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There’s more to notarization than that

Is notarization just ‘security theatre’? How easy would it be to distribute malware through a legitimate distributor outside the App Store?

April 24, 2019 Macs, Technology

Sandstrip removes spurious quarantine flags

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A simple utility to remove the many quarantine flags which are written when sandboxed apps open movies, PDF, JPEG and other files, and can cause problems.

April 22, 2019 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: App Store graffiti

Do we really need tens of thousands of spurious quarantine flags attached to perfectly good documents?

April 21, 2019 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed an update to XProtect

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

April 19, 2019 Macs, Technology

Printing without tears in Dark Mode (and exporting to PDF)

How to cater for Dark Mode when printing an AppKit view, and how to add a command to export a document in PDF format. Swift 5.0.

April 19, 2019 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed an update to Gatekeeper’s data

Apple has pushed an update to the data used by Gatekeeper, bringing its version number to 165, dated […]

April 18, 2019 Macs, Technology

Mojave’s Legacy Software is doubly wrong

How reliably does Legacy Software detect 64-bit compatible upgrades? For some apps, it doesn’t notice at all, it appears, and continues to give wrong information.

April 18, 2019 Macs, Technology

The Quest for Sparse Files in APFS: do they exist?

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An ingenious idea to save storage space: leave out empty areas in large files – make them sparse. Do they exist in APFS as claimed?

April 9, 2019 Macs, Technology

Quantum computing and APFS: free and used space

Why measuring free and used disk space is not so simple in APFS, and which estimates you should trust.

April 4, 2019 Macs, Technology

Back to school: studentd and Classroom in Mojave 10.14.4

If you’ve updated to macOS 10.14.4, you’ve already installed supporting software to use your Mac in a classroom. Was this an error in the update? What does it do?

April 1, 2019 Macs, Technology

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