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How High Sierra has changed Help

macOS 10.13.4 brought a major overhaul to the Help system, which greatly improves performance and usability. Here are some of its secrets.

April 17, 2018 Macs, Technology

High Sierra has changed Help, and broken HelpHelp

Somewhere between High Sierra 10.13 and 10.13.4, Apple has made major changes to the Help system. Unfortunately, these […]

April 12, 2018 Macs, Technology

Beyond Scripting with Swift: Bar charts and ToolTips

Drawing in a graphics view shouldn’t be as hard as it seems. And how making custom ToolTips is simple, when you know how.

October 23, 2017 Macs, Technology

HelpHelp updated for High Sierra compatibility

Explore and access installed Help books, and lets you add other Help books too. Now for High Sierra too.

September 22, 2017 Macs, Technology

A Spring Clean on Mac Contents Pages

Spring is here – time to do some cleaning of the blog to help you access current articles more easily.

April 19, 2017 General, Macs, Technology

Mac help and articles on older topics

Topical listing of articles about older versions of OS X up to 10.10, and other less current material about Macs and related topics.

April 19, 2017 Macs, Technology

HelpHelp: first release version now available to fix your Help Books

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No more problems with the ‘wrong’ Help Book: this can now identify and fix those issues. First full release.

March 23, 2017 Macs, Technology

HelpHelp: development version 0.2 is now available

It now sorts the popup menu, and reflexively even has its own Help Book – called, as you’d hope, HelpHelp Help.

March 21, 2017 Macs, Technology

HelpHelp: a tool to search Help Books and debug problems

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First development release of a free tool to examine Help Books, their problems, and search Help for specified apps.

March 20, 2017 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Still looking for help

When it was written, Apple’s documentation of its Help system was incomplete and misleading. It simply doesn’t work like that.

March 19, 2017 General, Macs, Technology

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