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Apple pushes silent update to XProtect against Findzip or Filecoder.E

Apple has pushed out another update to the XProtect data for Sierra and El Capitan systems, early today. […]

February 23, 2017 Macs, Technology

So many times: the clocks in your Mac

Time should be universal, simple, and precise. Not in computers, though. Given enough clocks, it can behave oddly at times.

February 23, 2017 Macs, Technology

Troubleshooting Time Machine: stuck preparing backup, and the deep event scan

When Time Machine seems to take a long time preparing the next backup, or gets stuck, here is how to diagnose and deal with it.

February 20, 2017 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed a silent update to Gatekeeper’s security data

Less than 24 hours after releasing macOS Sierra 10.12.3 update, Apple has today pushed out a silent update […]

January 24, 2017 Macs, Technology

Last Week on my Mac: Silence is not golden

Did Apple’s last silent security updates bring protection against Fruitfly/Quimitchin? How can we tell?

January 22, 2017 Macs, Technology

New Mac malware: Fruitfly, or OSX.Backdoor.Quimitchin

Malwarebyte Labs has just reported newly-detected malware which can affect most versions of OS X / macOS, and […]

January 18, 2017 General, Macs, Technology

Apple pushes silent security updates

Overnight, Apple has pushed out silent updates to El Capitan and Sierra security protection data. MRT Configuration Data […]

January 18, 2017 Macs, Technology

Tackling keychain problems in Terminal

Sometimes resorting to Terminal can be the best and simplest way to fix a keychain problem.

January 12, 2017 Macs, Technology

If you’re still running El Capitan, Apple doesn’t care about you

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Does Xcode 8 support El Capitan, or does Apple leave it to developers to break the bad news to users?

January 11, 2017 General, Macs, Technology

Why we need consistent content-sensitive selection of text

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Getting basic, everyday things like text selection right isn’t as sexy as AI or VR, but it’d make our work and lives easier.

January 5, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Technology

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