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Inside macOS installer apps and disks

Full macOS installers come in different presentations according to how they’re obtained. Explained here are what’s in an installer app, and how a bootable installer disk works.

September 20, 2021 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 117

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: In a bottle, […]

September 18, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: the Recovery Partition

Introduced in Mac OS X 10.7, it remained an HFS+ partition until High Sierra. With Mojave, it became an APFS volume, except for M1 Macs.

September 18, 2021 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 116

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 116. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Wireless […]

September 13, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Running software automatically using launchd

How to set your Mac to run scripts, apps and other software automatically, and at regular intervals, using launchd and a property list.

September 13, 2021 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 116

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Wireless control knob […]

September 11, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Looking back in time at backing up with Time Machine

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From Apple’s basic Backup to your iDisk, through the first version of Time Machine in 2007, to Time Machine to APFS in Big Sur.

September 11, 2021 Macs, Technology

T2M2 version 1.19 is now available

Intended to be the last version to support macOS 10.12 to 12, and backing up to HFS+ volumes, this contains small improvements particularly for Monterey.

September 9, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 115

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 115. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Drinks […]

September 6, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Troubleshooting macOS versioning

Although problems are rare, solutions are very limited. How to test the version system, and the few things you can do to fix it.

September 6, 2021 Macs, Technology

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