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How to fix a Secure Note (or anything else) which won’t display in Dark Mode

You open a Secure Note or other text, only to see its content seems to have vanished when viewed in Dark Mode. Here’s how to fix it.

December 10, 2018 Macs, Technology

What has happened to the App Store in 10.14.2?

Has Apple changed App Store behaviour in 10.14.2? Does it now leave updates in the cloud, or is it just broken?

December 7, 2018 Macs, Technology

Versions in iCloud are still a mess, made worse by Handoff

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Until these bugs are fixed, versions in iCloud simply can’t be trusted. And mixing them with Handoff becomes even more confusing.

November 9, 2018 Macs, Technology

Is Mojave’s privacy protection still vulnerable in 10.14.1?

Which of the three vulnerabilities in privacy protection has been fixed in 10.14.1? Is it good protection now?

November 8, 2018 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

Last Week on My Mac: iCloud queues

Shared documents in iCloud have patchy version histories with duplication. They are also inefficient, leading to download of many identical files. And they can take forever to sync.

October 21, 2018 Macs, Technology

Safari 12.0 can’t open a local Home page

In Mojave, Safari 12.0 throws an error when first trying to display a local Home page. It then throws another error when it can’t load its error page.

October 18, 2018 Macs, Technology

Don’t believe System Information’s Legacy Software

Mojave’s new feature to show ‘Legacy Software’ is far from complete, and thoroughly misleading.

October 13, 2018 Macs, Technology

Mojave glitches in SystHist and T2M2

If you’ve upgraded to Mojave, there are a couple of odd things you may have noticed in SystHist and T2M2. Help is at hand.

October 13, 2018 Macs, Technology

How to use the unified log to see what’s going wrong

It’s actually even easier to browse the unified log and discover what is going wrong with a reproducible problem. Here’s how.

October 12, 2018 Macs, Technology

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