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Last Week on My Mac: Obfuscating errors

Many Mac users now have a better idea as to whether anything’s amiss at home than in their Mac. Why we need a way to check a Mac’s status.

July 31, 2022 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: The log is the wrong place

macOS doesn’t handle significant errors and failures well, burying them away in the log. It needs to report them to the user through a new sub-system.

July 21, 2019 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: POPSS, vulnerability by documentation

While we were getting worried about Signal’s notifications leak, POPSS was quietly making almost every major operating system vulnerable – because of poor documentation.

May 13, 2018 Macs, Technology

Are you being pestered to upgrade to High Sierra?

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This marketing notification was silently installed using Apple’s pushed update service, and is easily removed.

November 22, 2017 Macs, Technology

Beyond Scripting in Swift: Sharing and syncing data throughout an app

Maintaining a menu gathered across all the open documents could be tricky. Here’s a simple solution using UserDefaults and NotificationCenter.

November 13, 2017 Macs, Technology

Who’s in control of your Mac? Notifications

Are you getting over-notified? Who’s in charge – you the user, or macOS? Getting control of notifications, both local and remote.

November 10, 2017 Macs, Technology

Forgetting Facebook and annulling notifications

Which do you prefer: Facebook or Twitter? For me the choice was simple, and Facebook’s response has only reinforced my decision.

May 11, 2017 General, Life, Macs, Technology
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