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Last Week on My Mac: Silence isn’t golden

As Apple silently drops Mojave’s support, it releases a security update to iOS 12, which was originally released a week before Mojave. And its entire AirPort range also seems unsupported now.

September 26, 2021 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 118

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: 42, 3.14159, 0x2A, […]

September 25, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed an update to XProtect

Apple has just pushed an update to the data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number to […]

September 24, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

The silence of the BoMs: why you don’t know what macOS updates

Before Catalina, each macOS update wrote a full transcript of all it installed to a BoM file, which you can inspect. That stopped, without any substitute.

September 24, 2021 Macs, Technology

How long does Apple support macOS?

Unofficially, each major version of macOS gets a year’s full support, with bug and security fixes, then 2 years of security updates. Is that how it works?

September 22, 2021 Macs, Technology

El Capitan and older Mac OS X are about to have a security certificate problem

If you’re still running El Capitan, or any version of Mac OS X prior to 10.12.1, then you’re […]

September 21, 2021 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 117

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 117. Here are my solutions to them. 1: In […]

September 20, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

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

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