updates, and what you can do instead.

November 4, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

SystHist now works fully with Catalina and Big Sur

New version can display contents of all system updates for Catalina and Big Sur’s boot volume group, at last.

November 3, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Apple has pushed an update to MRT

Apple has pushed an update today to its malware removal tool MRT, bringing it to version 1.69.3, dated […]

October 30, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Apple has pushed an update to XProtect

Apple has pushed an update today to the data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number to […]

October 29, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

SilentKnight version 1.11 now supports individual updates

New feature: an updater window which allows you to download and install individual named updates, rather than having to install all that are available.

October 21, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Precize version 1.11 can now help identify sparse files

Now shows the space taken on disk, which makes it easy to identify sparse files.

October 20, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Apple has pushed updates to XProtect and MRT

Apple has pushed two updates today, to the data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number to […]

October 19, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Mints now provides better volume info, and looks at task scheduling

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Adds a new log view of background task scheduling and dispatch, greatly improves volume info, and fixes a rare crash.

October 12, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Apple has released macOS Mojave 10.14.6 Supplemental Update

Apple has just released a set of new updates for macOS Mojave 10.14.6 to address earlier problems with […]

October 2, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Apple has pushed updates to XProtect and MRT

Apple has pushed two updates today, to the data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number to […]

October 1, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

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