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How to repair your keychain by making a fresh one

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OS X used to provide a keychain first aid feature. Now this has gone, this is the only way that you can try to repair a defective keychain: create a new one.

December 8, 2016 Macs, Technology

Apple silently updates Gatekeeper security data for Sierra and El Capitan

Apple has today pushed out an update to its Gatekeeper Configuration Data, for Sierra and El Capitan users. […]

December 7, 2016 Macs, Technology

File system funnies in Sierra: folders that aren’t, and altered aliases

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Sierra brings undocumented weirdness to the Finder, with a folder that is, but it isn’t, and improved Finder aliases, which don’t work as well. Yet.

December 6, 2016 Macs, Technology

Protecting Sierra: SIP and its vulnerability

A significant vulnerability has been found in El Capitan and Sierra’s security protection. Will Apple fix it shortly in 10.12.2?

December 5, 2016 Macs, Technology

Sierra’s limping camel: the App Store, as dysfunctional as ever

If there’s one update that we need, it is an App Store app which works reliably. The current one suffers from general dystopia.

December 2, 2016 Macs, Technology

macOS Sierra and Dropbox: have the problems resolved yet?

There were 2 serious incompatibilities when Sierra launched: ScanSnap which is now fixed, and Dropbox. How’s Dropbox doing now, then?

December 1, 2016 Macs, Technology

Sierra’s Bluetooth drivers are still fairly broken

Not back to the Bluetooth purgatory of El Capitan, but still some worrying moments when your trackpad goes missing.

November 28, 2016 Macs, Technology

Last Week on my Mac: the devil in the detail

Time to pause for breath, I think, for macOS and Xcode. Apple needs to bring the docs up to date, and attend to the detail.

November 27, 2016 Macs, Technology

Time Machine problems in macOS Sierra

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Some users are having problems getting Time Machine to work in Sierra. Here are some suggestions to get that first backup completed.

November 23, 2016 Macs, Technology

Resources to help the non-novice learn and use Swift on macOS

An extensive listing of books, courses, example code libraries, coding environments, and more to help you get going in Swift 3.

November 19, 2016 Macs, Technology

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