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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

A Console replacement for examining past logs in Sierra: LogLogger 5b (updated)

This update includes documentation, performs some predicate operations properly, and saves the shell command to log excerpt files.

November 17, 2016 Macs, Technology

Bugs in macOS Sierra Finder: window maximise doesn’t

Maximise a List view window in Finder, and it should expand to accommodate the contents. Only sometimes it doesn’t.

November 16, 2016 Macs, Technology

How to check that Time Machine is working properly

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When did Time Machine make its last backup? Are you sure that it completed without error? Here’s how to check these simply.

November 12, 2016 Macs, Technology

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