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A brief history of SIP

It provided 3 protections when introduced in El Capitan in 2015, and has now grown extensively to cover NVRAM, kernel boot arguments, authentication of root, and even malware scans.

August 23, 2025 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 321

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 321. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Where […]

August 18, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 321

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Where to […]

August 16, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

A brief history of XML and property lists

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From GML in 1969 came SGML, then in 1998 XML 1.0 was released. This was used to set out property lists in Mac OS X, and more recently have been stored in binary format.

August 16, 2025 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 320

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 320. Here are my solutions to them. 1: What […]

August 11, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 320

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: What ET […]

August 9, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

A brief history of PDF on the Mac

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Adobe’s Carousel reader came in 1993, and in Mac OS X PDF was built into its Quartz graphics. That enabled Preview to become the claimed ‘fastest PDF viewer on the planet’.

August 9, 2025 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 319

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 319. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Successor […]

August 4, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 319

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Successor to […]

August 2, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

A more detailed history of Spotlight

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Supported by some of the many patents awarded to Apple’s engineers, a year-by-year account of the development of Spotlight from 1994 to 2019.

August 2, 2025 Macs, Technology

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