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The ultimate diagnostic tool: sysdiagnose

When you have tried everything else, this shell command will throw the book at your problem, running all the diagnostics it can.

February 6, 2016 Macs, Technology

Unintended consequences of SIP

El Capitan’s no-go areas make many important extensions unusable now. Apple must step in and enhance OS X to compensate.

February 5, 2016 Macs, Technology

Events, handlers, and focus: how OS X apps work

Why it takes two clicks or taps to dismiss a dialog which is not the front window in OS X, and why that is correct.

February 1, 2016 Macs, Technology

Losing their Sparkle: vulnerabilities in updaters

In-app update systems can be vulnerable to attack, if they do not use secure connections throughout.

January 30, 2016 Macs, Technology

OS X El Capitan is probably due an important security fix

A serious vulnerability was discovered in OpenSSL in the New Year. Although the conditions in which it is […]

January 28, 2016 Macs, Technology

Inside the OS X blacklist: XProtect

Perhaps not as effective as one of the better anti-virus apps, it is free and built into OS X.

January 25, 2016 Macs, Technology

Is your Mac a nightmare to update?

Some Macs seem to be struggling with El Capitan updates. Does yours?

January 24, 2016 Macs, Technology

Apple updates XProtect anti-malware tool in El Capitan

On 21 January 2016, Apple pushed out a silent update to XProtect, its anti-malware protection software built into […]

January 23, 2016 Macs, Technology

Apple, Secret Squirrels, and updates

What is Apple’s dark secret about OS X 10.11.3? Or was it just a failure in documentation?

January 21, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

So what was all OS X 10.11.3 about? The real list of updates

The update was over 600 MB: here is a fuller list of what it actually updated.

January 20, 2016 Macs, Technology

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