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Help Help: 1 Help Crafter

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So how can you add proper help to your app? Amazingly, Xcode’s Help doesn’t even mention Help. It’s time to invest in Help Crafter.

March 7, 2017 Macs, Technology

Blowhole version 1.2 – a more useful tool to write log entries

This command tool can now write just the integer passed to it as a log message. This is ideal for instrumenting scripts and apps for analysis.

March 6, 2017 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Transforming the log to a user tool

Browsing my log in Excel for the first time was a revelation of its potential. We have the tools – all we need is the imagination.

March 5, 2017 Macs, Technology

Waking your Mac from sleep: log highlights

A deep dive into the log to examine what happens when waking from system sleep. And where you can read a cache of old internet connections…

February 27, 2017 Macs, Technology

The Time Bomb Ticking in Sierra: Grand Central Dispatch is broken

This bug disrupts Time Machine backups and all the dozens of activities which macOS manages. It may make Sierra unsuitable for use in servers.

February 25, 2017 Macs, Technology

Apple pushes silent update to XProtect against Findzip or Filecoder.E

Apple has pushed out another update to the XProtect data for Sierra and El Capitan systems, early today. […]

February 23, 2017 Macs, Technology

So many times: the clocks in your Mac

Time should be universal, simple, and precise. Not in computers, though. Given enough clocks, it can behave oddly at times.

February 23, 2017 Macs, Technology

Drift in the timing of log entries in Sierra

View the same log entries at different times, and their timestamps change. This explains why, and what is going on.

February 20, 2017 Macs, Technology

Troubleshooting Time Machine: stuck preparing backup, and the deep event scan

When Time Machine seems to take a long time preparing the next backup, or gets stuck, here is how to diagnose and deal with it.

February 20, 2017 Macs, Technology

Last Week on my Mac: The value of log access

Why was my Mac still preparing a backup 20 minutes after it should have been completed? And what is a ‘deep event scan’?

February 19, 2017 Macs, Technology

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