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Was that a crash, freeze, panic, or spinning beachball?

Knowing the difference helps you work out what to do in response, and how to work out what went wrong.

November 30, 2019 Macs, Technology

Apple has released macOS Mojave 10.14.6 Supplemental Update

Apple has just released macOS Mojave 10.14.6 Supplemental Update, which it says addresses problems in some Macs when […]

August 1, 2019 Macs, Technology

Should you leave your Mac running all the time?

What are the benefits to leaving your Mac running all the time? And the costs? Which should you choose to do?

May 14, 2019 Macs, Technology

Tackling sleep and wake problems

From hardware diagnostics to pmset and resetting the SMC, all you need to know about diagnosing wake and sleep problems.

May 9, 2019 Macs, Technology

Sleep, Wake, and Startup: Hardware and ACPI

Shutdown cause codes, wake reasons, ACPI, and sleep states – diagnosing problems from hardware events.

August 8, 2017 Macs, Technology

Known bugs in macOS Sierra 10.12.6: an incomplete summary

Lists bugs in macOS itself, not those manifest in third-party software running on it. Please report and I’ll keep the list updated.

July 21, 2017 Macs, Technology

Exploring Sierra 10.12.5 sleep and wake in the log, 2 DAS and CTS

Sleep interrupts the scheduling and dispatch of background tasks. Here’s how it looks in the dispatching systems.

June 16, 2017 Macs, Technology

Exploring Sierra 10.12.5 sleep and wake in the log 1

Waypoints to help you navigate through Sierra’s log entries when putting a Mac to sleep, and when waking up from sleep.

June 5, 2017 Macs, Technology

Consolation 2.2b3 is now available, to improve handling of defaults

Some subtle improvements which make it much easier to use when working with saved logarchives. A final release candidate?

June 2, 2017 Macs, Technology

Consolation 2.2b2 can capture, open and analyse logarchives

This makes it much easier to perform repeated analysis and search on logs captured to cover important events, such as crashes and problems.

June 1, 2017 Macs, Technology

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