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Last Week on My Mac: Drag, drop, clipping

Drag content from an app onto the Desktop or a location in a Finder window to create a clipping file. Although they date back to the early 1990s, they’re still well supported in Tahoe.

January 4, 2026 Macs, Technology

Reversing Spotlight search with a second beta of Spotcord

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Second beta adds support for all metadata keys, has an extensive Help book, and saves results in a text file. Discover the keywords you can search for.

October 12, 2023 Macs, Technology, Updates

Get more from your metadata: reversing Spotlight

Automated image analysis and other tools store keywords in many different types of files. To search effectively for keywords, though, you need to know which terms have been used.

October 2, 2023 Macs, Technology

How to add a custom icon to an app without breaking its signature

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In Mojave and Catalina, tampering with the contents of an app bundle risks breaking signature checks. Here’s how to work around that.

July 20, 2019 Macs, Technology

Finding and converting legacy media 1: still images

Later this year, in macOS 10.15, one of the media types which will become unsupported is JPEG 2000 still images. Here’s how to find and convert your old images.

March 26, 2019 Macs, Technology

Can macOS 10.13 High Sierra write HEIF/HEIC image files?

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Which apps can write image files using High Sierra’s wonderful new HEIF? I can’t find one, can you?

October 19, 2017 Macs, Technology

Porting from WordPress to Storyspace, 1: imports and prototypes

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Converting from fairly linear HTML to interconnected hypertext – aiming to tell the several stories of the history of oil painting.

September 15, 2016 General, Macs, Painting, Technology

GraphicConverter 10.0 is now available

In case you missed it, version 10.0 shipped on 25 May in the App Store, and has dozens of new and improved features.

May 30, 2016 General, Macs, Painting, Technology

Q&A: 3D video support

What support is there for my 3D video camera?

October 23, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: EXIF missing data

Why does mdls not give full image metadata?

August 23, 2015 Macs, Technology

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