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‘Erase Mac’ doesn’t?

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What does the terse phrase Erase Mac mean? If you think that it means completely erase your Mac, […]

December 30, 2019 Macs, Technology

Last Year on My Mac: Explanations required

What’s the point of impressive Finder illusions when users can’t rely on your explanation of how to erase a disk? Apple’s problems of 2019 considered.

December 29, 2019 Macs, Technology

Prepare your Mac for service

What to do, when you can, before taking or sending your Mac in for service or repair. What about FileVault? And Activation Lock?

December 28, 2019 Macs, Technology

Network security can block updates, notifications, and more

Making your network more secure using software firewalls and SSL inspection can block macOS from functioning properly.

December 24, 2019 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Flaws in re-installing Catalina

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Follow Apple’s instructions for a clean re-install, and you’ll probably hit an error, and be left floundering in Recovery mode with an unbootable system.

December 22, 2019 Macs, Technology

Catalina 10.15.2 has changed Gatekeeper’s dialogs to confuse notarization status

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What’s changed in 10.15.2? One of Gatekeeper’s most important dialogs, which now suggests that notarized apps haven’t been notarized at all.

December 15, 2019 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Dictation, resources, and change

Innovation and advance are impossible without change, and implementing change successfully is crucial to Apple. Here are two examples of it not going right.

December 15, 2019 Macs, Technology

What happened to XProtect? Has it been forked?

If you follow macOS security updates, by now you’re probably completely confused over XProtect. Although it has been […]

December 13, 2019 Macs, Technology

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 […]

December 12, 2019 Macs, Technology, Updates

XProtect version 2109 for macOS Catalina 10.15.2 only

Bundled, or perhaps buried, within the macOS Catalina 10.15.2 update released yesterday, 10 December, is an update to […]

December 11, 2019 Macs, Technology, Updates

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