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Cryptexes, AI and Creedence Clearwater Revival

Apple silicon Macs (and iPhones and iPads) with AI enabled load 23 cryptexes to support that. This explains how that works, and how you might see an odd volume named Creedence….

July 9, 2025 Macs, Technology

Updates to Apfelstrudel (Unicode), AppexIndexer (Appexes), Ulbow (logs) and Versatility (versions)

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Wrangle Unicode normalisation, discover all the app extensions in your Mac, browse the log with nanosecond times, and preserve documents versions when moving them.

June 30, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

Last Week on My Mac: Plan ahead with this summer’s mallyshag

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To avoid your app’s icon going into the sin bin, replace it with one generated by Icon Composer. But that in turn requires overhauling some windows, and there’s a catch in NSLog waiting to get you.

June 29, 2025 Macs, Technology

Starting up: early kernel boot in macOS 15, iPadOS 18 and iOS 18

Security services including TXM, Core Crypto, AMFI, Credential Manager and the SEP Key Store, Gatekeeper and AppleSystemPolicy, tracked during startup.

June 23, 2025 Macs, Technology

Boot disk structure in macOS, iOS and iPadOS, and AI cryptexes

There are substantial differences in the structure of the internal disks in macOS, iPadOS and iOS, as shown here. And there are at least 24 cryptexes now used to support AI.

June 20, 2025 Macs, Technology

LogUI build 65 introduces a Logarchive Tool

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If you only have access to the log files of a Mac or device and can’t create a logarchive of them, this new build offers a solution, plus detailed info about a logarchive to help you browse its contents.

June 11, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

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

LogUI build 58 reads and writes JSON, and more

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You can now save log extracts to JSON files, which LogUI can read in as a log extract. Also a new Reduce tool to filter unwanted log entries.

June 5, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

Last Week on My Mac: Successful search strategies

Applying a sequence of criteria to narrow search until you find your target. How incremental search can help. The role of predicates, and how to search the log.

June 1, 2025 Macs, Technology

Can you trust times shown in the log?

This compares short time intervals obtained from log entry timestamps obtained from the log show command via Ulbow, those from LogUI using OSLog, and Mach Absolute Time.

May 30, 2025 Macs, Technology

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