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macOS 10.14.4 update likely on 25 March, with new iMacs and more?

Ready to download updates to macOS, iOS, watchOS, Xcode, and some security updates, all at once? It looks like we’re going to be busy next week.

March 19, 2019 Macs, Technology

Further improvements to Podofyllin’s Source window

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Restores XML metadata stored in text format, and now gives the option to view raw PDF source as well.

March 14, 2019 Macs, Technology

PDF without Adobe: 18 Seeing inside PDF more clearly

Looking at the source of a PDF file isn’t easy, as most of it is streams of binary data. Here’s an easier way, which also comes with a search feature.

March 13, 2019 Macs, Technology

PDF without Adobe: 17 Unredacting Manafort’s documents and recovering PDF versions

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How to reveal incorrectly redacted content in a PDF document, and discover previous versions of that document inside its file.

March 11, 2019 General, Language, Macs, Technology

PDF without Adobe: 16 Reading PDF source

How you can tell whether a PDF file is likely to contain orphaned content and other problems, as available now in Podofyllin.

March 9, 2019 Macs, Technology

PDF without Adobe: 15 macOS can sanitize your PDFs

When I opened a PDF to inspect its source, the file was quite different to that seen in BBEdit. Was my file system broken?

March 8, 2019 General, Language, Macs, Technology

PDF without Adobe: 14 PDF is inherently not secure

PDF is an invaluable, universal document format which is fundamentally flawed, allowing it to leak unintended content and worse. Here’s how this happens.

March 6, 2019 General, Language, Macs, Technology

PDF without Adobe: 13 PDF documents can readily leak data

Three ways to remove data from PDFs: redaction, deletion of content, and deletion of annotations. Can you trust them, or do they leak data?

March 4, 2019 General, Language, Macs, Technology

PDF without Adobe: 12 Vulnerabilities in digital signing

Do you use digital signatures in PDF documents, or do you trust your PDF reader to check them? You could be spoofed into trusting forgeries.

February 28, 2019 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed an update to MRT

A day after updating Gatekeeper’s data, Apple has just pushed an update to its malware removal tool, MRT, […]

February 21, 2019 Macs, Technology

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