A call for help: can you help complete this table of all the CPU core frequencies of M-series chips? M3 Ultra and M5 values are requested, please.| The Eclectic Light Company
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 331. Here are my solutions to them. 1: A […]| The Eclectic Light Company
First we repaired disk permissions, until SIP made that impossible. Then we reset user permissions until Apple withdrew that advice. Next we ran repairHomePermissions in Recovery. Should you still use that?| The Eclectic Light Company
In macOS Mojave, Apple changed the way that Spotlight indexes the contents of plain text files. That introduced a bug that prevents indexing of any of the contents of files starting with certain characters. For many Macs, that bug won't ever be fixed.| The Eclectic Light Company
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: A red […]| The Eclectic Light Company
For the last 10 years, macOS has relied on Uniform Type Identifiers to recognise different types of files, for opening in apps, QuickLook, Spotlight and in other features.| The Eclectic Light Company
Ten years ago, a firmware worm that could have inserted malware into Mac boot flash storage was demonstrated, and shortly afterwards many Macs were found to be running outdated firmware. We’v…| The Eclectic Light Company
Apple has just released its weekly update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5319. As usual, it doesn’t release information about what security issues this update might add or change. This v…| The Eclectic Light Company
How to combine the time of interest with waypoints to reduce 100,000 log entries to just a handful, and discover what you’re looking for in the log.| The Eclectic Light Company
Whether a quarantined and notarized app undergoes translocation, Tahoe doesn’t run XProtect checks to determine if it’s malicious. And how to tell when an app is running from translocat…| The Eclectic Light Company
All of us rely on tone (brightness, lightness) to interpret what we see. Visual artists have gone to great lengths in tonal modelling, but macOS Tahoe offers only bleached-out white or blacked-out …| The Eclectic Light Company
Until Sequoia, it was simply downloaded and installed as any other software update. Since then it has changed frequently and its behaviour can now confuse.| The Eclectic Light Company
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 328. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Click for a solution Angels Schwabe’s painting shows a chain of angels emerging from a bel…| The Eclectic Light Company
From Illustrator in 1987, Mac-only until 1989, through Photoshop in 1990, Mac-only until 1992, to InDesign, Dreamweaver and the dreaded Flash.| The Eclectic Light Company
Used by two of XProtect’s malware detection features, Yara rules are valuable way to check whether files satisfy a logical condition, and more.| The Eclectic Light Company
A meta-search for Apple’s patents on search, and turning the incessant log chatter of RunningBoard to our advantage in following uninstrumented apps.| The Eclectic Light Company
Remove the AI bloatware from Logitech’s mouse driver| The Robservatory
