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Was that a crash, freeze, panic, or spinning beachball?

Knowing the difference helps you work out what to do in response, and how to work out what went wrong.

November 30, 2019 Macs, Technology

What happens when you run an app in Catalina?

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From launch, through security checks, TCC and privacy, RunningBoard, to memory management and the Main Event Loop. A comprehensive summary.

November 29, 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

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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

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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

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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

Browsing your log with Consolation 3, full release at last

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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

New and improved Consolation 3: rearranged window and more

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Changes made to preferences are now reflected immediately in all windows. Also ported to Swift 4.0 and built in Xcode 9.1.

November 16, 2017 Macs, Technology

See when your Mac starts or wakes up, using Woodpile

New options find and show startup and wake events, and can perform log load analysis on the last 20 days or so of log entries. A unique tool.

November 8, 2017 Macs, Technology

Why did my Mac stop making Time Machine backups? An investigation with Woodpile 0.6a1

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This new version lets you select which log file to analyse, and to add custom processes to examine within log files. Lots of power with elegant simplicity.

October 30, 2017 Macs, Technology

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