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Network Utility

How to investigate network problems effectively

You might be lucky and solve it by inspiration. When that fails, fall back on a careful, thorough and systematic approach as explained here.

May 24, 2022 Macs, Technology

CoreServices apps: the rest

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Among the most useful are Archive Utility, now including Apple Archive compression, and Storage Management. But Network Utility is now non-functional.

December 27, 2021 Macs, Technology

Why can’t I connect to that website? Simple tests with Network Utility

Using Lookup, Ping, and Traceroute to work out why you can’t connect to a website. Is your ISP blocking it, perhaps?

November 1, 2017 Macs, Technology

Running repairs: Sierra’s handy tools, from Disk Utility to Storage Management

Sierra sticks with the old favourites like Disk Utility, but still can’t repair permissions or keychains. A new app, Storage Management, has been added.

October 15, 2016 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Can’t find the server

How can I investigate frequent errors when browsing of “Can’t find the server”?

November 11, 2015 Macs, Technology

The poetry within the Internet: Bad Horse

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Hidden deep in domain names are the lyrics to a Joss Whedon song, from an Internet musical.

September 25, 2015 General, Language, Life, Macs, Technology

The Cost of Not Restarting

I sat in front of my iMac, only to discover that the Internet was gone. The right lights still shone on my modem-router, but no matter where I pointed Safari, I got a near-instant error.

April 9, 2015 Macs, Technology

My Mac don’t work – troubleshooting tools and techniques

Like all sophisticated systems, Macs do sometimes go wrong. Indeed in some hands they always seem to be […]

February 10, 2015 Macs, Technology
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