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Apple releases Safari 12.0 update for Sierra and High Sierra

If you’re still trying to get iOS 12 installed and running sweetly, you might check the Mac App […]

September 17, 2018 Macs, Technology

Updated visual summary of the Mac boot process

Adds details of the sequence of screens displayed at each stage, to help diagnose boot problems.

September 17, 2018 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed its weekly update to Gatekeeper’s data

Apple has just pushed an update to the data used by Gatekeeper, bringing its version number to 154, […]

September 4, 2018 Macs, Technology

Booting the Mac: Will my Mac boot from this disk? A visual guide

You want to boot your Mac from an external drive, but it doesn’t work. A diagram to explain what can go wrong, and how to fix it.

September 1, 2018 Macs, Technology

Booting the Mac: bless, and what makes a volume bootable

The command bless used to be able to control all things to do with booting, but has become steadily less useful with the advent of SIP and others.

August 30, 2018 Macs, Technology

Apple has released a second Supplemental Update for the MacBook Pro 2018 with Touch Bar

Apple has just released macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 Supplemental Update 2 for MacBook Pro (2018) models with T2 […]

August 28, 2018 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed its weekly update to Gatekeeper’s data

Apple has just pushed an update to the data used by Gatekeeper, bringing its version number to 153, […]

August 27, 2018 Macs, Technology

Booting the Mac: Visual Summary

Single-diagram summary of how a modern Mac starts up in macOS 10.12 or 10.13, from pressing the Power button to running the kernel.

August 25, 2018 Macs, Technology

Booting the Mac: the kernel and extensions

How macOS gets to load a hefty kernel and over 300 extensions so quickly: it cheats with a pre-linked kernelcache. And why you don’t see extensions loading in the log.

August 23, 2018 Macs, Technology

Updates all round to Blowhole, RouteMap, and the Signpost Kit

At last: RouteMap performs some analysis on your Signposts, and with the other tools can be used to estimate latency, and look at macOS system performance too.

August 21, 2018 Macs, Technology

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