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Last Week on My Mac: Can we make cleaning up our Macs simpler?

How can we tell where to look for all those files an app installs outside its bundle? Why not include a manifest inside that bundle so we can track down and delete them when doing the housekeeping?

January 26, 2025 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 292

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Paul’s creator […]

January 25, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

What to do when macOS won’t let you unmount a volume

You’re in a rush to eject an external disk, but the Finder tells you it’s in use by unnamed apps. What should you do next, and what has Sloth to do with it?

January 24, 2025 Macs, Technology

Create and use virtual machines on Apple silicon Macs

How to create and set up macOS VMs for virtualisers. The structure of a VM, creation and first run explained. How to enhance it, and how to run it in isolation.

January 23, 2025 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 291

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 291. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Lead-free […]

January 20, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: A boot mystery solved?

It took over 6 months before creating bootable external disks was fairly reliable, and even then there were unexplained failures. Did someone fail to tell us something?

January 19, 2025 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 291

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. This week they […]

January 18, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

A brief history of help

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Based on a cut-down browser, Help Viewer, Apple Help in Mac OS X has had its ups and downs, and several internal revisions, the latest of which is the Tips app in Sequoia.

January 18, 2025 Macs, Technology

Create an external bootable disk for Apple silicon and Intel Macs

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Two important catches that can cause a macOS installation to fail in Apple silicon: using the DFU port, and not setting up ownership correctly. Both are explained here.

January 15, 2025 Macs, Technology

Apple has released an update to XProtect

Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all supported versions of macOS, bringing it to version […]

January 14, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

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