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Moving a blog to Tinderbox: Troubleshooting Macs

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Pulling together articles here on Macs, and reshaping their content to create a user reference.

April 27, 2017 Macs, Technology

My Bluetooth keyboard doesn’t work properly

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What should you do if your Bluetooth keyboard isn’t working properly? Is it something you can fix, or a bug in macOS?

April 24, 2017 Macs, Technology

Mac help and articles on older topics

Topical listing of articles about older versions of OS X up to 10.10, and other less current material about Macs and related topics.

April 19, 2017 Macs, Technology

Mac Troubleshooting Summary

A starting point for diagnosing and fixing your Mac problems, with links to key articles here.

April 18, 2017 Macs, Technology

Adding Timing Features to an App: Tinderbox and Storyspace

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A detailed tutorial showing how you can time events, such as moving from one note to the next, using free and simple tools.

March 10, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Painting, Technology

Waking your Mac from sleep: log highlights

A deep dive into the log to examine what happens when waking from system sleep. And where you can read a cache of old internet connections…

February 27, 2017 Macs, Technology

Last Week on my Mac: The value of log access

Why was my Mac still preparing a backup 20 minutes after it should have been completed? And what is a ‘deep event scan’?

February 19, 2017 Macs, Technology

Diagnosing and treating Time Machine problems in Terminal

Two major tools are available to help you deal with problems. Here’s how to use them to best effect.

February 16, 2017 Macs, Technology

Why have my Time Machine backups stopped or become irregular?

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Is Time Machine becoming erratic? A simple diagnostic process can establish what the problem is, and how to deal with it.

February 14, 2017 Macs, Technology

Consolation 1.0b5: a tool for browsing your logs

Browsing existing log entries in macOS Sierra is now much easier and more powerful.

February 9, 2017 Macs, Technology

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