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Ulbow 1.5 and Consolation 3.11 improve preference handling

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No longer do you need to fiddle around pre-installing preference files, and each app can now reset its preferences to the defaul

February 3, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Big Sur 11.1: bug in log show command affecting Ulbow and Consolation

Use the log show command, Ulbow or Consolation to browse your M1 Mac booting, and they can fail to show tens of thousands of log entries. How to work around this bug in 11.1.

February 1, 2021 Macs, Technology

Inside M1 Macs: Time and logs

Time has changed in M1 Macs, with the Mach clock ticking every 41.67 nanoseconds. This affects all log entries too, and works differently in Rosetta.

November 27, 2020 Macs, Technology

Using blowhole to write to the log from scripts and apps, with a new Universal binary

How you can write entries in the unified log which are informative, easily retrieved, and extremely simple.

August 31, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Consolation version 3.10 is now a Universal App

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Fixes a minor bug, and is a Universal App which runs natively on Intel and Apple Silicon Mac from Sierra to Big Sur beta 3.

August 3, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Ulbow version 1.4 is now a Universal App

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Fixes a minor bug and now runs native on all Macs from Sierra to Big Sur beta 3 – including Apple Silicon.

August 2, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Finding your way around the log using Ulbow

All about periods of interest, landmarks, filters and search tools – everything you need to discover what went wrong in your Mac’s log.

June 30, 2020 Macs, Technology

Controlling what’s written to the unified log

You do have control over what is written to the unified log, although it’s not so easy to use. Here’s how.

June 26, 2020 Macs, Technology

Why did that app crash? Getting to the bottom of the log with Ulbow

An app crashes or quits unexpectedly. How can you work out what went wrong with it? An exploration using my free log browser.

June 19, 2020 Macs, Technology

What caused that kernel panic? How to use the log in diagnosis

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Step through how to work out when, how and why a kernel panic occurred in the unified log, using Ulbow.

June 17, 2020 Macs, Technology

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