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macOS 10.14

Mojave’s Time Machine 1.5: Working well but small quirks

With APFS, Time Machine underwent major change, to using snapshots to determine what to back up, rather than FSEvents. How well has this worked?

March 2, 2019 Macs, Technology

Mojave’s mixed-up Finder: Accents, Highlights, and confusion

Accent is blue, Highlight is orange. So what the hell are those menus doing in purple?

February 28, 2019 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Apple quietly pre-announces major change in macOS 10.14.4

How many apps should launch faster, deliver better performance, be smaller, and use less memory than they have in the past.

February 24, 2019 Macs, Technology

Synchronised Scrolling: a brief movie on PDF

Six different PDF documents, all scrolling in unison when one pages through its thumbnails. Not a special effect – a bug in macOS Mojave.

February 23, 2019 General, Macs, Technology

PDF without Adobe: 9 Bizarre bug in macOS

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Many improvements in the second release of Podofyllin, but there’s a weird bug affecting PDF thumbnail views which leads to synchronised scrolling.

February 20, 2019 Macs, Technology

Mojave System Preferences bug: Accent colours get confused

Grey, non-grey, grey – and the General pane has already lost track of the Accent colour. Another sloppy bug.

February 18, 2019 Macs, Technology

PDF without Adobe: 6 Quartz and Preview

A close look at just what macOS PDF support and Preview can do well, including a hidden file conversion feature.

February 16, 2019 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Quick Actions 5: Third-party solution

Searching for third party Quick Actions, I came across the excellent Yoink, the only app which seems to have solved them. Or has it?

February 15, 2019 Macs, Technology

Setting up a new (or repurposed) Mac: 8 The problem of updating firmware

Setting up a new or repurposed Mac may involve updating its firmware – EFI, SMC, and T2 chip if necessary. You can’t do that using imaging, but must run an Apple system installer or updater.

February 11, 2019 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Mojave’s half-baked Quick Actions

Unsupported by developer documentation or Xcode, Quick Actions can only be seriously useful when reversible. Or are they just an embellishment to Finder?

February 10, 2019 Macs, Technology

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