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Managing privacy-protected devices

Control access from apps to devices like cameras and microphones. How to check the reason for their request, and whether they have entitlement to do so. How to remove apps from the privacy lists, and more.

March 3, 2025 Macs, Technology

How Sonoma 14.1 could stop your camera working

Do you have a third-party camera using its own plug-in? Sonoma 14.1 could disable it. Here’s what to do to keep your camera working, perhaps even better than before.

October 27, 2023 Macs, Technology

Hard reality: 10 Different projections

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Brunelleschi’s perspective projection was just a start. With optical instruments and later photography, painters exploited the visual effects of unusual projections.

June 22, 2023 General, Life, Painting

FaceTime’s new effect and modes

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Portrait mode, which affects video, and two new microphone modes are interesting additions to Monterey for some Macs. Here are full details.

November 24, 2021 Macs, Technology

Mojave 10.14.6 can still panic MacBook Pro 15-inch 2018 and 2019 models

Some MacBook Pro users may still suffer sporadic kernel panics because of firmware bugs in any release of […]

September 18, 2019 Macs, Technology

Privacy protection can pay off when it’s allowed to

For once, Mojave’s privacy protection worked in favour of the user, in stopping Zoom’s old app from regaining access to your camera and microphone.

July 19, 2019 Macs, Technology

Zoom videoconferencing could expose your Mac

Zoom is a popular videoconferencing system, used apparently by about 750,000 companies and several million individuals around the […]

July 9, 2019 Macs, Technology

OverSight: watching out for those watching you

Some malware is downright sinister, even though the damage it does may not be particularly serious. For OS […]

October 7, 2016 Macs, Technology

Q&A: 3D video support

What support is there for my 3D video camera?

October 23, 2015 Macs, Technology

So how well does the FLIR One™ IR camera work?

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How the camera works, how such a low resolution IR camera can produce such good-looking images, and more.

October 17, 2015 General, Macs, Painting, Technology

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