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HelpHelp: first release version now available to fix your Help Books

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No more problems with the ‘wrong’ Help Book: this can now identify and fix those issues. First full release.

March 23, 2017 Macs, Technology

How far back does Sierra’s new log go?

Sierra doesn’t use and ‘roll’ traditional log files. For how long does it keep entries in its new log?

March 23, 2017 Macs, Technology

Apple pushes silent security update

Overnight, Apple has pushed a silent update to the Gatekeeper security data for macOS 10.12 Sierra and, presumably, […]

March 23, 2017 Macs, Technology

More fun scripting with Swift and Xcode: Sorting with a closure

How to sort an array of arrays of strings, on the contents of one of those strings, in just 4 lines of Swift.

March 21, 2017 Macs, Technology

HelpHelp: development version 0.2 is now available

It now sorts the popup menu, and reflexively even has its own Help Book – called, as you’d hope, HelpHelp Help.

March 21, 2017 Macs, Technology

More fun scripting with Swift and Xcode: Reading Plists, building popups, and more

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How HelpHelp accesses a large nested Property List files, handles its data as arrays, and uses NSHelpManager.

March 20, 2017 Macs, Technology

HelpHelp: a tool to search Help Books and debug problems

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First development release of a free tool to examine Help Books, their problems, and search Help for specified apps.

March 20, 2017 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Still looking for help

When it was written, Apple’s documentation of its Help system was incomplete and misleading. It simply doesn’t work like that.

March 19, 2017 General, Macs, Technology

How reliable is About This Mac’s Storage tab?

In Sierra, does yours work properly, not work at all, or give you incorrect figures?

March 18, 2017 Macs, Technology

LockRattler 3.3 update now available, adding help and tooltips

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This new version includes its docs as a Help Book, and adds Tooltips to explain the output and controls.

March 15, 2017 General, Macs, Technology

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