Which anti-virus and security products should you use? Here are some recommendations to keep the malware at bay.
macOS
What should you do if your Bluetooth keyboard isn’t working properly? Is it something you can fix, or a bug in macOS?
Irregular Time Machine backups are one of Sierra’s great mysteries. It now looks as if they might have been fixed in 10.12.4.
How to set a managed account up for a child, or another vulnerable user, using Parental Controls.
Spring is here – time to do some cleaning of the blog to help you access current articles more easily.
A starting point for diagnosing and fixing your Mac problems, with links to key articles here.
Why does almost every Mac user use their system in an admin role? Shouldn’t macOS encourage us to be ‘normal’ users?
Factoring the code better to separate reading and writing the underlying data, and converting that for display.
In an undocumented change, 10.12.4 prevents any access to reading Sierra’s log when in normal user mode – it requires admin mode.
From 10.8 onwards, you will not see the classic grey display, but your Mac will spontaneously restart or shut down. Here are the details, and what to do next.
The Eclectic Light Company 