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Apple has released a firmware update for its Magic Keyboards

Apple has released a firmware update for its Bluetooth Magic Keyboards, although you can’t download it yourself, and […]

January 11, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

Apple has just released an update to XProtect

Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all versions of macOS from El Capitan or so, […]

January 8, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

Last Year on My Mac: 2 Apple silicon comes of age

The M1 cycle took 16 months from basic to Ultra; that shortened to 12 months for the M2. As the first Studio M2 Ultras were being prepared for shipping, the M3 cycle started.

December 31, 2023 Macs, Technology

When macOS won’t work with the App Store

Running a macOS VM on Apple silicon has many advantages: it lets you run older macOS on newer models, is more secure, and convenient, except it can’t work with App Store apps.

December 26, 2023 Macs, Technology

The Three XProtects of Christmas

What you need to know about the 3 XProtects: classic, Remediator and BehaviourService, and full details of what we know about XPR 122.

December 23, 2023 Macs, Technology

Why macOS 14.2 & 14.2.1 VMs lose shared folders, and how to work around it

If you use macOS VMs on an Apple silicon Mac, folders shared with the host may vanish in 14.2 and later. Here’s why, which are affected, and how to work around the problem.

December 22, 2023 Macs, Technology

The Finder doesn’t leak memory, but fills it with cached thumbnails

It turns out that the Finder is just retaining all those image thumbnails in its memory for 2-3 days after you last browsed them. Is this what we want?

December 20, 2023 Macs, Technology

Apple has just released updates to XProtect and XProtect Remediator

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

December 19, 2023 Macs, Technology, Updates

Apple has updated Sonoma to 14.2.1, and for Safari in Monterey and Ventura

Apple has just released an update to macOS Sonoma, bringing it to version 14.2.1. On Intel Macs, the […]

December 19, 2023 Macs, Technology, Updates

What is changing in Mac firmware?

Six years ago, iBridge came for Macs with T2 chips, then 3 years ago Apple silicon models got iBoot instead of EFI. Now EFI support is dwindling fast.

December 18, 2023 Macs, Technology

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