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How to gain access to a locked Mac

What if you’ve forgotten your Mac’s password, or the secondhand Mac you bought expects you to enter one, or its owner has died?

July 3, 2023 Macs, Technology

Notarisation: privacy controls

Final in series. Examines how the hardened runtime controls access to protected private data and services, and how some use private entitlements.

January 8, 2021 Macs, Technology

Notarization: the hardened runtime

Second in the series. Considers in detail what the hardened environment offers the user, and how notarized apps can opt out of its protection.

January 7, 2021 Macs, Technology

Notarization: is a notarized app ‘safe’ to use?

First of three articles looking in detail at what notarization involves, and the benefits it might have to users. Considers the question of legacy apps.

January 5, 2021 Macs, Technology

How to find all your 32-bit apps: a non-buyer’s guide

What’s the best and most reliable way to tell what 32-bit code won’t run in macOS 10.15? Time is now running short before first betas ship.

May 22, 2019 Macs, Technology

Mojave’s Legacy Software is doubly wrong

How reliably does Legacy Software detect 64-bit compatible upgrades? For some apps, it doesn’t notice at all, it appears, and continues to give wrong information.

April 18, 2019 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Struggling with macOS 10.15 already

How to check whether an app, or other executable code, is 64-bit. It wasn’t an easy task despite the tools that macOS provides.

April 7, 2019 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: mid-life mistakes

A broken Combo updater, and total lack of release notes (even for developers) may make 10.14.3 look bad, but as development of 10.15 gathers pace, prospects are good for macOS.

January 27, 2019 Macs, Technology

Mojave’s Legacy Software isn’t wrong, it’s just a bit slow

Have you given up with the Legacy Software section in System Information? It’s getting more useful, and probably an escalating nudge on the part of Apple. Here’s why.

January 25, 2019 Macs, Technology

Don’t believe System Information’s Legacy Software

Mojave’s new feature to show ‘Legacy Software’ is far from complete, and thoroughly misleading.

October 13, 2018 Macs, Technology

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