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Firewalls, phoning home and whitelists

Mac users are increasingly using software firewalls to prevent apps from making outgoing connections. Here are some tips, and links to help you build whitelists.

August 9, 2019 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: What emergency? We’ve got serious photos

Snow, freezing rain, and thaw – just when you need the Met Office’s webpages. So it took its live weather pages offline, and promoted its mobile apps.

March 4, 2018 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Why can’t I connect to that website? Simple tests with Network Utility

Using Lookup, Ping, and Traceroute to work out why you can’t connect to a website. Is your ISP blocking it, perhaps?

November 1, 2017 Macs, Technology

Last Week Off My Mac: Should we relocate?

Remote and rural areas have been losing their people to cities for many centuries. Does bringing good internet access change this?

September 3, 2017 General, Macs, Technology

A Mac on the edge of Europe

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Barriers to living in more remote areas with high quality of life are being removed, but self-sufficiency is important. Changes in macOS do not help.

August 25, 2017 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Going back to the book

Search engines don’t work, as they’re indifferent to quality and accuracy of content. Existing eBook formats are little more than book-in-browser. So how to publish more demanding content?

April 30, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Technology

A storm in the digest: why services will be going down

The workhorses of computer security, message digests and security certificates, are in the process of changing. Some disruption will result.

January 28, 2017 Macs, Technology

Last Week on my Mac: Creaky old internet

You may think that you type URLs into your browser. In fact they’re IRIs, and the internet still can’t cope with Unicode. Why not?

January 8, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Technology

RIP Demon: the Tenner a Month is finally spent

Nearly 25 years ago, Demon Internet started to provide dial-up services to anyone prepared to pay £10 per month. In 30 days, it will finally be gone.

September 13, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Cry freedom, and fear of the dark

When it comes down to it, we are deeply scared of the unknown and alien. Let’s turn that fear around using reason, knowledge, wisdom, and ideals.

July 13, 2016 General, Language, Life, Painting, Technology

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