Skip to content

The Eclectic Light Company

Macs & painting – 🦉 No AI content
Main navigation
  • Downloads
  • Freeware
  • All Macs
  • M1-M5 Macs
  • Troubleshooting
  • Painting
  • Mac Front Page

Sierra

How to read Sierra’s unified log as a normal user

A helping hand for those who run in normal user mode and cannot access log contents as a result.

July 11, 2017 Macs, Technology

Apple has silently updated Gatekeeper data

Apple has today updated Gatekeeper configuration data to version 117 (116 seems to have been skipped). Apple does […]

July 8, 2017 Macs, Technology

airport: a hidden Wi-Fi tool in macOS Sierra

Want to perform a quick scan for base stations, change Airport preferences, or check your Airport interface? Here’s the tool to do it.

July 8, 2017 Macs, Technology

Sticky preferences: why trashing or editing them may not change anything

Have you ever tried removing or editing a preference file, to no effect? This explains why that happens, and how to get changes to work properly.

July 6, 2017 Macs, Technology

Blowhole 2 can now write any string you like into the log

Want to write to Sierra’s log from a language or app which doesn’t give easy access? Use this free tool which now writes anything you want.

July 3, 2017 Macs, Technology

Next Weeks on My Mac: Where to go with the log?

Looking forward to the new features in Consolation version 3. Please comment and make suggestions.

July 2, 2017 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed silent updates to Gatekeeper and MRT data

Apple has pushed out silent updates to Gatekeeper’s configuration data, bringing it to version 115, and to MRT […]

July 1, 2017 Macs, Technology

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to FileVault

How FileVault encryption failed, apparently damaging an SSD with less than 250 hours use. And what I did to fix it.

July 1, 2017 Macs, Technology

Swift Snippets 5: Bundles, Process, Background activity, Shell commands

Calling shell commands, including with privileges, NSBackgroundActivity, XPC Activity, and writing shell commands in Swift.

June 28, 2017 Macs, Technology

Swift Snippets 4: Numbers, Dates, Unified log, Objective-C

Dates with (NS)Date and DateFormatter, writing messages to Sierra’s unified log, and working with old Objective-C interfaces.

June 28, 2017 Macs, Technology

Posts navigation

Previous 1 … 45 46 47 48 49 … 70 Next
Blog at WordPress.com.
Footer navigation
  • About & Contact
  • Free Software Menu
  • Macs
  • Painting
  • Downloads
  • SilentKnight, Skint, SystHist, silnite, LockRattler & Scrub
  • XProCheck, T2M2, LogUI, Ulbow, blowhole and log utilities
  • Mints: a multifunction utility
  • xattred, SpotTest, Providable, Spotcord, Metamer & xattr tools
  • Versatility & Revisionist
  • DelightEd & Podofyllin
  • Precize, Alifix, UTIutility, Sparsity, alisma, Taccy, Signet
  • System Updates
  • Spundle, Cormorant, Stibium, DropSum, Dintch, Fintch and cintch
  • Virtualisation on Apple silicon
  • Cirrus & Bailiff
  • Text Utilities: Textovert, Disclipper, Nalaprop, Dystextia and others
  • sysctl information
  • Extended attributes (xattrs)
  • 32-bitCheck & ArchiChect
  • Keychains & Permissions
  • PDF
  • VisualLookUpTest
  • Updates
  • Long Reads
  • Mac Troubleshooting Summary
  • Saturday Mac Riddles
  • Last Week on My Mac
  • Painting topics
  • Mac problem-solving
  • M-series Macs
Secondary navigation
  • Search

Begin typing your search above and press return to search. Press Esc to cancel.

  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • The Eclectic Light Company
    • Join 9,113 other subscribers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • The Eclectic Light Company
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...