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What has changed in macOS Big Sur 11.3?

At last Apple has returned to providing extensive release notes to accompany the Big Sur 11.3 update. Because […]

April 27, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Apple has released Big Sur 11.3 update

Apple has just released the update to Big Sur 11.3. It’s huge: for M1 Macs, it weighs in […]

April 26, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

How macOS launches an iOS app

From LaunchServices and an initial security check by MIS, to FuseBoard and FrontBoard handling the app’s scenes, all you need to know about how an M1 Mac runs iOS apps.

April 26, 2021 Macs, Technology

Cirrus 1.12 and Taccy 1.14 fix time issues and improve log performance

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Updates recommended for all users. They finally address problems with using 12-hour and other clocks. Log handling code has been refactored to improve performance.

April 23, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Consolation 3.13 fixes time issues and improves command output

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This update is recommended for all users. It finally addresses problems with using 12-hour and other clocks. It also reveals a more useful version of the log command used to get a log extract.

April 23, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

How macOS manages iOS apps: RunningBoard comes of age

iOS and iPadOS apps run on M1 Macs in an environment managed by RunningBoard, FrontBoard, FuseBoard, and several assistants.

April 21, 2021 Macs, Technology

iOS apps are translocated when run in macOS

App translocation was introduced to stop malicious software exploiting relative file paths. So how come every time an iOS/iPadOS app is run, it’s translocated?

April 19, 2021 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Death by SMB

Slow performance when backing up to a network share is mainly down to SMB. Without its improvement, Time Machine over a network is still dead in the water.

April 18, 2021 Macs, Technology

Mints version 1.3 improves log handling and addresses time formatting

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With extensive refactoring in the code to display logs extracts, this update should be faster and require less memory on all supported versions of macOS.

April 17, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

How abysmal SMB performance can choke networked backups

How can it take over 5 hours to back up 79 GB of files to a network share? That’s an average transfer rate of 4 MB/s, probably slower than your Internet connection.

April 16, 2021 Macs, Technology

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