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Last Week on My Mac: Spinning plates

Seven burning problems, from encrypted login keychains to problems updating XProtect, have turned the last week into a plate-spinner’s nightmare..

September 27, 2026 Macs, Technology

Apple has just released an update to XProtect for macOS Sequoia and later

Apple has just released its regular weekly update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5362. However, this week’s […]

September 26, 2026 Macs, Technology, Updates

LogUI 1.1 build 90 fixes a menu glitch in macOS 27

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Update fixes a cosmetic glitch where the items in the Search menu aren’t shown correctly in Golden Gate.

September 23, 2026 Macs, Technology, Updates

Apple has released an update to XProtect Remediator

Apple has released an update to XProtect Remediator for all macOS from Catalina onwards, to version 163. The […]

September 18, 2026 Macs, Technology, Updates

How did Golden Gate affect free disk space?

For the last 38 days, I have been measuring free and used space in my Mac’s boot container and its backup storage. Here’s what has happened, and how upgrading to macOS 27 changed it.

September 18, 2026 Macs, Technology

Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS

Apple has just released its regular update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5360, for all versions of […]

September 17, 2026 Macs, Technology, Updates

Apple has released macOS Golden Gate, and security updates to Tahoe 26.7, Sequoia 15.8

Apple has now released the first public version of macOS 27.0 Golden Gate, together with security updates taking […]

September 14, 2026 Macs, Technology, Updates

Which of my apps for macOS Golden Gate?

List of 37 of my free apps that should be compatible with macOS Golden Gate, and will be supported for it, plus 5 command tools.

September 12, 2026 Macs, Technology, Updates

Prepare to update or upgrade macOS

Golden Gate, Tahoe 26.7 and Sequoia 15.8 are due to be released on Monday. What preparations should you make to update or upgrade your Mac?

September 10, 2026 Macs, Technology

Logistician version 1.5 fixes a crashing bug

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Version 1.4 can crash when trying to display a Chart view for Signpost or HighVolume log files with less than 6 processes. This update fixes that.

September 7, 2026 Macs, Technology, Updates

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