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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

Why won’t that Help book open?

In Big Sur and Monterey, if you’ve not opened an app’s Help book, the first time you do it may appear empty, or simply not work. Here’s why and how to fix it.

November 16, 2021 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

Big Sur’s Tower of Babel

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Time to speak Klingon to your Mac. Or, rather, don’t try this at home or you could end up with mixed languages, and Help pages in something else.

March 13, 2021 Language, Macs, Technology

Does Big Sur need a bit more Help?

macOS Help system was last revamped in High Sierra, and has worked well. Until Big Sur has problems finding Help books, and shows some in French. How Help should work.

December 3, 2020 Macs, Technology

Accessing this blog – news feeds and pages

Details of how to get different news feeds from each part of this blog, and how to find information from its over 5,000 articles.

April 27, 2020 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, 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

PDF without Adobe: 7 Adding a PDF Help book

A simple way to provide a proper Help book for your app, and separate PDF documentation without wasted effort. Uses Swift in Xcode.

February 18, 2019 Macs, Technology

Make Mojave custom dictionaries work better

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How to fix custom dictionaries so that they display properly in Dark Mode. Sadly it doesn’t (yet) work for Help books too.

October 4, 2018 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Finishing off

I realised that almost everything listed in my Downloads page was still in beta. Finishing off is important, and requires a proper Help book.

May 20, 2018 Macs, Technology

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