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OS X blocks more recent versions of Flash Player

Apple has now updated its plugin blocking system for OS X to disable all versions of Flash Player […]

March 28, 2016 Macs, Technology

Why rolling updates are bad practice

Automatic updates? No thanks, I need to brace myself for the next set of fresh bugs and problems.

February 15, 2016 Macs, Technology

Inside the OS X blacklist: XProtect

Perhaps not as effective as one of the better anti-virus apps, it is free and built into OS X.

January 25, 2016 Macs, Technology

Apple updates XProtect anti-malware tool in El Capitan

On 21 January 2016, Apple pushed out a silent update to XProtect, its anti-malware protection software built into […]

January 23, 2016 Macs, Technology

Single Point of Failure

Most systems in everyday life had readily accessible fallbacks that you could rely on when the system of first choice was not available. We seem to have lost those now.

May 19, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

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