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All About This Mac: where to find that UUID, MAC address, etc.

How can you tell whether your Mac supports Continuity, whether you bought an app from the App Store, and diagnose extension problems?

January 26, 2017 Macs, Technology

Using the logs in Sierra: some practical tips

How can you look for error messages preceding an app crashing, or when your Mac panicked and automatically restarted?

October 1, 2016 Macs, Technology

Welcome to macOS Sierra’s new Console: it’s buried in Terminal

So how do you check your logs to see if backups have been made correctly? Forget Console – you’ve got to use Terminal.

September 29, 2016 Macs, Technology

Troubleshooting Sierra: an overview of tools and techniques

After a near-panic and interminable spin, it proved impossible to get useful diagnostic information. Here are some tools and techniques which should still be useful.

September 24, 2016 Macs, Technology

Sierra’s Console: promising but incomplete

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Even a performing basic check can be an act of supreme intellectual challenge, or is now flatly impossible. Early beta quality.

September 23, 2016 Macs, Technology

What to do when your Mac starts up all wrong

Something odd has happened to your Mac. Last time you used it, it worked fine, but doesn’t any more.

March 2, 2016 Macs, Technology

Running tools within sysdiagnose individually

How to run individual components from sysdiagnose.

February 8, 2016 Macs, Technology

More useful information gleaned from sysdiagnose

Looking in greater detail at what you can get from running sysdiagnose.

February 8, 2016 Macs, Technology

The ultimate diagnostic tool: sysdiagnose

When you have tried everything else, this shell command will throw the book at your problem, running all the diagnostics it can.

February 6, 2016 Macs, Technology

The scanners that changed medicine

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How a mathematician and an electrical engineer brought a pioneering new technology to transform medicine.

September 13, 2015 General, Life, Technology

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