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PermissionScanner 1.3 is notarized and fully ready for Mojave

Helps you scan for faulty permissions in your Home folder, with help from Mojave’s new privacy protection system.

September 1, 2018 Macs, Technology

Booting the Mac: Will my Mac boot from this disk? A visual guide

You want to boot your Mac from an external drive, but it doesn’t work. A diagram to explain what can go wrong, and how to fix it.

September 1, 2018 Macs, Technology

Precize 1.4 is notarized and fully ready for Mojave

This update comes with full guidance on how to get the best from the app with Mojave’s privacy protection.

August 31, 2018 Macs, Technology

Using Unicode better

Trying to work with Unicode can be frustrating at times. Here’s an excellent free book with valuable practical tips for all users, and much more for linguists too.

August 31, 2018 General, Language, Macs, Technology

LockRattler 4.10 is a recommended update for all users

Brings a new feature, to check whether a firmware password is set. For Mojave, adds online check of current versions, and help with privacy protection.

August 30, 2018 Macs, Technology

Booting the Mac: bless, and what makes a volume bootable

The command bless used to be able to control all things to do with booting, but has become steadily less useful with the advent of SIP and others.

August 30, 2018 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed its weekly update to Gatekeeper’s data

Apple has just pushed an update to the data used by Gatekeeper, bringing its version number to 153, […]

August 27, 2018 Macs, Technology

Booting the Mac: Visual Summary

Single-diagram summary of how a modern Mac starts up in macOS 10.12 or 10.13, from pressing the Power button to running the kernel.

August 25, 2018 Macs, Technology

Booting the Mac: the kernel and extensions

How macOS gets to load a hefty kernel and over 300 extensions so quickly: it cheats with a pre-linked kernelcache. And why you don’t see extensions loading in the log.

August 23, 2018 Macs, Technology

Back to My Mac dies with Mojave

Apple has announced that its Back to My Mac feature will not be supported in macOS 10.14 Mojave, […]

August 21, 2018 Macs, Technology

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