Peace of mind about how your new MacBook Pro will cope with its notch, next week’s release of macOS 12.0.1, and a pause for Universal Control.
Monterey
Shortcuts in Monterey works in different ways to ensure that it can’t be used as a malware platform. This introduction shows how this works transparently.
So you want to try a 3rd party password manager, but use Safari as your browser. How do you import its stash of passwords, or keep an independent record of them?
October 1993: AppleScript for the Mac.
April 2005: Automator for the Mac.
September 2018: Shortcuts for iOS.
October 2021: Shortcuts for macOS.
Why did Apple release three public betas in a week – macOS 12.0, 11.6.1 and Catalina Security Update 2021-007?
Can you migrate your old backups from HFS+ to APFS format? What can slow your backups down? Can you still use AFP, and what about restoring the system?
A detailed walk through the log shows Safari 15 checking Safe Browsing, phishing sites using ML, and performing trust evaluation of certificates.
How to recover a deleted app or document without having to restore from your Time Machine backup. Simple steps and no use of Terminal.
An exploration of how Time Machine backs up to APFS, using Mints to make log access quick, simple, and easy to understand. And notes on changes in Monterey.
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.
The Eclectic Light Company 