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Last Week on My Mac: Console, the vital tool that Apple abandoned

Console is the epitome of Apple’s problem with tools and support for its users, and is exactly what it needs to fix.

June 14, 2020 Macs, Technology

How to get more detail in the log

There’s no shortage of entries, but are they the ones you need, and do they contain the information that’s important? How to change that.

June 11, 2020 Macs, Technology

What to do when a process is using excessive CPU

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Your Mac has slowed to a crawl, with spinning beachballs and a juddery interface. You open Activity Monitor and read this.

June 10, 2020 Macs, Technology

Ulbow version 1.3 fixes problems getting logs in Sierra

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Stops you from inadvertently asking for non-existent Signposts in Sierra, which could stop it from getting log extracts.

June 9, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Last Week on My Mac: 10.16 is all about tools and maturity

Without addressing shortcomings in tools and maturity of macOS, 10.16 has flawed foundations, and is likely to fall flat.

June 7, 2020 Macs, Technology

How to reveal ‘private’ messages in the log

Fed up with all those censored entries in the log? Here’s a simple way to turn privacy protection off and log uncensored again.

May 25, 2020 Macs, Technology

Ulbow version 1.2 is released, with extensive support for logarchives

Recommended for all users, with extensive support for creating logarchives from collections of log files, and their statistical analysis.

March 31, 2020 Macs, Technology

Spring Forward: how the log copes with summer time clock change

Strange behaviour when entering times, datestamps which suddenly leap forward – some of the changes seen when the clocks go forward.

March 31, 2020 Macs, Technology

Ulbow 1.2b2 and Consolation 3.9 fix a bug using styles

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Updates to address this styling bug.

March 16, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Want to access log files directly, or analyse logarchives? Try Ulbow 1.2b1

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Can turn folders of log files into a logarchive so they can be browsed using Ulbow, as well as providing statistics on them.

March 9, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

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