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How to run apps in private

Certificate revocation checks in macOS could be misused in surveillance. How could you prevent that without putting your Mac at risk?

February 23, 2021 Macs, Technology

Code-signing requirements for scripts and apps in Big Sur

Does Big Sur require you to sign your own apps or other code using a proper Apple-issued signature? What about notarization and quarantine? Your questions answered.

February 18, 2021 Macs, Technology

Updating external disks and 1 True Recovery on an M1 Mac

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How you might be able to update an external bootable disk, errors you can encounter, and how can you use 1 True Recovery?

February 17, 2021 Macs, Technology

Why reporting bugs to Apple may harm software quality

Apple asks us to report all bugs through Feedback, a system which it controls, and uses to its own advantage. Doing so discourages Apple from thoroughly testing its products, and we’re the losers.

February 16, 2021 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Big Sur 11.2.1 update is broken

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How to install macOS on your M1 Mac’s external SSD. But it comes with a snag: you can only install 11.2 and can’t update it to 11.2.1.

February 14, 2021 Macs, Technology

Spotlight on search: Four different Spotlights

Global in the menu bar, Local in the Finder, Core in-app, and Third-party for other developers. Spotlight is a chimera, and each finds different items.

February 13, 2021 Macs, Technology

Diagnosing a Spotlight bug in Big Sur: failure to index RTF content

Why can’t my Macs find text in Rich Text files? This explains how to diagnose the cause – which here is a bug in Big Sur’s Spotlight importer for RTF.

February 12, 2021 Macs, Technology

Big Sur, Software Update, Content Caching Server and M1 Macs

Although updating each M1 Mac requires 1 GB of direct download from Apple, there are great economies in running your own Content Caching Server. And why Apple doesn’t want to offer standalone Big Sur updates.

February 11, 2021 Macs, Technology

External boot disks still don’t work properly with M1 Macs

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Making an external bootable SSD for an M1 Mac has proved tricky. Has this changed in macOS 11.2? If you’ve already got 11.1 running on one, how do you update it to 11.2?

February 10, 2021 Macs, Technology

What’s changed in Big Sur 11.2.1?

The surprise minor update to macOS 11.2.1 is smaller in size than the 11.2 update: around 2.4 GB […]

February 9, 2021 Macs, Technology

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