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AppexIndexer

Updates to Apfelstrudel (Unicode), AppexIndexer (Appexes), Ulbow (logs) and Versatility (versions)

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Wrangle Unicode normalisation, discover all the app extensions in your Mac, browse the log with nanosecond times, and preserve documents versions when moving them.

June 30, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

An overview of app extensions and plugins in macOS Sequoia

Detailed listings of which appex and plugin types are managed by System Settings, PlugInKit, and beyond. Even the terms used aren’t consistent.

April 23, 2025 Macs, Technology

How PlugInKit enables app extensions

How PlugInKit gets information about all installed app extensions, nd how it informs the services that use those extensions. Why killing the LaunchServices database may not be a good idea.

April 16, 2025 Macs, Technology

AppexIndexer build 8 has sort and search features

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New version of app extension explorer offers 4 sort orders, adds support for UUIDs, and a ‘live’ search feature to find a UUID quickly and efficiently.

April 14, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

Last Week on My Mac: Discovering discovery

From speech synthesisers and Blu-ray encoders to wallpapers and widgets, appexes have proliferated far beyond the wildest dreams of the OpenDoc designers, but so little is known about they’re managed by macOS.

April 13, 2025 Macs, Technology

Discover appexes with AppexIndexer

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Explore the app extensions installed on your Mac, in a list of well over 400, including many in macOS, and those in 3rd party products.

April 10, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates
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