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Objective-See TaskExplorer: see what’s good and bad

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Even if you don’t like the idea of apps blocking what they deem to be suspicious events, TaskExplorer gives you the ability to check out what is going on, and what looks suspicious.

August 5, 2015 Macs, Technology

How to rename batches of files

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Save yourself the tedium, using Finder, NameChanger, Automator, Better Rename, or Perl.

August 5, 2015 Macs, Technology

Coming fix for ‘dyld’ vulnerability in OS X 10.10

You may have read of the recently disclosed ‘dyld’ privilege escalation vulnerability in OS X 10.10. This was […]

August 4, 2015 Macs, Technology

How to uninstall an app

The worst software seems to go out of its way to remain, like a stain on your clothes, and can even render OS X unstable.

August 3, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Replacing a broken Mail app

I want to give my old Mac away, but it has lost the Mail app. How can I replace that?

August 2, 2015 Macs, Technology

A version too far

Versioning reflects some of Apple’s worst corporate auntiness. We need more self-determination.

July 29, 2015 Macs, Technology

Documents and versioning

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What seemed another Apple quirk has become a sea change in the way that apps work, and things can go wrong.

July 28, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Spinning beachballs

My iMac keeps stalling with the ‘spinning beachball’. Is this a memory problem?

July 25, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Broken Boot Camp drive

Trying to install Ubuntu on my Boot Camp partition crashed my iMac, and it will not now boot from its install optical disk. How can I recover it?

July 22, 2015 Macs, Technology

Asleep on the job

I wonder whether the most important requirement in power management is to obtain an Energy Saver rating, rather than function in the way that we expect.

July 21, 2015 Macs, Technology

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