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macOS 10.14

Ulbow version 1.0b3 is now feature-complete

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Adds CSV export of log extracts, and fixes two bugs. Is this now ready for final release?

January 13, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Key macOS and related documentation from Apple

Over the last month or two, Apple has at last been improving its user documentation. Although these online […]

January 9, 2020 Macs, Technology

Diagnosing privacy protection problems in Catalina

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Tips to help you investigate and tackle problems arising in Catalina with its new privacy protections, particularly those of folders such as Documents.

January 7, 2020 Macs, Technology

Taccy version 1.7 helps diagnose Catalina privacy problems

Adds kernel messages to the log excerpts, making them more useful in diagnosing privacy problems, and greatly improvements their formatting.

January 7, 2020 Macs, Technology

Browse your log with Ulbow 1.0b2, with many new features

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Now uses monospace font, can write and read logarchive bundles and individual log files within them, and more.

January 6, 2020 Macs, Technology

New free Unified Log Browser Ulbow in first beta

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Still struggling to use the Unified Log in Sierra and later? Perhaps Ulbow will make simpler but no less powerful. Please try this first beta.

December 30, 2019 Macs, Technology, Updates

Last Year on My Mac: Explanations required

What’s the point of impressive Finder illusions when users can’t rely on your explanation of how to erase a disk? Apple’s problems of 2019 considered.

December 29, 2019 Macs, Technology

Time Machine: 6 Networked storage

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From its first release, Time Machine has been designed to back up over a network. So why the problems? And how you can make your own NAS.

December 19, 2019 Macs, Technology

Making sense of Disk Utility and disk structure in macOS 10.13-10.15

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The Finder, Disk Utility and Terminal show disks and volumes differently, according to their function. This can appear confusing in Catalina until it has been explained.

December 18, 2019 Macs, Technology

Dictation changes in Catalina – for the worse?

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Mojave’s effective Enhanced Dictation is gone in Catalina, replaced by Voice Control. In some ways that’s better, but not for dictation.

December 13, 2019 Macs, Technology

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