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Last Week on My Mac: Miss Havisham Syndrome

Trying to get hardware info within an app – simple data like CPU details, logic board ID, type of internal storage – is fraught and undocumented, the victim of prolonged self-neglect.

October 18, 2020 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Times forgotten

The more you look at changes to Mach Absolute Time coming in Apple Silicon Macs, the more messy they become, largely because the docs are so incomplete.

September 13, 2020 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Where privacy protection fails

Privacy protection differs between GUI and the command line, causing anomalies which are being exploited to steal private data.

August 23, 2020 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: How Apple told us about Apple Silicon 2 years ago

Apple gave us a big clue in the command tool lipo, which underwent complete overhaul in Mojave – a clear signpost of where it is heading.

July 26, 2020 Macs, Technology

Key macOS and related documentation from Apple

Over the last month or two, Apple has at last been improving its user documentation. Although these online […]

January 9, 2020 Macs, Technology

‘Erase Mac’ doesn’t?

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What does the terse phrase Erase Mac mean? If you think that it means completely erase your Mac, […]

December 30, 2019 Macs, Technology

Last Year on My Mac: Explanations required

What’s the point of impressive Finder illusions when users can’t rely on your explanation of how to erase a disk? Apple’s problems of 2019 considered.

December 29, 2019 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Help revised

The Mac is now in a documentation crisis. Documentation debt is leaving many Mac users floundering around in the dark.

December 1, 2019 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Time Machine travels

Changes in Time Machine reflect continuing development of this Mac-only feature, backtracking on using FSEvents, and making backups more complete.

November 17, 2019 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Why isn’t APFS fully supported yet in macOS?

With only sketchy documentation and no open source release, how complete are the tools to support APFS? Are they still “work in progress”?

August 18, 2019 Macs, Technology

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