From Switcher and MultiFinder, with Process Manager and Thread Manager in Classic Mac OS, to Pthreads, NSThreads, and Grand Central Dispatch.| The Eclectic Light Company
If you have a Mac Studio M3 Ultra and want to upgrade it to run macOS 26.0 Tahoe, then I’m afraid you’re going to have wait for Apple to build a new release that will install on your Ma…| The Eclectic Light Company
10 posts published by hoakley during September 2025| 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
10 posts published by hoakley during August 2025| 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
Dire warnings of the consequences of Google’s answer engine resulting in over-exploitation of the web and its exhaustion. It’s time to stand up and declare what’s written by a hum…| The Eclectic Light Company
How your Mac can use less energy and power, run its battery down less, generate less heat, and keep its P cores for the work you want it to do for you.| The Eclectic Light Company
Don’t rely on being able to use any Apple installer package unless it has been downloaded recently: its certificate is about to expire.| The Eclectic Light Company
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…| The Eclectic Light Company
Spundle – create, resize and compact sparse bundles Updated. Simple utility to create sparse bundles of any maximum size, choose from six different file systems, and custom band sizes. Also r…| The Eclectic Light Company
10 posts published by hoakley during April 2023| The Eclectic Light Company
This article lists the firmware versions of Macs which have been successfully updated to run macOS 12.7.6. Apple doesn’t provide an official list of the current firmware versions which should…| The Eclectic Light Company
This article lists the firmware versions of Macs which have been successfully updated to run macOS 11.7.10. Apple doesn’t provide an official list of the current firmware versions which shoul…| The Eclectic Light Company
macOS 10.15 Catalina brings EFI firmware updates for all supported models, and subsequent updates have changed those for most models too. This article lists the firmware versions of Macs which have…| The Eclectic Light Company
Apple doesn’t provide an official list of the current EFI firmware versions which should be installed on each model of Mac. Until 30 October 2018, it provided usable version numbers in System…| The Eclectic Light Company
How to check it, what the current version is, what to do about any problems. All your questions answered – even on ethernet firmware now.| The Eclectic Light Company
Classic Mac OS stored a great deal of structured data in the resource forks of its files. Those were edited using ResEdit, an essential tool for every advanced user.| The Eclectic Light Company
hdiutil chpass, the only means of changing passwords for sparse bundles, doesn’t work in macOS Ventura 13.3.1. The workaround requires a VM and 13.1.| The Eclectic Light Company