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Last Week on My Mac: A log statistician

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A new app to analyse the size of log entries written by different processes over the last few weeks or months, Logistician. First release version for Sonoma and later.

February 22, 2026 Macs, Technology, Updates

Saturday Mac riddles 348

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: The next […]

February 21, 2026 General, Macs, Technology

In the background: Identification

Get more information about background processes from Activity Monitor, the command tool sfltool performing a BTM dump, attributions.plist, and the log.

February 20, 2026 Macs, Technology

How to erase your Apple silicon Mac

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How to erase just the Data volume, the whole Boot Volume Group, all volume’s in the Mac’s visible container, or the entire internal SSD.

February 19, 2026 Macs, Technology

Apple has just released updates to XProtect and XProtect Remediator

Apple has just released updates to XProtect for all supported versions of macOS, bringing it to version 5330, […]

February 17, 2026 Macs, Technology, Updates

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 347

I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 347. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Stop operating […]

February 16, 2026 General, Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 347

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Stop operating […]

February 14, 2026 General, Macs, Technology

In the background: software update, backup & XProtect Remediator

After logging in, macOS may check for system software updates, run an initial Time Machine backup, and run XProtect Remediator scans. This is how those happen.

February 12, 2026 Macs, Technology

Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS

Apple has just released an update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5329, from the previous release of […]

February 10, 2026 Macs, Technology

In the background: Spotlight indexing

Spotlight indexes on-the-fly so new and changed files are quickly searchable, but periodically needs to assimilate those into its more static indexes. That and Live Text extraction are run following startup.

February 10, 2026 Macs, Technology

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