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A complete guide to the free software available here: the Menu

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A complete structured guide to all the free utilities available from here, with links to product pages.

June 4, 2019 General, Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Unglamorous utilities

They’re hidden away and never promoted at WWDC, but vitally important to every Mac user. Could you imagine not having Disk Utility, for example?

May 26, 2019 Macs, Technology

Free conversion of text files with textutil

How to convert the text content of text, HTML, RTF, Word .doc and .docx, Webarchive, and other files, for free, using a simple command tool.

March 28, 2018 Macs, Technology

Diving deeper into drive health: SMART utilities compared

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Want to keep an eye on your hard drive(s) and SSD? Worried that your SSD might need replacing? Here are some tools to put your mind at rest.

September 26, 2017 Macs, Technology

Conventions and Standards for Mac Articles

Information for anyone reading articles about Macs here, and an introduction to dealing with their problems.

April 17, 2017 Macs, Technology

Introducing Rosettavert: first beta-release of a text encoding conversion tool

Do you want to convert files using non-Unicode text to modern format? Or between the 144 different encodings supported by iconv? Here’s a tool to make that easy.

April 13, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Technology

KeychainCheck 1.2 is now available

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This new version adds a Help Book, Tooltips, and supports window resizing more usefully.

April 1, 2017 Macs, Technology

HelpHelp: first release version now available to fix your Help Books

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No more problems with the ‘wrong’ Help Book: this can now identify and fix those issues. First full release.

March 23, 2017 Macs, Technology

KeychainCheck 1.0: a little tool to check user keychains

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This may help you work out what is going wrong with local keychains in Sierra. Another free tool to spare you from Terminal.

January 13, 2017 Macs, Technology

Making a better app to check your Mac’s security systems

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Porting a 3-line AppleScript hack to Swift 3 in Xcode is not hard. But there’s always a but…

December 13, 2016 Macs, Technology

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