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Last Week on My Mac: Not a PC

It’s a strange coincidence that Intel and Microsoft came up with similar hardware of P and E core types in a SoC, and identical terminology for thread allocation using QoS.

August 14, 2022 Macs, Technology

Apple’s decade of exceptional change

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Looking back over the last 10 years, I wish you a happy, peaceful, and prosperous New Year, and start of a new decade.

January 1, 2020 General, Macs, Technology

macOS 10.14.4 update likely on 25 March, with new iMacs and more?

Ready to download updates to macOS, iOS, watchOS, Xcode, and some security updates, all at once? It looks like we’re going to be busy next week.

March 19, 2019 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: The UUID conspiracy

Should you worry about Apple and all those UUIDs? Some claim that they are being used to track you and what you do on your iPhone and Mac.

May 27, 2018 Macs, Technology

iOS 11, or maybe 11.2.6, may change Photos’ handling of screenshots

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How the iOS Photos app may save your PNG screenshot images in JPEG format: one mystery solved, another opened.

April 21, 2018 Macs, Technology

Lost in iCloud Translation? When PNGs suddenly become JPEGs

When you take a screenshot in iOS, it is saved in PNG format. There is no option. So why do mine come across on iCloud Drive as a JPEG?

April 20, 2018 Macs, Technology

How to browse the log on an iOS device

If you’re familiar with the macOS log and have problems with an iOS device, you can easily access its log to help in diagnosis.

April 18, 2018 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Unfinished business

Each year, the last major version of macOS is abandoned, incomplete and still full of bugs. Apple needs to reconsider, and complete the cycle by bringing them to marketable quality before moving on.

November 5, 2017 Macs, Technology

You can still sync apps and ringtones with iTunes 12.6.3

If you want to continue to use iTunes to download and manage iOS apps and ringtones for your […]

October 10, 2017 Macs, Technology

HEVC and HEIF: new video and still image formats

High Sierra and iOS 11 introduce HEVC video, and HEIF still image compression. But what good are they?

September 11, 2017 Macs, Technology

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