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Check whether your Mac’s sudo is vulnerable with Mints 1.1

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Now checks whether the sudo vulnerability has been patched, and improves Spotlight search testing too.

February 22, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Full release of Mints 1.0 is now available, and diagnoses Big Sur’s Spotlight bug

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Adds further features to diagnose Spotlight indexing and search problems. First full release at last.

February 15, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

How to test Spotlight out in 30 seconds with Mints 1.0b11

New version of free utility Mints includes a powerful new feature for checking Spotlight’s indexing and search. Here’s how to use it.

February 8, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Mints version 1.0b10 now shows more about your Mac, including Apple Silicon models

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Gives extensive information about your Mac, whether Intel or Apple Silicon.

November 12, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Last Week on My Mac: Miss Havisham Syndrome

Trying to get hardware info within an app – simple data like CPU details, logic board ID, type of internal storage – is fraught and undocumented, the victim of prolonged self-neglect.

October 18, 2020 Macs, Technology

How macOS schedules and dispatches background tasks using CTS 2

In the first article in this series, I explained how a great many background activities in macOS, including […]

October 14, 2020 Macs, Technology

How macOS schedules and dispatches background tasks using CTS 1

Rather than using cron or launchd, many background services in macOS are now run using Centralized Task Scheduling (CTS). This is how it works.

October 13, 2020 Macs, Technology

Mints now provides better volume info, and looks at task scheduling

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Adds a new log view of background task scheduling and dispatch, greatly improves volume info, and fixes a rare crash.

October 12, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Mints can now reveal your Mac’s logic board ID

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This new version helps iMac17,1 owners discover the logic board ID, to help investigate their problems updating firmware.

September 23, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Mints now provides two more tools

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One new tool to list capacities on mounted volumes, the other to deliver detailed information on keychains.

September 22, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

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