Apple has just released an additional out-of-cycle update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5321. As usual, it […] | Continue reading
Finding form with his famous compositions of figures lit by daylight from windows on the left. His use of maps, curtains, and his unique depth of field effects. | Continue reading
You've tried entering your password, but it doesn't work. Should you try guessing? As that imposes increasing waiting times of up to 8 hours, maybe not. Try this instead. | Continue reading
Apple has just released its weekly update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5320. As usual, it doesn’t […] | Continue reading
Modern and mixed media such as wax crayons, pencils, oil pastels, oil sticks and oil bars have become increasingly popular, although many age poorly and most have to be kept under glass. | Continue reading
How to create a new file with a creation date 4 months ago and versions dating back to 3 months before that Mac even existed. All without changing any clocks. | Continue reading
Fraudsters, the incestuous Myrrha, mother of Adonis, a counterfeiter, Potiphar's wife, then the treacherous who betrayed their kin. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 330. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Sounds […] | Continue reading
Displays emoji to indicate the type of each log entry, improves export as Rich Text, and augments fields when copying entries. | Continue reading
Lawrence and his second wife Laura were successful painters, and taught their older daughter Anna to paint. He was knighted, and after his death was interred with great honour in St Paul's Cathedral. | Continue reading
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malware into Mac boot flash storage was demonstrated, and shortly afterwards many Macs were found to be running outdated firmware.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've come a long way since. | Continue reading
1869 was a disastrous year for Lawrence: his wife died suddenly, leaving him to care for their daughters, and he also had a medical problem that defied diagnosis. He went to London and fell in love at first sight. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Sounds like […] | Continue reading
The T2 chip was designed for FileVault, and it comes at no cost to that and in Apple silicon Macs. Here's how it works, and why everyone should enable it. | Continue reading
Drawing the chariot of Bacchus/Dionysus, fighting with Christian martyrs, in a Paris zoo, or torrential rain in a tropical storm, or being hunted to be turned into a skin. | Continue reading
Apparently based on Mach absolute time, log entry times are converted to wallclock times. This exposes them to the vagaries of time zones, seasonal adjustments, and periodic wallclock adjustments. Here's how all that works, and can confuse. | Continue reading
Trained in Germany because there was no academy in Norway, he soon developed themes of poverty, social injustice, and Norway's independence. A major influence on Edvard Munch. | Continue reading
Why is that app slow to launch, unable to update itself, generally behaving erratically, and often crashes? Could it be stuck in app translocation? Here's how to tell, and how to fix it. | Continue reading
Apple has just released its weekly update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5319. As usual, it doesn’t […] | Continue reading
Washerwoman below stairs, a kitchen maid, haggling in the market, selling fish door-to-door, pouring milk, farming families, and drinking. | Continue reading
How to check secure boot, SIP, Gatekeeper/XProtect, its SSV, FileVault, macOS and its firmware, and XProtect Remediator scans. | Continue reading
Tiny jewels fashioned from blobs of white paint, Rembrandt's textured paint layers. Turner's scratchings, and van Gogh's textured Wheat Field with Cypresses, seen in fine detail. | Continue reading
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. | Continue reading
First a centaur killed by Hercules, then souls being tormented by reptiles, those with fraudulent lives burning in hell, and dismembered parts of those who inflamed dissent. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 329. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Two […] | Continue reading
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 translocation. | Continue reading
In 1865, Bazille, Monet, Renoir, Sisley and Cézanne started painting outdoors in front of the motif in the forest, and so Impressionism began. | Continue reading
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 black. | Continue reading
After some early visits, young landscape painters started to visit the forest in 1829, and became the Barbizon School. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Two credentials […] | Continue reading
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. | Continue reading
Lycaon transformed into a wolf, the origin of later werewolves, the she-wolf who fed Romulus and Remus, a shepherd defending his flock, the wolf of Agubbio, the fable of the wolf and the lamb, and others. | Continue reading
If your virtualiser allows you to run 2 macOS VMs at the same time, and to give them different MAC addresses, it's easy to migrate from one to the other as explained here. | Continue reading
Series showing the sailing of smaller vessels, and ship, then a further series of a model getting dressed and leaving the studio, and one last painting. | Continue reading
If you're lucky, it should restart into Recovery Assistant. Otherwise advice on how to manage a boot loop or freeze, and how to disable 3rd party kernel extensions. | Continue reading
Apple has released its weekly update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5318. As usual, it doesn’t release […] | Continue reading
Unusual paintings to add novelty to a collection, with maritimes, river views, cloudscapes, Amsterdam burning, and a couple of distinctive 'negatives'. | Continue reading
First Aid in Disk Utility, or fsck_apfs in Terminal, have given warnings or errors with id numbers. How do you work out which file or folder that refers to? | Continue reading
Painting using a palette knife, by Courbet, Renoir and Anna Althea Hills. fingerpainting by Leonardi, and ling brushes in the hands of Whistler and Sorolla. | Continue reading
First Aid in Disk Utility, or running fsck_apfs in Terminal, return warnings or errors on one of your Mac's volumes. Here's what to do next. | Continue reading
Barrators, who traded in public office and bribed courts, hypocrites whose clothes are weighted with lead, and thieves who are stuck in a pit of snakes. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 328. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Click […] | Continue reading
The four types of log entry, all the fields they can contain, and those they are likely to include, shown in the order and colour scheme used in LogUI. Censorship and how to disable it, with a signed profile to do so. | Continue reading
More paintings from Louis Janmot's epic Poem of the Soul, Walter Crane's concise Bridge of Life, and a selection from Edvard Munch's second Frieze of Life, exhibited in 1902. | Continue reading
macOS VMs can have iCloud, iCloud Drive, Messages, FaceTime, FileVault and many shared folders, but still can't sign into Apple service like the App Store. But you can resize their VMs. | Continue reading
Series of paintings showing the journey of life are unusual. Here are excerpts from Poussin's Seven Sacraments, Thomas Cole's Voyage of Life, and the start of Louis Janmot's 34-image epic. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: 2: 3: […] | Continue reading
How APFS is the first Mac native file system to have true inodes and inode numbers. What they are, and how you can use them in volume groups and different types of file link. | Continue reading