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Error numbers: the final hurdle

One frustratingly unfriendly feature remains in OS X: error numbers. Now there is a website to help you decode them.

May 21, 2016 Macs, Technology

Lost in the log

Have you glanced at your logs recently? Are they full of incessant message diarrhoea?

May 19, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Apple’s vanishing release notes: arrogance or incompetence?

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Looking for release notes for OS X 10.11.5 update? Sorry, you’re out of luck: Apple doesn’t want us to know. Or does it?

May 18, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Significant security fixes in OS X 10.11.5 etc.

Among the significant improvements made to security in OS X 10.11.5 are: PHP is updated to version 5.5.34, […]

May 17, 2016 Macs, Technology

OS X El Capitan version 10.11.5 update

Apple has now released OS X 10.11.5 update, which is available through the App Store’s updates as usual. […]

May 16, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

The 501 orphan problem: why you shouldn’t delete the primary admin user

To OS X’s Unix heart, you are not a name but a user ID. The first admin user account is 501, and something rather special.

May 11, 2016 Macs, Technology

A panacea for El Capitan problems: applying the latest Combo updater

Installing a Combo update of OS X is a popular panacea for puzzling problems. But you need to do a bit more to complete the job.

May 2, 2016 Macs, Technology

OS X now blocks old versions of Flash prior to 21.0.0.226

If you have just noticed that Flash has stopped working on your Mac, it is the result of […]

April 29, 2016 Macs, Technology

Need an external optical drive? If only life was more simple

It should be easy to choose an external optical drive for your Mac: this guide makes it clearer.

April 27, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

How Apple’s Superdrive enforces obsolescence

If your old Mac’s optical drive fails, Apple wants you to buy a new one – and its USB Superdrive, which won’t work with the old Mac.

April 25, 2016 Macs, Technology

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