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Do Ventura’s signature checks work?

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Are additional Gatekeeper checks in Ventura effective, and worth the effort? Surely malware can bypass them easily.

March 7, 2023 Macs, Technology

Log Literacy: Navigation

All about time and landmarks you can look for in the log, after booting, on shutdown, when waking from sleep, and using activities to locate mouse clicks.

February 3, 2023 Macs, Technology

What to do when your Mac has a kernel panic

Why you should keep a copy of the Panic Log. How to check that your Mac isn’t the cause. And above all, don’t panic.

November 15, 2022 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Apple harvest is coming

Is the next Apple Event in October, for the release of Ventura, and maybe more Apple silicon Macs? What’s going to be missing from macOS 13, and what happens to Catalina now?

September 11, 2022 Macs, Technology

How to report macOS crashes to Apple

How can you ensure that Apple is aware when something crashes in macOS? Setting this in your preferences, and making a separate Feedback report.

September 10, 2022 Macs, Technology

Don’t run that app where it landed: how translocation can cause crashes

You unarchive a freshly downloaded app and try to give it a test run. It immediately crashes. Here’s one common reason, and how to solve it very simply.

September 6, 2022 Macs, Technology

Why did that app crash?

What can you do to investigate when an app suddenly vanishes in an ‘unexpected quit’? How to read the log and the crash log.

July 21, 2022 Macs, Technology

Whodunnit? The housekeeper that killed an app

One second, the app was fine. Then it just vanished. There was nothing wrong with that app: it was murdered. Join this game of Cluedo/Clue in macOS.

June 22, 2022 Macs, Technology

Explainer: kernel panics and crashes

Apps may crash, but kernels panic. Don’t accept your Mac just panics often. It should never panic at all, and more than one panic a year needs to be properly investigated and reported.

February 12, 2022 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: On-board diagnostics

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Handling errors means more than a couple of jargon phrases and a magic number. Designing for error requires the user to be at its centre.

January 16, 2022 Macs, Technology

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