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The UK’s answer to Covid-19: Testing the iOS app

The UK rejected Apple and Google’s frameworks for contact tracing on phones. So what does the UK app do? You may be surprised at its primary purpose.

May 8, 2020 General, Life, 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

Last Week on My Mac: AppKit, TextKit, Core Data – signs of disease

More bugs in Calculator and Activity Monitor when printing, dreadful lack of documentation of AppKit, TextKit, and CoreData. No wonder Apple is struggling to sell iPhones in China.

January 6, 2019 Macs, Technology

It’s not about the speed, not entirely: Mac mini, iMac Pro, iPad Pro and benchmarks

Is the new Mac mini the best-performing for its cost? Does the new iPad Pro rival better desktop systems in benchmarks? Let’s look at those figures more carefully.

November 22, 2018 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

iOS 11.2.5 may harm the Watch-iPhone relationship

I haven’t written much about my first-generation Apple Watch, because like all good watches, it has just got […]

January 26, 2018 General, Macs, Technology

Last Year on My Mac: Accident-prone

2017 was never going to be easy, and Apple had a lot of accidents over its closing months. It delivered a lot of new products, and with them a lot of new problems.

December 31, 2017 Macs, Technology

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