Apple have just pushed out an update to Catalina - the macOS Catalina Supplemental Update. The description is pretty vague; "The macOS Catalina Supplemental Update includes installation and reliability improvements, and is recommended for all users." The update is nearly...
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Wow, Catalina really mixes things up with regard to the file system layout. It also introduces something called firm links, which are not symlinks nor hard links, but something akin to a union mount of two folders. This is used,...
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Adobe have published a list of apps that are 64-bit compatible for macOS. Fix Adobe app 64-bit compatibility errors on macOS Before you upgrade to macOS Catalina, please make sure that ALL of your Adobe Creative Cloud apps are 100%...
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In my last post, outlining the release of Catalina, I covered the process to check for 32-bit apps on your system prior to upgrading. Here's the info as a separate post, just so it might be easier to find. To...
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Apple have released macOS 10.15 Catalina overnight - this is a big update that is going to break a lot of old software, so please be very careful when installing this on a production system. This update is a decent...
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macOS continues to maintain a fully-functional and highly reliable Unix automount system. This system allows us to keep network shared folders mounted on a Mac, and make sure that if the connection drops out, then it gets automatically re-established again...
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I will often open up a page with a lot of links, e.g. Feedly to read the news,  and as I scroll down the page, I like to use ⌘+click to open the links in a new tab. With Firefox,...
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I received this notification from my bank recently, and it's very good advice that really needs to be passed around. It is critical when changing a BSB and Account Number at the request of an email from a supplier, colleague...
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Microsoft have published an excellent article on the Azure Active Directory Identity Blog titled Your Pa$$word doesn't matter. Although it gets pretty technical at times, if you're interested in security, I recommend at least skimming it. If you want my...
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I was setting up a new user on a laptop recently and every time I rebooted the machine, I had to re-enter the wifi password. Aside from being really irritating, there was clearly something wrong. The Mac was running macOS...
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