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Recovering a damaged document

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That document is damaged and can’t be opened. But you think it’s got versions saved, if only you could get at them. How?

March 1, 2019 Macs, Technology

Entitlements: how apps get back what they’ve given up

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With apps in future set to come from the App Store or notarized by Apple, entitlements are going to be the rule not an exception.

February 26, 2019 Macs, Technology

Playing with fire: dealing with slow hot Macs

What should you do with a Mac whose fans keeping coming on full blast, with high CPU loads from kernel_task, and sluggish performance?

February 25, 2019 Macs, Technology

Synchronised Scrolling: a brief movie on PDF

Six different PDF documents, all scrolling in unison when one pages through its thumbnails. Not a special effect – a bug in macOS Mojave.

February 23, 2019 General, Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed an update to MRT

A day after updating Gatekeeper’s data, Apple has just pushed an update to its malware removal tool, MRT, […]

February 21, 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 163, dated […]

February 21, 2019 Macs, Technology

Why is kernel_task slowing my Mac down so much?

It’s hot, you’re hot, and your Mac has slowed right down. Activity Monitor tells you that it’s kernel_task which is to blame. Is macOS playing up, or what?

February 20, 2019 Macs, Technology

PDF without Adobe: 9 Bizarre bug in macOS

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Many improvements in the second release of Podofyllin, but there’s a weird bug affecting PDF thumbnail views which leads to synchronised scrolling.

February 20, 2019 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Problems of PDF

Why don’t some PDFs display properly outside Adobe software? Will PDFs ever become more accessible? And what to do when they get damaged?

February 17, 2019 General, Language, Macs, Technology

PDF without Adobe: 6 Quartz and Preview

A close look at just what macOS PDF support and Preview can do well, including a hidden file conversion feature.

February 16, 2019 General, Language, Macs, Technology

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