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Last Week on My Mac: Editing iCloud documents is far from seamless

Document versions can be a lifesaver when you need to reverse some changes or recover missing text. So why don’t they work on documents shared in iCloud?

October 7, 2018 Macs, Technology

Document versions are now preserved by iCloud, unreliably

You can now share old versions of documents in iCloud Drive. But don’t expect it to work properly, and stand by for profound confusion.

October 6, 2018 Macs, Technology

Make Mojave custom dictionaries work better

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How to fix custom dictionaries so that they display properly in Dark Mode. Sadly it doesn’t (yet) work for Help books too.

October 4, 2018 Macs, Technology

Launching apps in Mojave: how it has changed

Mojave checks newly-installed apps which are not from the App Store more thoroughly, and handles notarized apps differently too. Here are some details.

October 3, 2018 Macs, Technology

How privacy protection is enforced through the Attribution Chain

How command tools gain access to protected data, through their Attribution Chain. Diagnosing their problems, and fixing them.

October 2, 2018 Macs, Technology

New version of Taccy extends its coverage of info about apps and privacy

Mainly for Mojave users having problems with apps and their access to protected data.

October 1, 2018 Macs, Technology

Mojave’s Dictionary: where Light and Dark Modes collide

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Apple’s choice of headline feature in Mojave, most of the time it works very well. But in some cases, its edges are rough indeed: Dictionary, and emoji.

September 29, 2018 Macs, Technology

macOS 10.14 Mojave doesn’t bring a fresh round of EFI firmware updates

I have now had a chance to analyse the EFI firmware updates included in the macOS 10.14 Mojave […]

September 29, 2018 Macs, Technology

Silent Mojave night: security settings files in macOS Mojave

In amongst the hundreds of thousands of files which together make macOS Mojave work, there are security and […]

September 28, 2018 Macs, Technology

What to do when you can’t get an app the right privacy settings in Mojave

What do you do when an app should connect to control another app or access protected data, but you never see any consent dialog? Or when you incorrectly refuse consent?

September 28, 2018 Macs, Technology

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