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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

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 290

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 290. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Quiet […]

January 13, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

How to run more than one version of macOS on one Mac

Which versions of macOS can you ‘dual boot’, should you install them all on the internal SSD, or is a bootable external disk better, and when would you need to virtualise?

January 13, 2025 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 290

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

January 11, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

FileVault and volume encryption explained

How FileVault and APFS Encrypted are enabled and managed differently, and details of how they work internally. Concentrates on T2 and Apple silicon Macs, but also covers older Intel models.

January 10, 2025 Macs, Technology

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