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Sticky preferences: why trashing or editing them may not change anything

Have you ever tried removing or editing a preference file, to no effect? This explains why that happens, and how to get changes to work properly.

July 6, 2017 Macs, Technology

Diving even deeper into preferences

Problems with preference files can easily crash an app, even when the file looks fine, and its permissions are correct. Here’s why and how.

July 4, 2017 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed silent updates to Gatekeeper and MRT data

Apple has pushed out silent updates to Gatekeeper’s configuration data, bringing it to version 115, and to MRT […]

July 1, 2017 Macs, Technology

I can’t log in: what to do when you forget your password, or its doesn’t work

You suddenly can’t remember your password, or your Mac won’t accept what you think is your password. What do you do next?

June 30, 2017 Macs, Technology

LaunchAgents and LaunchDaemons: Closing the vulnerability

OS X and macOS make it very easy for malware to make itself persistent. It’s time for High Sierra to improve protection of the user.

June 24, 2017 Macs, Technology

Taking Charge of Time Machine Backups: backing up on demand

How to run one-off backups, how to cancel automatic backups, and how to set your own backup schedules.

May 27, 2017 Macs, Technology

How macOS runs background activities: 4 Using XPC Activity

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How scheduling concurrent and background tasks using XPC Activity works, and compares with alternatives such as NSBackgroundActivityScheduler.

May 23, 2017 Macs, Technology

Moving a blog to Tinderbox: Guiding decisions

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Transferring a decision-making guide from a quick flowchart into Tinderbox notes.

May 19, 2017 General, Macs, Technology

The mysteries of sleep: what’s making my hard drive sleep?

Can your Mac control sleep of its display, disks and system independently of one another? Many can’t.

May 17, 2017 Macs, Technology

Important changes to Recovery mode

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There are now three different Recovery modes. This explains which to use, and provides a flowchart to help you work out how best to reinstall in them.

May 16, 2017 Macs, Technology

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