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Taming the App Store: getting timely updates

How can you ensure the App Store offers you all the updates which it has available? Here’s a simple method which works around its limitations.

October 6, 2021 Macs, Technology

SilentKnight: how to install just one update, rather than all

What to do when SilentKnight offers you large macOS updates, or updates which you don’t want to install just yet, and other problems.

September 28, 2021 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Silence isn’t golden

As Apple silently drops Mojave’s support, it releases a security update to iOS 12, which was originally released a week before Mojave. And its entire AirPort range also seems unsupported now.

September 26, 2021 Macs, Technology

Podofyllin version 1.1 introduces lightweight bookmarks

New ‘marks’, lightweight bookmarks to make navigating large documents easier. They aren’t written out to the PDF document, though, leaving it intact.

September 25, 2021 General, Language, Macs, Technology, Updates

Apple has pushed an update to XProtect

Apple has just pushed an update to the data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number to […]

September 24, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

The silence of the BoMs: why you don’t know what macOS updates

Before Catalina, each macOS update wrote a full transcript of all it installed to a BoM file, which you can inspect. That stopped, without any substitute.

September 24, 2021 Macs, Technology

Apple has released Catalina Security Update 2021-006

Apple has today release a further security update for macOS Catalina, number 2021-006. This is an important and […]

September 23, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

How long does Apple support macOS?

Unofficially, each major version of macOS gets a year’s full support, with bug and security fixes, then 2 years of security updates. Is that how it works?

September 22, 2021 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: the macOS update problem

Apple seemed reluctant to provide a full installer and IPSW image for 11.6. How does that affect those staying with Big Sur for the next year of security updates?

September 19, 2021 Macs, Technology

Biggest Sur by far

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With Big Sur 11.6 reaching the end of the year’s cycle, it’s time to take stock of just how much we had to download to keep it up to date.

September 15, 2021 Macs, Technology

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