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How much power does Visual Look Up use?

Using powermetrics and log entries, a single image was processed on an M4 Pro, with content analysis and object recognition and look-up. How much power and energy did that use?

September 2, 2025 Macs, Technology

What happens during startup?

Explains the sequence of events from Boot ROM to FileVault login, what storage is accessible at different times, and where the code is.

August 29, 2025 Macs, Technology

How to check if your Apple silicon Mac is booting securely

How to check your Mac is booting in Full Security, and how to read its log to verify all the key steps involved in that process.

August 21, 2025 Macs, Technology

What does RunningBoard do? 5 Log insights

How to discover which apps were launched, which appexes were run, and life cycle events for executable bundles, and map waypoints and events in the log.

August 7, 2025 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Search and you’ll find

A meta-search for Apple’s patents on search, and turning the incessant log chatter of RunningBoard to our advantage in following uninstrumented apps.

August 3, 2025 Macs, Technology

What does RunningBoard do? 4 Assertions

How a close reading of the assertions acquired by RunningBoard can tell you a great deal about the life cycle of an app.

July 31, 2025 Macs, Technology

Updates for file integrity (Dintch/Fintch), compression (Cormorant) and LogUI build 70

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These updates feature overhauled windows, new app icons for compatibility with Tahoe, and have been rebuilt. LogUI gets a minor tweak that should improve its window controls in Tahoe.

July 14, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

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

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