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July 2, 2018

Decrypting an APFS volume from the Terminal

I’ve been playing about with a Hackintosh desktop running High Sierra, but run into an interesting problem – the FileVault Preboot loader which asks you for the password to decrypt the APFS volume doesn’t recognise the USB keyboard by default. Apparently there are ways to fix this by building the necessary drivers and inserting them into the Preboot volume, but as...

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August 19, 2014

Missing Junk mailbox in Apple Mail

When setting up a new MacBook Pro recently, I was impressed that all of my mail account settings were synced over via iCloud, but somewhat surprised and confused to find that the “Junk” mailbox for all accounts was missing. I couldn’t find the “Junk” mailbox anywhere – it wasn’t in the list of special folders (Drafts, Sent, Trash etc.) with...

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October 5, 2011

RIP Steve Jobs

RIP Steve Jobs, you have truly changed the face of both computing and society in general. Few people have had such a great and positive impact on the world as you did. You will be sorely missed. Apple have a brief tribute to the great man over at http://www.apple.com/stevejobs/

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November 17, 2010

Apple iTunes quality checks

Some time ago I purchased Mythbusters series 6 and 7 on the iTunes store and downloaded several gigabytes of episodes. I was watching one of the last episodes yesterday and it reliably skipped significantly at a couple of points with a complete loss of audio and video for 10 seconds or so. I managed to finish the episode and more...

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Tag: Apple

Decrypting an APFS volume from the Terminal

Missing Junk mailbox in Apple Mail

RIP Steve Jobs

Apple iTunes quality checks