2017 was never going to be easy, and Apple had a lot of accidents over its closing months. It delivered a lot of new products, and with them a lot of new problems.
Mac
Long-awaited, this new book tries to cover most of the ground that the advanced Mac user, developer, sysadmin, or support person needs to understand.
The Finder manages its tags, so changing the label of any tag is immediately reflected in all items using that tag. But what are null tags, and why are they so common?
If Apple manages the performance of iOS, does it do the same with macOS? What is there to stop that from being used against us?
Completely rewritten to use macOS support libraries, parse log extracts, work with both local and iCloud keychains, and give you controls.
Each year, the last major version of macOS is abandoned, incomplete and still full of bugs. Apple needs to reconsider, and complete the cycle by bringing them to marketable quality before moving on.
Do you trust silent pushed updates to keep your Mac’s security data files up to date? How do you check whether they are?
Did you know your Mac may keep a history of its activities going back for over 3 months? Here’s how to access it, and some surprising results.
Even if you don’t connect it, a Mac’s Ethernet port is vital to authorise it to the App Store and more. Here’s how to cope if it goes missing.
A checklist of the latest EFI firmware versions which should be running on each recent Mac model.
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