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Big Sur

Does Big Sur need a bit more Help?

macOS Help system was last revamped in High Sierra, and has worked well. Until Big Sur has problems finding Help books, and shows some in French. How Help should work.

December 3, 2020 Macs, Technology

Use AppleArchive for compressing and decompressing files with Cormorant 1.0

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First full release of this free utility designed to help move apps and more using AirDrop, as it doesn’t put decompressed contents into quarantine.

December 2, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

SilentKnight 1.15 and LockRattler 4.30 do more on Big Sur and M1 Macs

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For all Macs running Big Sur, these now report whether its new System volume is correctly sealed, and about Platform Security for M1 Macs.

December 1, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Is Big Sur’s system volume sealed?

How can you tell whether your Mac’s shiny new Sealed System Volume is properly sealed? You could easily be misled into thinking it isn’t.

November 30, 2020 Macs, Technology

Startup modes for M1 Macs

M1 Macs don’t use that warren of startup key combinations, but a logical structure of choices, mostly when starting up in Recovery Mode. Here are the full details.

November 28, 2020 Macs, Technology

Inside M1 Macs: Time and logs

Time has changed in M1 Macs, with the Mach clock ticking every 41.67 nanoseconds. This affects all log entries too, and works differently in Rosetta.

November 27, 2020 Macs, Technology

Introducing your new M1 Mac

First update it to 11.0.1. Here are details of the problems which can arise and how to solve them, from unenrolling from betas to using Configurator to Revive an M1 Mac.

November 26, 2020 Macs, Technology

How big is Xcode?

The answer could be anything from 15 to 32 GB. Maybe the Finder’s just having a wild guess? Numbers courtesy of Big Sur and APFS.

November 24, 2020 Macs, Technology

Compress and decompress files using AppleArchive

A new feature in Big Sur, which provides ready access to fast, efficient compression and decompression. Here’s first look and test app.

November 24, 2020 Macs, Technology

How Big Sur checks Universal Apps

If you were to strip unwanted code from a Universal App, would it still pass Big Sur’s strict security checks?

November 23, 2020 Macs, Technology

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