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Last Week on My Mac: Silence isn’t golden

As Apple silently drops Mojave’s support, it releases a security update to iOS 12, which was originally released a week before Mojave. And its entire AirPort range also seems unsupported now.

September 26, 2021 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: When we’re almost twelve

Apple’s release season opens on Tuesday. But what’s happening with Monterey – is it going to be complete and ready, or full of beta-features?

September 12, 2021 Macs, Technology

How macOS launches an iOS app

From LaunchServices and an initial security check by MIS, to FuseBoard and FrontBoard handling the app’s scenes, all you need to know about how an M1 Mac runs iOS apps.

April 26, 2021 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Looking for the killer app

The M1’s honeymoon is over. Speed is great, but users are asking what else the M1 offers. Catalyst and the M1 iPad Pro could prove crucial to the answers.

April 25, 2021 Macs, Technology

How macOS manages iOS apps: RunningBoard comes of age

iOS and iPadOS apps run on M1 Macs in an environment managed by RunningBoard, FrontBoard, FuseBoard, and several assistants.

April 21, 2021 Macs, Technology

iOS apps are translocated when run in macOS

App translocation was introduced to stop malicious software exploiting relative file paths. So how come every time an iOS/iPadOS app is run, it’s translocated?

April 19, 2021 Macs, Technology

iCloud Secure Backup comes to macOS

An important feature for many iOS users, this has now appeared in macOS, despite not apparently being exposed to the user. Here’s what I know.

March 10, 2021 Macs, Technology

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

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