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Consolation 3.0b7 (fc1): building an infinitely customizable log browser

This new version improves control behaviours in the preferences sheet. Is it ready for final release now?

August 17, 2017 Macs, Technology

What’s a UUID?

They’re almost everywhere now: UUIDs and GUIDs identify disk volumes, printers, even the processes running on your Mac. Here’s an explanation.

August 16, 2017 Macs, Technology

Logging in and out in Sierra’s log

Signposts from Sierra 10.12.6 recording key steps when logging in, out, and fast user switching. And a fascinating process which serialises its log entries.

August 12, 2017 Macs, Technology

Sleep, Wake, and Startup: Hardware and ACPI

Shutdown cause codes, wake reasons, ACPI, and sleep states – diagnosing problems from hardware events.

August 8, 2017 Macs, Technology

Consolation 3.0b6 (fc1): building an infinitely customizable log browser

Adds the ability to export and import libraries of custom predicates, styles, and filters to property list files, independently of preferences – a leap forward.

August 5, 2017 Macs, Technology

Looking in the log: predicates, filters, regex, and find

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Different search and filter tools have different purposes – as demonstrated by exploring the log using Consolation 3. Regex at work!

August 3, 2017 Macs, Technology

How the new tools in Consolation 3 help to explore Sierra’s startup

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How to breeze through the startup process log using new tools in Consolation 3.

August 2, 2017 Macs, Technology

Consolation 3.0b5: building a much better log browser

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Filters are here: Consolation can now apply simple text filters, or regular expressions (regex) to refine your log browsing.

August 1, 2017 Macs, Technology

Consolation 3.0b4: building a much better log browser

Make your log browsing more colourful, and as a result far easier to read.

July 31, 2017 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Display of dense text information

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Let Consolation 3 colour your log extracts: it makes a huge difference in reading and understanding them.

July 30, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Technology

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