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What does RunningBoard do? 2 Managed apps

How to recognise Catalyst and iPadOS apps from RunningBoard’s job descriptions, and how iPadOS apps are launched differently. And why RunningBoard can take a high CPU %.

July 15, 2025 Macs, Technology

LogUI build 60 reads iOS, iPadOS, macOS and other logarchives

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LogUI can now read and browse saved logarchive packages, including those from other Macs, and iOS and iPadOS devices.

June 9, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

Last Week on My Mac: Whether the weather

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We were sat with the Weather app reviewing prospects for the weekend ahead, when we were warned of a significant threat to life or property requiring us to take action immediately.

December 1, 2024 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Why SwiftUI?

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Why is SwiftUI so important that the Swift language was changed to make it more feasible to implement? Is it just for ease of multi-platform support? Or is it just greener grass?

May 12, 2024 Macs, Technology

Why you should run a Content Caching service

You don’t need a large network to make a Content Caching server worthwhile. If you’ve 100 GB or more to spare on an external disk, and a Mac that’s running when others are, give it a try. It’s simple to set up and use.

May 11, 2024 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: SwiftUI wrangling

SwiftUI is almost five years old. Following experience porting an AppKit app for macOS to SwiftUI, it still has a long way to go. Here’s the current state of play.

April 7, 2024 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Working together, not apart

If you want to work on the same document across different Apple platforms, then the option providing most restrictive access to saved versions is iCloud Drive.

February 18, 2024 Macs, Technology

How you can now verify iMessage contacts

New with Sonoma 14.2, iOS 17.2, and watchOS 10.2 is a service that enables you to verify and put more trust in those you message. Full details here.

December 15, 2023 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: How quickly can Apple release a security update?

The vulnerability in Ventura 13.5.1 must have been reported to Apple between 28 August and 1 September. On 7 September, Apple released fixes for2 vulnerabilities across 4 OSes.

September 10, 2023 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Banishing Sonoma fears

So is macOS slowly merging with iOS, and are our Macs going to be locked down, so they can only run notarized apps?

July 9, 2023 Macs, Technology

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