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Couldn’t stay awake any longer: Energy Saver ignored

Despite being set to stay awake, the other morning my iMac had decided to go to sleep. Why? Is there a ghost in the machine?

January 17, 2017 Macs, Technology

Last Week on my Mac: Workflow efficiency

All too often, we select apps on the basis of features. Support for performing repetitive tasks efficiently and without error is much more important.

January 15, 2017 General, Macs, Technology

KeychainCheck 1.0: a little tool to check user keychains

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This may help you work out what is going wrong with local keychains in Sierra. Another free tool to spare you from Terminal.

January 13, 2017 Macs, Technology

Tackling keychain problems in Terminal

Sometimes resorting to Terminal can be the best and simplest way to fix a keychain problem.

January 12, 2017 Macs, Technology

If you’re still running El Capitan, Apple doesn’t care about you

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Does Xcode 8 support El Capitan, or does Apple leave it to developers to break the bad news to users?

January 11, 2017 General, Macs, Technology

Controlling privacy in macOS Sierra

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How to get the best out of the Privacy tab in the Security & Privacy pane, and why Apple’s apps don’t bother to ask.

January 9, 2017 Macs, Technology

Why we need consistent content-sensitive selection of text

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Getting basic, everyday things like text selection right isn’t as sexy as AI or VR, but it’d make our work and lives easier.

January 5, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Spotlight and iCloud Drive in Sierra

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Can you search documents on your iCloud Drive using Spotlight? Probably, but it doesn’t seem to work using normal metadata indexes.

January 3, 2017 Macs, Technology

Last Year on my Mac: For better or worse?

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Sierra, new MacBooks and MacBook Pros, APFS, Affinity Photo, malware, surveillance – 2016 was perhaps not as bad as it seemed.

January 1, 2017 General, Macs, Technology

LockRattler 2.0: a quick check of more macOS security protection systems (update)

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Here’s a new version of this utility to check whether SIP and other security systems are active.

December 27, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

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