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Last Week on My Mac: Just taking a Quick Look

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QuickLook keeps a cache of document thumbnails and previews which can be a security and privacy risk. Here’s why, and a new tool to help you maintain your privacy.

June 24, 2018 Macs, Technology

What does the MRT 1.35 update remove? (Updated)

Apple doesn’t tell you what malware its removal tool, MRT, can remove. Here’s a list of changes in the latest version 1.35.

June 22, 2018 Macs, Technology

In the Dark Mode: a tortuous journey without a map

Apple tells us not to use hard-coded colours like .black, but sets the default for scrolling text views to .black, causing text to be rendered in black on dark grey when in Dark Mode. Here’s a simple and universal fix.

June 20, 2018 General, Macs, Technology

How to stop Dark Mode becoming Chequer Mode

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Global Dark Mode poses problems with styled text which cannot be solved well without giving the user control over the mode used by that app.

June 20, 2018 Macs, Technology

Apple has just pushed updates to MRT and Gatekeeper’s data

Apple has just pushed updates to the data used by Gatekeeper, and that used by the Malware Removal […]

June 19, 2018 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Is Dark Mode overdesigned?

It’s not just inversion of display colours, but has colour tinting from the Desktop, accents which change the colour of controls, and all icons need to be redesigned. Just to be cool?

June 17, 2018 Macs, Technology

LaTeX and MathML equations come to iWork, as well as iBooks Author

Welcome and useful additions, particularly to Pages, where these additions fit in well with styles. But some surprising shortcomings too.

June 16, 2018 Macs, Technology

Mail Drop, iCloud, and large files

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Need to send large files to someone? Don’t have time to let iCloud get round to it when it’s ready? Try Mail Drop – but not in the Mail app.

June 15, 2018 Macs, Technology

Can’t install the Mojave beta on an external drive? Try this

Many developers are reporting that they have been unsuccessful in getting the initial beta-release of macOS 10.14 Mojave […]

June 12, 2018 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Reinventing the Mac

Fire up your eGPUs, engage Dark Mode, and open Xcode: our Macs are once again going to be at the centre of invention and reinvention.

June 10, 2018 Macs, Technology

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