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Category Archive: Macs

Saturday Mac riddles 386

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

November 14, 2026 General, Macs, Technology

Understand space management with DeltaFree

Data being backed up seems to be increasing steadily, and there are large changes in space used in the Data volume. How large downloads affect that, and can appear puzzling.

November 14, 2026 Macs, Technology

View more free space data in DeltaFree 1.3

New version improves readability of selected containers, and adds compressed plots that can show months of data in a single view without scrolling.

November 13, 2026 Macs, Technology, Updates

Viable 1.1 build 100 has a new help book, and tweaks

With an extensive Help book of over 18 pages and tweaks to improve its use, including when running two VMs at the same time, build 100 is recommended.

November 12, 2026 Macs, Technology, Updates

Work with Aliases and Bookmarks instead of links

Finder Aliases and Bookmarks in files like property lists combine URL paths and inode numbers to make them more robust than symbolic links. Here are tools to help you work with them.

November 11, 2026 Macs, Technology

Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all macOS

Apple has just released an update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5372, for all Macs. As usual […]

November 10, 2026 Macs, Technology, Updates

Dumpster-diving: how the Trash works

One of the grand illusions of the Mac, the Trash only exists in the Finder’s imagination, and is assembled from the contents of several or many directories. Here’s how it works.

November 10, 2026 Macs, Technology

Apple has just released updates to macOS 27.2.1, 26.7.3 and 15.8.3

Apple has just released security updates to bring macOS Golden Gate to 27.2.1, Tahoe to 26.7.3, and Sequoia […]

November 9, 2026 Macs, Technology, Updates

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 385

I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 385. Here are my solutions to them. 1: A cross […]

November 9, 2026 General, Macs, Technology

Viable version 1.1 improves macOS virtualisation workflows

Changes workflows and improves its interface. IPSW files are now copied into the VM as it’s built and deleted automatically when that’s ready to be run. Makes light work of building and running VMs, and works with existing vimi bundles and the Vimy app.

November 9, 2026 Macs, Technology, Updates

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