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An Incomplete List of Sierra’s Dispatched Services

Time Machine backups are but one of 70-80 background services which are run by macOS dispatching systems. Here’s a list of some of the others.

May 31, 2017 Macs, Technology

A storm in the digest: why services will be going down

The workhorses of computer security, message digests and security certificates, are in the process of changing. Some disruption will result.

January 28, 2017 Macs, Technology

Les PDFs sont merveilleux: but why is Safari loading them in French?

It only happens when I enable Adobe’s PDF Viewer plug-in, but seems a mystery worthy of Hercule Poirot himself.

January 18, 2017 Macs, Technology

Sierra, wide colourspaces, and browser engines

Colour gets simpler and better in Sierra, except of course when it comes to the web. Have you had any odd colour glitches?

September 30, 2016 General, Macs, Painting, Technology

Security fixes in macOS Sierra, Safari 10, and macOS Server 5.2

Released at the same time as macOS Sierra, Safari 10 is available for OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 and […]

September 21, 2016 Macs, Technology

OS X Security Update 2016-001: it is really OS X 10.11.6.1

Apple released an important, if not compelling, security update to OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 and Yosemite 10.10.5, […]

September 2, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Banned browser extensions

XProtect also protects your Mac from many adware and other unwanted Safari extensions. Here is the list, and details of them.

August 2, 2016 Macs, Technology

Significant security fixes in OS X 10.11.5 etc.

Among the significant improvements made to security in OS X 10.11.5 are: PHP is updated to version 5.5.34, […]

May 17, 2016 Macs, Technology

Sunday scare: had I been hit by ransomware?

I went to close an enlarged view of a painting, and a Macintalk-like robot voice announced that my Mac was compromised.

April 18, 2016 General, Life, Macs, Technology

OS X 10.11.2, Safari 9.0.2, and related updates

The barrage of updates from Apple, released over the last few hours, includes OS X 10.11.2, iOS 9.2, […]

December 9, 2015 Macs, Technology

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