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iOS 11.2.5 may harm the Watch-iPhone relationship

I haven’t written much about my first-generation Apple Watch, because like all good watches, it has just got […]

January 26, 2018 General, Macs, Technology

iCloud Drive can strip (meta)data from your documents

Don’t use iCloud Drive to copy docs between Sierra and High Sierra, as they may well lose metadata in the process. Bug or feature?

January 6, 2018 Macs, Technology

Safari offline reader is rapidly becoming functionless

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Offline reading is an important feature for many Safari users, particularly on iOS devices and laptop models. So why doesn’t it work?

December 28, 2017 General, Macs, Technology

There’s something wrong with that file: could it be a xattr issue?

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There’s something wrong with that file, which seems to keep crashing an app. When you can’t put your finger on what’s wrong, it’s likely to be a xattr problem.

December 13, 2017 Macs, Technology, xattr

Bug-hunting in Consolation and Woodpile: success in obscurity

New updates to these apps fix crashing bugs when using styled log display, or converting log excerpts to CSV (Consolation).

December 4, 2017 Macs, Technology

High Sierra’s security update can block file sharing

If you are running macOS High Sierra 10.13.1 and have just applied the Security Update (2017-001) to fix […]

November 30, 2017 Macs, Technology

Does Woodpile crash on you when trying to start? This should fix it

If you have been trying to open Woodpile, but it has crashed each time, this update should allow it to run properly.

November 29, 2017 Macs, Technology

More fun scripting in Swift: working around an Xcode 9 bug

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Has Xcode been warning you that your Interface Builder window class is unknown, and creating a generic Window instead? Here’s the simple fix.

November 25, 2017 Macs, Technology

Starting up in High Sierra 10.13.1: an initial log exploration

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Changes include frequent timechecks by timed, harder access to info about keychains, a couple of possible AppleScript bugs, and APFS snapshots.

November 23, 2017 Macs, Technology

Another step forward in browsing the log with Woodpile 0.8a1

Rising to the challenge of the unified log: how to work around lack of information, and a surfeit of information. More function and power.

November 11, 2017 Macs, Technology

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