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28 years after Unicode, we still can’t handle accents: PDF + macOS + URL = chaos

Open a PDF document, select a URL within it and Copy. Then paste it into a webpage for publication. Simple – but the URL then broke. Why?

June 20, 2019 General, Language, Macs, Technology

What is SIP and when is it safe to turn it off?

System Integrity Protection can get in your way, and may be recommended to solve compatibility problems. It’s also changing again in Catalina.

June 19, 2019 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed an update to MRT

Just after pushing its earlier update to Gatekeeper’s data, Apple has just pushed an update to its malware […]

June 17, 2019 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed an update to Gatekeeper’s data

Apple has pushed an update to the data used by Gatekeeper, bringing its version number to 169, dated […]

June 17, 2019 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Making notarization as hard as possible

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Preparing software for distribution shouldn’t be harder than writing the code in the first place.

June 16, 2019 Macs, Technology

Want to write a message to the unified log? blowhole v9 will do that for you

A simple command tool to write messages to the unified log in Sierra and later. Now signed, hardened and notarized.

June 12, 2019 Macs, Technology

Time Machine: past, present and future

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Coming up to its 12th birthday, Time Machine backups have changed a great deal, but still rely on a feature almost unique to HFS+. What is their future?

June 10, 2019 Macs, Technology

Updates to LockRattler and SystHist for auto-updating and Catalina

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Adds the new automatic system for checking whether an update is available, and downloaded it when it is. Also addresses minor issues with Catalina beta 1.

June 7, 2019 Macs, Technology

Notarization in Mojave and Catalina

The two biggest changes in Catalina are loss of 32-bit software and the requirement for notarization – which also affects Mojave. All is explained.

June 7, 2019 Macs, Technology

Updates for DelightEd and Podofyllin

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Bringing code integrity checking at each app launch, and automatic checking and download of future updates.

June 6, 2019 Macs, Technology

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