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Last Week on My Mac: Lost Force Click

On my Magic Trackpad, Force Click vanished. As it had recently updated its firmware, it looked like that update had caused the problem, although that no longer makes sense. Does your Magic Trackpad have the same problem?

August 18, 2024 Macs, Technology

macOS updates are shrinking, but what happened to RSRs?

How large were Sonoma’s updates? How many were unscheduled patches? Why were there no RSRs? What does Sequoia hold in store?

August 14, 2024 Macs, Technology

OS X Server 2.2 in August 2012

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An extended tutorial-review of Mountain Lion Server, OS X Server 2.2, written in 2012-13, with copious screenshots.

August 13, 2024 Macs, Technology

Gatekeeper and notarization in Sequoia

How is it going to be harder to run apps that haven’t been notarized in Sequoia, and does it bring any benefit in return for the inconvenience?

August 10, 2024 Macs, Technology

Apple has released Sonoma 14.6.1 and 13.6.9 patch updates

Apple has just released patch updates to bring macOS Sonoma to version 14.6.1, and Ventura to 13.6.9. There’s […]

August 7, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

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 141, […]

August 6, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

Last Week on My Mac: Two betas and one giant leap

When we were updating to macOS 14.6, Apple released the first beta of 15.1 to developers. Does this mean it’s skipping straight past 15.0 to bring you its new AI tools?

August 4, 2024 Macs, Technology

A brief history of Directory Services

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A replacement for the NetInfo service in NeXTSTEP and early Mac OS X, Open Directory is an LDAPv3 service delivered as Directory Services, and essential to permissions, authentication and more.

August 3, 2024 Macs, Technology

System fonts: the delights of San Francisco

How can you use San Francisco, the system font for macOS and Apple’s other OSes? An example traced through from macOS internals to PDF and HTML.

August 2, 2024 Macs, Technology

What has changed in macOS Sonoma 14.6

As I forecast only yesterday, Apple has today released macOS Sonoma version 14.6. According to its previous calendar, […]

July 29, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

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