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Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 366

I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 366. Here are my solutions to them. 1: First unknown […]

June 29, 2026 General, Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 366

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: First unknown […]

June 27, 2026 General, Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 365

I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 365. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Half the […]

June 22, 2026 General, Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Uncompressed compressed files

Only six files out of tens of thousands searched. They’re supposed to be compressed, but aren’t. And nothing has been near them that might have done that. So why and how did this happen?

June 21, 2026 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 365

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Half the […]

June 20, 2026 General, Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 364

I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 364. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Border lake […]

June 15, 2026 General, Macs, Technology

Fix documents that won’t open as expected using Quarant2

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A new drag-and-drop app to change quarantine extended attributes on documents, so enabling you to double-click them to open when they won’t otherwise.

June 15, 2026 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Why is it so hard to open a document?

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Double-clicking a document to open it in its editor is quintessentially Mac, yet for the last nearly 7 years it could result in a bizarre dialog and refusal. Does any of this make sense?

June 14, 2026 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 364

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Border lake […]

June 13, 2026 General, Macs, Technology

macOS virtualisation is leaping forward in Golden Gate

Three big changes coming to macOS virtual machines: USB accessory access, including external storage, guest provisioning, and layered disk images for VMs.

June 12, 2026 Macs, Technology

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