The great Thracian bard, and accomplished poet and musician, he could charm the animals with his lyre. But when he married Eurydice she died shortly after the ceremony. | Continue reading
I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 381. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Folder for […] | Continue reading
With macOS 27.1 not being released, dates for routine updates are a bit more complicated. Here are suggestions based on recent cycles, and what to expect in the way of new chips. | Continue reading
A physician, zoologist and ornithologist, and talented painted, he was in Antarctic in 1902-03, then returned in 1910-12, when he died trying to return from the South Pole. | Continue reading
If you delay upgrading to the new version of macOS until its x.3 or x.4 release, will that spare you from most of the bugs and problems? Explored with data from Sequoia and Tahoe. | Continue reading
A naturalist, geologist and painter in watercolours, he emigrated to Australia, where he prospected for gold. In 1860 he left with the Burke and Wills expedition, and died the following April. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Folder for […] | Continue reading
If you've got an Apple silicon Mac running macOS 27, have some fun playing with on-device AI using the fm command tool. Free and completely private. | Continue reading
His first Wanderer appeared in a landscape in 1830, and from then many of his paintings had tiny figures standing with their back to the viewer. Were they self-portraits? | Continue reading
Analysis of bundle counts in /System/Library and bundled apps from Mojave and Catalina to Golden Gate shows how much they've changed over the last 7 years. | Continue reading
With 1 in 20 males having impaired colour vision, and over half the adult population needing spectacles, you'd expect painters to be similar, and there are claims of those who were colour-blind or had other visual problems. Are they reflected in their paintings? | Continue reading
Permissions and granting access by privacy controls are completely different. This explains how Full Disk Access and other privacy settings can't override Unix permissions, and why they must be distinguished. | Continue reading
A selection of these precursors to modern comic books from about 1263 to 1700. Some are based on rectangles, but others are arranged in the round. | Continue reading
All Macs have multiple file-based keychains, and one Data Protection keychain for each user. Their differences are explained, with info on the newest variant introduced this year, together with tools and links. | Continue reading
Apple has just released its regular weekly update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5366, for all Macs. […] | Continue reading
Two species are the pioneers, in the high Arctic and mountains across Europe. Their bark has formed canoes, and their sap is a sugary syrup that can be fermented into alcoholic drinks. | Continue reading
Full Disk Access gives apps and services access to all our most sensitive secrets. Should you grant that to AI agents such as those of Meta's Muse app? | Continue reading
Heracles unwittingly sets up his later death when he thinks the centaur Nessus is trying to abduct his wife Deianira, and shoots him in the back with one of his arrows poisoned with the blood of the Lernean hydra. | Continue reading
I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 380. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Repository service […] | Continue reading
When transferring the contents of Data volumes, or individual accounts, use Migration Assistant rather than copying or restoring. Here's how. | Continue reading
Paintings by Paul Signac, Evelyn De Morgan, Marsden Hartley, Tom Thomson, Egon Schiele, Julian Onderdonk, Paul Nash, and others. | Continue reading
How an AIR reports proofreading, a Siri request about an image of a painting, and image generation in Image Playground, and the first release of AIRer to help you read your own reports. | Continue reading
Paintings by Paulus Potter, George Inness, Claude Monet, Winslow Homer, Alfred Sisley, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, William Merritt Chase, and others. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Repository service […] | Continue reading
Changes to keychains, volume structure, Time Machine, Migration Assistant, and the security command tool that have only recently come to light, six months later. | Continue reading
Little is known of one of the greatest of the Venetian masters, and few of his paintings can be attributed with confidence to his hand. He died of plague in the summer of 1510, aged 32-33. | Continue reading
Tahoe 26.4 broke the copying of login keychains. Apple has at last explained how you can copy them successfully, and what backup software needs to do. Explained in full. | Continue reading
Revived in the 19th century, stories painted by JMW Turner, Camille Corot, Edward Burne-Jones, Ford Madox Brown, Lovis Corinth, Aksel Johannessen and Thomas Hart Benton. | Continue reading
Frustrated trying to read Apple Intelligence Reports? Try this new app that extracts their useful contents, converts dates, and lays them out to make them accessible and understandable. | Continue reading
Scots pines from Northern Europe, a huge umbrella pine in Saint-Tropez, and maritime pines from the Mediterranean coast, painted by Théo van Rysselberghe among others. | Continue reading
In hardware encryption, keys are kept in the Secure Enclave. Software encryption in APFS has no such luxury, just keybags at container and volume level. This explains when they're created. | Continue reading
Apple has released yet another update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5363, for all Macs. As usual […] | Continue reading
After rescuing Hesione from a sea monster, he wrestled with Achelous for the hand of Deianira in marriage, and created the cornucopia. | Continue reading
Apple has overnight released last week’s update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5362, for all Macs. As […] | Continue reading
How to ensure the external disk has you as its Owner, with a LocalPolicy that allows your Mac to use it as a boot disk. When yo avoid using a DFU port, and negotiating keychain problems. | Continue reading
Apple has just released security updates bringing Golden Gate to 27.0.1, Tahoe to 26.7.1, and Sequoia to 15.8.1. […] | Continue reading
Known now for her illustrations, she was a talented watercolour painter who documented country cottages and life in southern England, and was the first woman to be elected to full membership of the Royal Watercolour Society. | Continue reading
I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 379. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Brief peep […] | Continue reading
Details including XProtect, XProtect Remediator, Bastion, Kext Exclude List, Incompatible Apps, MRT, GK Opaque and the mystery GKE that is installed then vanishes. | Continue reading
How two members of the Bloomsbury Group battled with John Singer Sargent and destroyed his reputation for nearly 50 years, and reshaped 20th century painting. | Continue reading
Seven burning problems, from encrypted login keychains to problems updating XProtect, have turned the last week into a plate-spinner's nightmare.. | Continue reading
How the criticism of John Ruskin unintentionally made it practically impossible to paint landscapes in the latter half of the 19th century. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Brief peep […] | Continue reading
How your Siri AI requests remain private even when processed off-device, by PCC. How a simple request becomes a long and elaborate prompt. | Continue reading
Apple has just released its regular weekly update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5362. However, this week’s […] | Continue reading
She started training at the age of 15 in New York, then in Paris, where for a decade she was one of the most successful American painters, but died soon after her return to the USA. | Continue reading
Do you ever run XProtect Remediator manually? If so, the latest version doesn't oblige. You might need to consider a 3rd party malware scanner. | Continue reading
Twenty-three scenes integrated into Memling's Passion, nine into Tintoretto's huge Crucifixion, and three into Poussin's Gathering the Manna. | Continue reading