There’s more to the Finder’s illusions than plain folders. Here’s an explanation of packages and bundles, and how to use and abuse them.
macOS
Apple will be judged by its ability to surprise us with the new, revelatory, and enabling – which have become less frequent.
Is Sierra’s Apple Help on its way out? If not, how does it differ from that documented 8 years ago for Leopard – when the current docs were last revised.
Another epic journey, this time to make an Installer package for my Blowhole command tool.
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.
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.
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.
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…
This bug disrupts Time Machine backups and all the dozens of activities which macOS manages. It may make Sierra unsuitable for use in servers.
Apple has pushed out another update to the XProtect data for Sierra and El Capitan systems, early today. […]
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