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Last Week on My Mac: Tahoe 26.1 disappointments

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Two big disappointments: the new Liquid Glass control does nothing to address the problems, and Background Security Improvements haven’t learned from mistakes with RSRs.

November 9, 2025 Macs, Technology

Appearance revisited: Get Tahoe 26.1 looking in better shape

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Light or Dark appearance? Liquid Glass Clear or Tinted? Reduce Transparency or Increase Contrast? Pick an Icon & Widget Style too. All illustrated.

November 5, 2025 Macs, Technology

Appearance matters: Get Tahoe looking in better shape

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How to use appearance mode, reduce transparency, increase contrast, and icon, widget & folder colour to get Tahoe looking just right.

September 15, 2025 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Handling errors

Confess, identify, solution, damage limitation, and reference – key elements in the information an app needs to provide the user when an error occurs.

October 22, 2023 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Similar hardware but different by design

The iPad Pro has the same M2 chip as a MacBook Air, a keyboard and trackpad, and a single Thunderbolt/USB4 port, but there the similarities end.

December 11, 2022 Macs, Technology

Last Week on my Mac: Consistency and iCloud

Consistency is an overriding design principle for the human interface. However you use iCloud storage, it adopts different behaviours from those of the Finder. Apple needs to evolve the iCloud interface to improve it, and to empower the user.

April 29, 2018 Macs, Technology

It’s about the interface, not the technology

A whole Mac event devoted to a tiddly little Touch Bar? Has Apple lost its senses? Maybe not.

October 28, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Events, handlers, and focus: how OS X apps work

Why it takes two clicks or taps to dismiss a dialog which is not the front window in OS X, and why that is correct.

February 1, 2016 Macs, Technology

Opening access: entering text without a keyboard

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A thorough account of Dictation in El Capitan, and how you can use your Mac despite having RSI, etc.

December 3, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Opening new windows where you want them

I would like new windows in apps to open in the lower half of the screen. Can El Capitan do that yet?

December 2, 2015 Macs, Technology

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