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Why Passkeys are so important, and how you can use them now

What you need to use Passkeys in Monterey and Ventura, how they work, and how to set them up, as your primary access and for 2FA.

September 14, 2022 Macs, Technology

Why you should consider upgrading to Ventura early

Among the fancy Emoji and extended language support, Ventura brings four major changes that will affect our Macs deeply for years to come, and are good reasons to upgrade early.

September 7, 2022 Macs, Technology

How to back up and archive iCloud data

Backing up databases stored in iCloud isn’t easy, particularly if you want to be able to restore them. Making archive copies of important contents is more straightforward, though.

March 7, 2022 Macs, Technology

Did someone forget their password? Getting access to a locked Mac

Maybe you’ve just forgotten the password, or perhaps the owner/user of the Mac is no longer able to enter it. How to restore access to different models.

January 18, 2022 Macs, Technology

Explainer: Open Directory

The first version of its predecessor, NetInfo, also handled DNS lookups. When they failed, users found they were locked out of everything else. This has improved!

December 25, 2021 Macs, Technology

How to export passwords and other secrets

So you want to try a 3rd party password manager, but use Safari as your browser. How do you import its stash of passwords, or keep an independent record of them?

October 14, 2021 Macs, Technology

PDF Without Adobe: 26 a PDF protection racket

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Dealing with protected PDFs in macOS: fully encrypted, and those with controls such as no printing or copying. Oh dear.

November 19, 2019 Macs, Technology

Safari 12: a good step forward, but mind the extensions

Don’t rush to upgrade if you rely on Extensions, which might be disabled. There’s also a vulnerability in running old versions of plugins like Flash.

September 19, 2018 Macs, Technology

Apple changes SMC reset on T2 Macs, and updates NVRAM reset info

Important info about resetting the NVRAM with a firmware password, and new procedures for resetting the SMC in Macs with T2 chips.

August 22, 2018 Macs, Technology

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