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Last Week on my Mac: Silence is not golden

Did Apple’s last silent security updates bring protection against Fruitfly/Quimitchin? How can we tell?

January 22, 2017 Macs, Technology

New Mac malware: Fruitfly, or OSX.Backdoor.Quimitchin

Malwarebyte Labs has just reported newly-detected malware which can affect most versions of OS X / macOS, and […]

January 18, 2017 General, Macs, Technology

Apple pushes silent security updates

Overnight, Apple has pushed out silent updates to El Capitan and Sierra security protection data. MRT Configuration Data […]

January 18, 2017 Macs, Technology

Couldn’t stay awake any longer: Energy Saver ignored

Despite being set to stay awake, the other morning my iMac had decided to go to sleep. Why? Is there a ghost in the machine?

January 17, 2017 Macs, Technology

Last Week on my Mac: Workflow efficiency

All too often, we select apps on the basis of features. Support for performing repetitive tasks efficiently and without error is much more important.

January 15, 2017 General, Macs, Technology

KeychainCheck 1.0: a little tool to check user keychains

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This may help you work out what is going wrong with local keychains in Sierra. Another free tool to spare you from Terminal.

January 13, 2017 Macs, Technology

Tackling keychain problems in Terminal

Sometimes resorting to Terminal can be the best and simplest way to fix a keychain problem.

January 12, 2017 Macs, Technology

If you’re still running El Capitan, Apple doesn’t care about you

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Does Xcode 8 support El Capitan, or does Apple leave it to developers to break the bad news to users?

January 11, 2017 General, Macs, Technology

Controlling privacy in macOS Sierra

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How to get the best out of the Privacy tab in the Security & Privacy pane, and why Apple’s apps don’t bother to ask.

January 9, 2017 Macs, Technology

Why we need consistent content-sensitive selection of text

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Getting basic, everyday things like text selection right isn’t as sexy as AI or VR, but it’d make our work and lives easier.

January 5, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Technology

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