Looking back over the last 10 years, I wish you a happy, peaceful, and prosperous New Year, and start of a new decade.
OS X
Classic resource forks passed into Mac OS X, but were deprecated by Apple in 10.8. Now in Catalina they can stop working: is this a new security measure?
Apple says that macOS Server is changing, then warns that almost all its services will be removed. After 19 years, is this the end?
New batch file mode can add (e.g.) copyright metadata to hundreds or thousands of files. Handles unusual characters properly. Can also remove extended attributes.
Adds keywords, author, copyright and other info to any file on your Mac. Runs in El Capitan, Sierra, and High Sierra.
Long-awaited, this new book tries to cover most of the ground that the advanced Mac user, developer, sysadmin, or support person needs to understand.
Is there anything more irritating than that spinning coloured wheel, or beachball, which stops you from getting on with a task? This explains why, and what to do about it.
Troubled at times, we have used Disk Utility through thick and thin. Now it has changed to support APFS, with some weird behaviour.
Apple has very recently pushed out an update to Gatekeeper’s configuration data, bringing it to version 131, which […]
Apple has pushed out another silent update to its Gatekeeper configuration data for OS X and macOS. This […]