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Why clicking on some Apple links fails: URIs and ITMSS

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You click on a link to get Apple software from the App Store, but it doesn’t work. Why not? What can you do to work around this?

October 2, 2020 Macs, Technology

How to unshorten a URL

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Don’t trust those bit.ly and tinyurl.com shortened links, as they could take you somewhere nasty. This utility lets you check them out in safety.

April 18, 2020 Macs, Technology

Is there a bug in macOS 10.14 and later, testing whether files are writable?

When a file’s permissions are set to allow the user to write to it, but an app testing whether the file is writable is told that it isn’t.

March 4, 2020 Macs, Technology

28 years after Unicode, we still can’t handle accents: PDF + macOS + URL = chaos

Open a PDF document, select a URL within it and Copy. Then paste it into a webpage for publication. Simple – but the URL then broke. Why?

June 20, 2019 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Quick copying makes Precize 1.1 more efficient

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Adds quick copying to 6 key values, making them much easier and more efficient to paste into other apps, and fixes a bug in Save.

May 29, 2018 Macs, Technology

Precize version 1 is now released, with an improved document window, extensive Help book, and more

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Provides a unique collection of info, including volfs path, inode number, extended attribute and total sizes, Base-64 encoded Bookmark, and more.

May 26, 2018 Macs, Technology

Inspect the deepest details of your files with Precize 1.0b6

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New version integrates Bookmark resolution, preview, etc. and has detailed reporting. Runs on El Cap to High Sierra, HFS+ and APFS.

May 15, 2018 Macs, Technology

APFS, File Reference URLs, inodes and Finder Syncs

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Why wasn’t a Finder Sync extension working properly? What’s the difference between volfs and FileReferenceURLs, and how have they changed in APFS?

May 9, 2018 Macs, Technology

Scripting in Swift: Checking free disk space

Robust example Swift code for checking the free space available on a volume. A good quick check to run before trying to write out anything hefty.

February 5, 2018 Macs, Technology

Easy access to xattrs from Swift 4: Martin R’s URL extension

Extension functions for the URL class which provide full access to xattrs without leaving the comfort of Swift 4.

December 12, 2017 Macs, Technology, xattr

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