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Saturday Mac riddles 340

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

December 27, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

What blocks QuickLook from some directories?

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Why can’t some files be seen in thumbnails, or previews, but almost everything else can be seen thanks to QuickLook? And is this connected to Spotlight indexing?

December 23, 2025 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 339

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 339. Here are my solutions to them. 1: The […]

December 22, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Upgrades and the standard user

Standard users aren’t allowed to chang other users’ settings, but they’ve long been able to update macOS, and for the last 3 years to install full upgrades. Should this change?

December 21, 2025 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 339

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

December 20, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Standard users can upgrade macOS

Before macOS 12.3, upgrades and updates were different, and only admin users could authenticate the installation of an upgrade to macOS. Now even standard users can, as explained here.

December 19, 2025 Macs, Technology

Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS

Apple has just released an update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5325. As usual, it doesn’t release […]

December 16, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 338

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 338. Here are my solutions to them. 1: The […]

December 15, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 338

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

December 13, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: WindowServer

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It’s the master compositor, laying all windows out to generate the image to be displayed. It also handles input and other event routing, as it knows where each app’s windows are, and which are at the front.

December 13, 2025 Macs, Technology

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