Devised at PARC in 1970, it was at the heart of the user interface for Apple’s Lisa and Mac. Although much changed in Mac OS X, then with Stage Manager and other additions to macOS, it has survived. Is it now being abandoned?
Category Archive: Macs
Compare log entries when clicking on an item in the Finder, once when it’s selected but not brought into focus, and again when it’s correctly brought into focus. This points to a cause as shown here,
Coming next week in macOS 27.2: the ability to add or remove apps from Local Network privacy. Also global exceptions explained.
Apple has just released its regular weekly update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5368 for all Macs, […]
Log entries are decorated with emoji, and structured using Unicode box characters. There’s also a shorthand for naming files and directories, rather than censoring their names.
This works around an infuriating bug in SwiftUI that prevents full selection of log entries. Essential when using in macOS 27 Golden Gate.
Thirteen new files, including images and PDF, are created. How long does it take Spotlight’s indexing process to notice, to import them to its indexes, and when is text recognised and extracted from images?
I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 382. Here are my solutions to them. 1: With twenty […]
Can you use the log stats -overview command to discover how far back you can check your Mac’s active Unified log? Could that really be as long as 2 weeks?
In previous macOS, clicking on components in a window selects those and makes them the centre of attention, or focus. This has broken in macOS 27, as shown in the Finder and an app.
