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Last Week on My Mac: Who decides when to quit an app?

When I’ve finished using an app, I usually quit it, only to open it again later. Can macOS manage apps any better than I can, or is it just becoming more like iOS?

December 6, 2020 Macs, Technology

Why can’t my iPhone or Mac tell me how hot it is today?

There’s a reliable and accurate index for the heat which can’t be measured by iPhones or Macs, and isn’t understood by many anyway.

August 8, 2020 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Smartphone contact tracing has failed everywhere

Even the ‘successful’ contact tracing apps have fallen well below expectations, and incapable of discovering their effectiveness.

July 25, 2020 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Big Sur and Apple Silicon: interesting times ahead

macOS 11 Big Sur comes with the promise of Macs with Apple’s own processors later this year. So what changes?

June 24, 2020 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Lock down your mind

What has distinguished this year isn’t the pandemic, police murders, or Apple’s intransigence, but the complete intolerance which we are showing to one another.

June 21, 2020 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Is it possible to trace contacts using Bluetooth on smartphones?

Is the big problem not privacy at all, nor waking up to contacts, but inaccuracy in Bluetooth measuring distance? And how successful is contact tracing?

June 13, 2020 General, Life, Macs, Technology

How’s the smartphone contact tracing going then, or is it dead?

Did you think the UK was launching a smartphone contact tracing app? So did I, and have been trialling it. So when will it be released? Does it even work?

May 30, 2020 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Trials of the UK’s Covid-19 app: where next?

Confused aims and poor adoption could prove fatal, and dash hopes of ever using smartphone technology to our benefit in tackling the pandemic.

May 20, 2020 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Covid-19 testing and diagnosis: where privacy stops

What’s the difference between a suspect and confirmed case, and which should be used for contact tracing? What about the implications of testing?

May 14, 2020 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Smartphone contact tracing without Apple or Google

Can a smartphone contact tracing app work without using the support in Apple and Google’s forthcoming frameworks? Are there advantages?

May 12, 2020 General, Life, Macs, Technology

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