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Hidden controls for system settings in macOS

Some system-wide settings are hidden away in the preferences of bundled apps. Here’s a list of where to look for those and others which aren’t easy to find.

March 15, 2022 Macs, Technology

How to deal with a site with a broken certificate

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What to do when your browser complains that a website you want to visit has a problem with its certificate security.

October 30, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: caching

They contain recently browsed web pages, ARM code translated from Intel executables, security data, font information, and much more. And they can cause problems.

October 9, 2021 Macs, Technology

Brolly 1.1 now does its own testing of secure connections

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Now checks which versions of TLS a server supports, and gives details of its full headers with caching disabled.

October 8, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Brolly: a utility to help understand failed secure connections

A convenient utility to check secure connections under ATS using the nscurl command tool. For El Capitan to Monterey.

October 5, 2021 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Web woes worsen

It should have been so easy: a quick change of Root certificate. So why all the chaos, and most of all why you mustn’t compromise your security as a result.

October 3, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Safari 12.0 bug in macOS Mojave: smearing in image previews

A cosmetic bug ‘smearing’ images which download slowly, by repeating the last row of the image down to its foot.

October 22, 2018 Macs, Technology

Putting a browser window in your app

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Adding a WebKit browser window is straightforward so long as you ignore what Apple tells you.

May 12, 2018 Macs, Technology

Java and macOS: what you should know

Java, JavaScript, whichever – do you need them, whose version should you install, and how do you look after them?

October 20, 2017 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Display of dense text information

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Let Consolation 3 colour your log extracts: it makes a huge difference in reading and understanding them.

July 30, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Technology

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