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A visual sampler of window layouts in Sequoia

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Full screen single window, freestyle overlapping, tiled, full screen split view, Stage Manager, Spaces and Mission Control – each pictured and explained.

October 15, 2024 Macs, Technology

Disk Images: How read-write disk images have gone sparse

The only disk images of varying size used to be sparse bundles and sparse disk images. Now plain read-write disk images can also vary in the disk space they take, as explained here.

October 14, 2024 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Lost for words in System Settings

In Sequoia, dragging a window to the edge of the display could suddenly enlarge it to cover the whole screen. Finding the control in System Settings isn’t straightforward, and there’s no Undo either.

October 13, 2024 Macs, Technology

How to keep up to date with SilentKnight without upgrading by mistake

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It’s easy to ensure that SilentKnight won’t inadvertently install an upgrade to Sequoia, but still updates the security data files you want. Here’s how.

October 11, 2024 Macs, Technology

A simple guide to how XProtect installs and updates in Sequoia

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You’ve just installed an update to XProtect in Sequoia, so why doesn’t it change the version number? How to fix this common problem.

October 10, 2024 Macs, Technology

Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all macOS

Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all supported versions of macOS, bringing it to version […]

October 8, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

Disk Images: Introduction

Focussing on sparse bundles and UDIF read-write disk images, this explains their types, structure, how their size can change, and how fast they are in use.

October 7, 2024 Macs, Technology

Apple has released Sequoia 15.0.1 and Safari updates

Overnight European time, Apple released a small but urgent update to macOS Sequoia, bringing it to version 15.0.1. […]

October 4, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

Is there more XProtection in Sequoia?

In Sequoia, XProtect’s data is now updated in a different way. Does this change its capabilities, though? A quick dip into YARA files has the answer.

October 4, 2024 Macs, Technology

Understand and check Time Machine backups to APFS

From dispatch of a new automatic backup, through computing which items need to be backed up, cleaning up snapshots and old backups, to success at the end.

October 3, 2024 Macs, Technology

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