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Code signing for the concerned: 3 Signing an app

How to perform ad hoc signing, signing with a personal certificate, and set signing up in Xcode.

January 17, 2019 Macs, Technology

Code signing for the concerned: 2 Creating a personal certificate

How can you create your own personal certificate suitable for signing your apps? Uses Certificate Assistant, and free of cost.

January 16, 2019 Macs, Technology

Code signing for the concerned: 1 Why?

Should you use ad hoc signing, or make your own personal certificate? Why would you want to sign a script or app you have made?

January 15, 2019 Macs, Technology

Making documents look good in both appearance modes

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When you need to create a document which displays properly in both modes, Rich Text is the answer – here’s how to get it right first time.

November 14, 2018 Language, Macs, Technology

Dark Delight: getting the best from Dark Mode

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I was sceptical of Dark Mode, but have been trying it out for more than a week now. And for me, it works. But watch for the Flashlight Effect.

October 19, 2018 Macs, Technology

Performing keyhole surgery on Info.plist

Adding support for Mojave’s new privacy system is mandatory for apps which need to access protected data. How easy is that?

September 22, 2018 Macs, Technology

Preparing to upgrade to Mojave: Scripting, commands, and development

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Advice on preparing for and using Mojave for all who go beyond using standard off-the-shelf apps – scripting, automating, building from source, or full-blown Xcode development.

September 14, 2018 Macs, Technology

Mojave’s privacy protection is complex and will crash innocent apps

Giving an app Full Disk Access doesn’t. The only way to give an app access to some protected data is by trying to access that data, but when macOS crashes that app, the user is stuffed.

August 27, 2018 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Quantum mechanics and Mojave

Doesn’t writing so much to the unified log result in performance penalties? So how can Apple expect us to use the log and Signposts to measure performance?

August 19, 2018 Macs, Technology

Working around a bug recently introduced into Mojave: When Signposts point the wrong way

At first I thought it was my mistake. Then it looked like a simple error in the interface. But this bug in Mojave’s signposts is more complex. Here’s a workaround.

August 16, 2018 Macs, Technology

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