Skip to content

The Eclectic Light Company

Macs & painting – 🦉 No AI content
Main navigation
  • Downloads
  • Freeware
  • All Macs
  • M1-M5 Macs
  • Troubleshooting
  • Painting
  • Mac Front Page

log

Want to write a message to the unified log? blowhole v9 will do that for you

A simple command tool to write messages to the unified log in Sierra and later. Now signed, hardened and notarized.

June 12, 2019 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Unglamorous utilities

They’re hidden away and never promoted at WWDC, but vitally important to every Mac user. Could you imagine not having Disk Utility, for example?

May 26, 2019 Macs, Technology

Cirrus version 1.4 has significant improvements

T T Read More

Recommended for improved functions in its text views, integrity checking each time it opens, and direct link to its product page in the Help menu.

May 25, 2019 Macs, Technology

Consolation 3.1 can copy in Rich Text, preserving text colours

T T Read More

Fixes bug when copying coloured text from log extracts. Colours are now preserved when pasted into Rich Text, etc., documents.

May 24, 2019 Macs, Technology

Investigating a crash using Consolation 3

T T Read More

Pinning down what went wrong when an app has crashed is never easy, but should be far more straightforward browsing the log using Consolation 3.

May 23, 2019 Macs, Technology

Investigating Time Machine errors with T2M2 and Consolation 3

T T Read More

How to detect and investigate a problem with Time Machine backups in Mojave, using only free tools.

May 21, 2019 Macs, Technology

Browsing your log with Consolation 3, full release at last

T T Read More

At last, a full release version of Consolation 3 brings a completely rewritten Help book which covers all its features.

May 20, 2019 Macs, Technology

Did it freeze? Missing 50 minutes of log

Had my Mac frozen, or was it just very busy running tests on the boot disk? When I forced it to restart, what did the log reveal?

May 7, 2019 Macs, Technology

What to do when your log returns an error

It’s quite rare, but sometimes trying to access your Mac’s log, directly or in an app like T2M2, returns an error. Here’s what to do.

April 11, 2019 Macs, Technology

Solving problems with Mojave’s privacy protection

T T Read More

Apple has intentionally made it very hard to troubleshoot problems with privacy protection. Here’s a new feature to help, in a new version of Taccy.

February 1, 2019 Macs, Technology

Posts navigation

Previous 1 … 24 25 26 27 28 … 45 Next
Blog at WordPress.com.
Footer navigation
  • About & Contact
  • Free Software Menu
  • Macs
  • Painting
  • Downloads
  • SilentKnight, Skint, SystHist, silnite, LockRattler & Scrub
  • XProCheck, T2M2, LogUI, Ulbow, blowhole and log utilities
  • Mints: a multifunction utility
  • xattred, SpotTest, Providable, Spotcord, Metamer & xattr tools
  • Versatility & Revisionist
  • DelightEd & Podofyllin
  • Precize, Alifix, UTIutility, Sparsity, alisma, Taccy, Signet
  • System Updates
  • Spundle, Cormorant, Stibium, DropSum, Dintch, Fintch and cintch
  • Virtualisation on Apple silicon
  • Cirrus & Bailiff
  • Text Utilities: Textovert, Disclipper, Nalaprop, Dystextia and others
  • sysctl information
  • Extended attributes (xattrs)
  • 32-bitCheck & ArchiChect
  • Keychains & Permissions
  • PDF
  • VisualLookUpTest
  • Updates
  • Long Reads
  • Mac Troubleshooting Summary
  • Saturday Mac Riddles
  • Last Week on My Mac
  • Painting topics
  • Mac problem-solving
  • M-series Macs
Secondary navigation
  • Search

Begin typing your search above and press return to search. Press Esc to cancel.

  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • The Eclectic Light Company
    • Join 9,147 other subscribers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • The Eclectic Light Company
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar

Loading Comments...