Why you should reconsider whether you let your Mac automatically download and install ‘silent’ updates, and what you can do instead.
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New version can display contents of all system updates for Catalina and Big Sur’s boot volume group, at last.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 71. Here are my solutions to them. 1: I […]
Unlike file data, metadata has varying persistence. Some is ephemeral, others sticky. macOS has inbuilt mechanisms for managing the persistence of extended attributes.
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through whatever you’re now allowed to do. 1: I don’t […]
Easy to access, well-supported in the Finder and elsewhere, Finder tags are powerful tools which rely on extended attributes to do their job. All you need to know about them.
Apple has pushed an update today to its malware removal tool MRT, bringing it to version 1.69.3, dated […]
Apple has pushed an update today to the data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number to […]
Where to find its data files, what each contains and does, when XProtect is called to scan software, and a list of known malware it should detect.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 70. Here are my solutions to them. 1: I […]
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