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Extend log analysis with Logistician 1.3

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New version exports log statistics in CSV format for further analysis by Numbers, Excel and others. Here’s a demonstration of what can be done, including a comparison with ‘War and Peace’.

July 6, 2026 Macs, Technology, Updates

Logistician 1.2 fixes a couple of bugs

Fixes to occasional but persistent crashing bugs with no workaround. Recommended for all users.

June 30, 2026 Macs, Technology, Updates

Who’s been accessing my storage? Reading a disk’s history

How to tell whether someone has been eating the (APFS) porridge on one of your disks, using Get Info and DiskUtility’s First Aid. And a surprise hidden volume from 3 years ago.

October 17, 2024 Macs, Technology

How some log entries vanish sooner than others

Sometimes, when you return to examine entries in the log a few hours after they were written, many of them have vanished. How come?

April 20, 2021 Macs, Technology

Bookmarks, a type of Alias: their access and use

They’re Base-64 encoded data which is related to the Finder Alias. Here’s how to resolve them in an app, at the command line, and in code.

May 21, 2020 Macs, Technology

Back to school: studentd and Classroom in Mojave 10.14.4

If you’ve updated to macOS 10.14.4, you’ve already installed supporting software to use your Mac in a classroom. Was this an error in the update? What does it do?

April 1, 2019 Macs, Technology

Further improvements to Podofyllin’s Source window

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Restores XML metadata stored in text format, and now gives the option to view raw PDF source as well.

March 14, 2019 Macs, Technology

PDF without Adobe: 18 Seeing inside PDF more clearly

Looking at the source of a PDF file isn’t easy, as most of it is streams of binary data. Here’s an easier way, which also comes with a search feature.

March 13, 2019 Macs, Technology

PDF without Adobe: 17 Unredacting Manafort’s documents and recovering PDF versions

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How to reveal incorrectly redacted content in a PDF document, and discover previous versions of that document inside its file.

March 11, 2019 General, Language, Macs, Technology

PDF without Adobe: 16 Reading PDF source

How you can tell whether a PDF file is likely to contain orphaned content and other problems, as available now in Podofyllin.

March 9, 2019 Macs, Technology

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