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Last Week on My Mac: A quiet word about help

Writing good documentation often takes longer than coding and testing. Is it a good investment of time when documentation seems so little used? Is there a better way?

October 23, 2022 Macs, Technology

The transition from Preferences to Settings

Ventura’s switch to using Settings is going to be messy in apps, but System Settings will pose serious problems for macOS support material.

October 8, 2022 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Will Disk Utility ever work properly?

Apple could have chosen to make APFS open source or to document it fully, to help third parties develop maintenance tools. It chose not to, but Disk Utility still doesn’t work as it should.

May 22, 2022 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: The slim hope of recovery

Monterey changes the way that Recovery works on M1 Macs, making them more like Intel Macs by using a paired Recovery volume. But that could spell trouble.

May 15, 2022 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Do we have custom access?

Have you found Time Machine docs helpful in solving problems? Do you know what “custom access” means in the Permissions section of Get Info?

February 20, 2022 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: It’s the tiddly bits

A major new version of macOS bringing few big changes, but lots of opportunity for improvements and fixes.

November 14, 2021 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Trust Apple

Apple hasn’t trusted us with the knowledge of what’s in macOS 11.5.2 update, but expects us to trust it not to abuse its checks on CSAM.

August 15, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Where’s the accelerator?

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Three recent WWDC sessions extolling Apple’s “extensive reference material” and Xcode can’t find anything on these rich and extensive libraries.

August 8, 2021 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: The elephant at WWDC

Every developer should watch the 5 videos about DocC from WWDC. But it’s really a plaintive cry for help. Until Apple squares up and addresses the problem, it can only grow worse.

June 13, 2021 Macs, Technology

Mints has a new page all to itself

A new support page contains supplementary info for Mints and its log extracts and tools.

May 7, 2021 Macs, Technology

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