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Monterey’s memory leak and how to avoid it

How this memory leak probably occurs, which apps it affects, and what you can do to avoid it completely.

November 15, 2021 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: It’s the tiddly bits

A major new version of macOS bringing few big changes, but lots of opportunity for improvements and fixes.

November 14, 2021 Macs, Technology

Memory leaks

What’s the difference between an app and kernel memory leak? How would you notice one, and how to investigate it, and (sometimes) work around the problem.

November 5, 2021 Macs, Technology

Taming the App Store: getting timely updates

How can you ensure the App Store offers you all the updates which it has available? Here’s a simple method which works around its limitations.

October 6, 2021 Macs, Technology

How long does Apple support macOS?

Unofficially, each major version of macOS gets a year’s full support, with bug and security fixes, then 2 years of security updates. Is that how it works?

September 22, 2021 Macs, Technology

What else changed in Big Sur 11.5.2 update?

Despite its lack of security release notes, the 11.5.2 update contains new versions of several important security executables, including spctl, sandboxd and syspolicyd.

August 18, 2021 Macs, Technology

What has changed in macOS 11.5.2?

The surprise update to Big Sur, bringing it to version 11.5.2, is the first that I can recall […]

August 11, 2021 Macs, Technology

Apple has just released Big Sur 11.5.2 update

Apple has just released the update to bring Big Sur to version 11.5.2. Once again, this is a […]

August 11, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

What has changed in macOS 11.5?

Apple’s detailed release notes on changes in macOS 11.5 are a bit thin on the ground, listing only […]

July 21, 2021 Macs, Technology

Volume names are still a Unicode mess

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Don’t use Unicode normalised Form C names for volumes in Disk Utility, as they cause havoc, and prevent Spotlight from indexing volumes.

July 1, 2021 Macs, Technology

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