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macOS 10.14

Global defaults in macOS Mojave

Inside all those hidden settings which control App Nap to Trackpad scaling factors: what they are and how to set them.

August 15, 2019 Macs, Technology

Alifix 1.1 should be faster with old Finder Aliases

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New version should address long delays in checking old Finder Alias files.

August 14, 2019 Macs, Technology, Updates

APFS tools suck

It may be over 2 years old, but its supporting tools are more like those of a beta. Adding containers isn’t at all straightforward.

August 14, 2019 Macs, Technology

What shall we do with the drunken Alias? Try Alifix 1.0

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How can you check all your old Finder Aliases to see which are broken and, more importantly, which are in danger of breaking?

August 13, 2019 Macs, Technology, Updates

Hitting the limits of APFS is both easy and confusing

What’s the minimum size of a container, or a volume, in APFS? The answer can range from 1.05 MB up to 167.8 MB, it appears.

August 12, 2019 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Human frailty

Over a million people learned that very personal details of their had been leaking from an unsecured server. What should we learn?

August 11, 2019 General, Macs, Technology

The ‘hardened runtime’ explained

Newly-built apps supplied by developers outside the App Store need now to be notarized. This in turn requires hardening, but what is that?

August 10, 2019 Macs, Technology

Taccy version 1.2 now deciphers new privacy settings for Catalina

Do you want to see exactly what protected resources an app can try to access? Or check that your own app is correctly configured?

August 8, 2019 Macs, Technology

Colour fonts are upon us – in Mojave at least

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Emoji are no longer the only characters which come in full colour: OpenType-SVG fonts are now available in full colour too, and simple to use in macOS 10.14 and iOS 12.

August 8, 2019 General, Macs, Technology

Tools updated to fix security errors when opening documents

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Keep control over documents with quarantine flags to avoid bizarre security errors, using new versions of Pratique and Sandstrip.

August 7, 2019 Macs, Technology

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