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Just half an hour's walk from here are chalk downs from where we can see the English Channel coast from Durlston Head in Dorset to Selsey Bill in Sussex, a stretch of over fifty miles. This weekend I celebrate the northern shore of the English Channel, st

Here are this weekend's Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Five flavours, a balanced arm worthy of George Carwardine, and a Retina 5K display. 2: Blueberry or tangerine clamshell with airport and a handle. 3: Che

Last Monday I released a first version of DeltaFree, an app intended to help you work out how large your Mac's backup storage should be. It does this by displaying the rate of growth in the size of your backups over time. Now that I have early data from i

Anything can happen, but so long as you have a recent backup you should be able fix the problems and get back up and running again. Here's how.

Trimming ensures an SSD can write data as fast as it can read it. Although most SSDs should be Trimmed when they're mounted, if you're unsure, here's simple test to tell whether a…

macOS Sequoia and Tahoe have changed the way Gatekeeper and XProtect are controlled. Can a user disable them, and if so, how? And how can you check whether both are enabled?

How macOS makes the association between file types and apps for the Finder and GUI, using UTIs and their associated data including filename extensions. Why clashes occur, and how they're reso…

DAS and CTS are largely responsible for work by E cores. DAS typically submits more than 700 activities for scheduling, including those for Time Machine backups, which have changed in Sonoma and la…

All it required was the command bless, until that was undone by SIP. Since the T2's secure boot, it has become steadily more complex, and now is only really possible from the internal SSD.

Viable - create and run macOS virtual machines on Apple silicon Macs Takes an IPSW image, available from Apple or downloaded in the app, and creates a virtual machine from it. Runs those virt…