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Should you upgrade to Catalina early?

Are you an early adopter, or a cautious delayer? Here’s some advice about the forthcoming upgrade to Catalina to help you decide.

September 3, 2019 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: The minor update that took 5 weeks

Apple started the 10.14.6 update on 22 July, and has (perhaps?) completed it on 26 August, almost as bad as with High Sierra last year. Does this bode ill for Catalina?

September 1, 2019 Macs, Technology

SilentKnight 1.2 now reports the expected iBridge version

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Although mainly aimed at Macs with T2 chips, this update brings better saving of main window size and position too.

August 31, 2019 Macs, Technology, Updates

Apple has pushed an update to Gatekeeper’s data

Apple has pushed an update to the data used by Gatekeeper, bringing its version number to 181, dated […]

August 26, 2019 Macs, Technology, Updates

Apple has pushed an update to Gatekeeper’s data with two version numbers again

Apple has pushed an update to the data used by Gatekeeper, bringing its version number to 179, dated […]

August 19, 2019 Macs, Technology, Updates

Apple has pushed another update to MRT

Apple has pushed an update to MRT bringing its version to 1.48 dated 15 August 2019. Apple provides […]

August 15, 2019 Macs, Technology, Updates

How to get news on Apple’s latest updates, and updates to my apps

A new Updates category here can alert you to the latest macOS updates, and those to my free apps too.

August 13, 2019 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology, Updates

Last Week on My Mac: Human frailty

Over a million people learned that very personal details of their had been leaking from an unsecured server. What should we learn?

August 11, 2019 General, Macs, Technology

The ‘hardened runtime’ explained

Newly-built apps supplied by developers outside the App Store need now to be notarized. This in turn requires hardening, but what is that?

August 10, 2019 Macs, Technology

Firewalls, phoning home and whitelists

Mac users are increasingly using software firewalls to prevent apps from making outgoing connections. Here are some tips, and links to help you build whitelists.

August 9, 2019 Macs, Technology

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