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User account Advanced Options: shortcut to hell

If anyone recommends that you change the Advanced Options for a user, please read this first. It could save you a lot of pain and grief.

May 24, 2018 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Finishing off

I realised that almost everything listed in my Downloads page was still in beta. Finishing off is important, and requires a proper Help book.

May 20, 2018 Macs, Technology

Cirrus version 1.0 release: the iCloud tool is ready for general use

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Do you use iCloud? Then you need this, the only tool for managing it properly, investigating its problems, and tacking them.

May 19, 2018 Macs, Technology

DeepTools 1 released: preserve document versions wherever they go

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Do you use macOS versions in documents? Here are 3 tools to look after those, when copying documents and moving them around.

May 17, 2018 Macs, Technology

Revisionist 1.0b7 scans in the background

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Makes it easier to examine folders checking which documents have versions stored, using its Crawler window.

May 16, 2018 Macs, Technology

Inspect the deepest details of your files with Precize 1.0b6

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New version integrates Bookmark resolution, preview, etc. and has detailed reporting. Runs on El Cap to High Sierra, HFS+ and APFS.

May 15, 2018 Macs, Technology

Do you use email encryption at all? macOS 10.13.4 update may help

Fuller details have now been published about the EFAIL vulnerabilities in PGP and S/MIME email encryption, at the […]

May 15, 2018 Macs, Technology

Should you use shutdown or reboot in the command line?

Is shutdown -r now better than reboot? What advantages does Finder’s Restart have over them? The answers are in these logs.

May 14, 2018 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: POPSS, vulnerability by documentation

While we were getting worried about Signal’s notifications leak, POPSS was quietly making almost every major operating system vulnerable – because of poor documentation.

May 13, 2018 Macs, Technology

Putting a browser window in your app

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Adding a WebKit browser window is straightforward so long as you ignore what Apple tells you.

May 12, 2018 Macs, Technology

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