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Taccy

What’s in an app’s signature?

App signatures are about more than just the certificate. That provides a chain of trust going back to Apple, and supports integrity checks and entitlements.

March 8, 2022 Macs, Technology

Cirrus 1.12 and Taccy 1.14 fix time issues and improve log performance

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Updates recommended for all users. They finally address problems with using 12-hour and other clocks. Log handling code has been refactored to improve performance.

April 23, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Bugs and problems in the log: updates for 6 apps

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Consolation, Ulbow, Mints, T2M2, Cirrus and Taccy all updated to cope with increasing complexity and unreliability of the unified log.

April 6, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Taccy version 1.12 fixes a couple of bugs

Two bugs – one affecting SDK version beyond 11.0, the other changing designation of the Audio privacy entitlement. Now fixed.

January 6, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Code signatures: 2 How to check them

When macOS won’t let you open an app or other software because it warns that it’s (possibly) malware, here’s how to check the signatures.

October 30, 2020 Macs, Technology

Taccy 1.11 is now a Universal App

Now runs native on both Intel and Apple Silicon Macs, from Sierra to Big Sur beta 4.

August 10, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Do you want to explore or diagnose a problem? Try Mints

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New approach to reading logs which enables you to follow conversations between sub-systems and services you’re interested in without messing with predicates.

July 15, 2020 Macs, Technology

Another batch of Universal Apps, and a fixed version of Ulbow

Nine more free apps available as Universal binaries, from Cirrus to xattred.

July 7, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Taccy and ArchiChect now detect apps built for macOS 11.0 Big Sur

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Both apps now detect and report apps which have been built using the 11.0 SDK, and ArchiChect reports non-Intel architectures too.

June 23, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

What would an ARM-based Mac mean to us?

Will they be locked down completely, or run iPadOS? How could they run existing Mac apps? Some potential answers.

June 12, 2020 Macs, Technology

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