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Last Week on My Mac: Uncompressed compressed files

Only six files out of tens of thousands searched. They’re supposed to be compressed, but aren’t. And nothing has been near them that might have done that. So why and how did this happen?

June 21, 2026 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 365

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

June 20, 2026 General, Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 364

I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 364. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Border lake […]

June 15, 2026 General, Macs, Technology

Fix documents that won’t open as expected using Quarant2

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A new drag-and-drop app to change quarantine extended attributes on documents, so enabling you to double-click them to open when they won’t otherwise.

June 15, 2026 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Why is it so hard to open a document?

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Double-clicking a document to open it in its editor is quintessentially Mac, yet for the last nearly 7 years it could result in a bizarre dialog and refusal. Does any of this make sense?

June 14, 2026 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 364

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

June 13, 2026 General, Macs, Technology

macOS virtualisation is leaping forward in Golden Gate

Three big changes coming to macOS virtual machines: USB accessory access, including external storage, guest provisioning, and layered disk images for VMs.

June 12, 2026 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 363

I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 363. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Apparition in […]

June 8, 2026 General, Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: What’s in a name?

Apple is addicted to naming features and subsystems in its operating systems, and has named each major version of Mac OS X since Cheetah. Is it seriously intending to leave macOS 27 without a name?

June 7, 2026 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 363

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

June 6, 2026 General, Macs, Technology

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