Are your backups made every hour? Are you sure? Sierra might have become smarter as to how often it backs up.
AppleScript
Explaining how the script in SparkleCheck works, and why I did it that way – which is not what the documentation might suggest.
Simply the best development environment, which now has superb support for AppleScript Objective-C. At half the price too.
Take a FileMaker Pro database, add a little AppleScript, and you can transfer your data into Storyspace or Tinderbox.
Being a hybrid, naming disks and volumes can get complex in OS X. This article demystifies them.
Playgrounds help you interactively develop code, and code generators write the code for you. Here’s a selection of the best.
Which of the GUI programming environments can produce a standalone app with a simple alert interface?
A free open source droplet for robust encryption and decryption, and explanation of the AppleScript code.
Which of the friendly IDEs supports the creation of apps with ‘proper’ interfaces?
A personal selection of some excellent and fascinating programming environments for OS X.
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