How operating frequencies of CPU cores used by the latest base M5 chip compare with those from previous families in the M series, and what that means. Complete with updated tables for all current chips. | Continue reading
Active in Haarlem and Amsterdam during and after Poussin's later years, his depiction of trees is outstanding, and his old oaks are lifelike. | Continue reading
Study how the four key timestamps of a file change when you create, edit, preview the file, using Dropera. | Continue reading
Ink, soot suspended in water, making the transition from drawings into paintings. The secret of shellac. Casein, originally from sour milk, as a binder in some vast murals. | Continue reading
A call for help: can you help complete this table of all the CPU core frequencies of M-series chips? M3 Ultra and M5 values are requested, please. | Continue reading
The horrific story of a count locked away to starve to death, who turned to cannibalism. How that came to be used falsely in Lavater's physiognomy. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 331. Here are my solutions to them. 1: A […] | Continue reading
First we repaired disk permissions, until SIP made that impossible. Then we reset user permissions until Apple withdrew that advice. Next we ran repairHomePermissions in Recovery. Should you still use that? | Continue reading
After the Paris Commune, Pissarro returned to discover most of his life's work had been destroyed, but he and Sisley continued to paint in Louveciennes and its surrounds. | Continue reading
In macOS Mojave, Apple changed the way that Spotlight indexes the contents of plain text files. That introduced a bug that prevents indexing of any of the contents of files starting with certain characters. For many Macs, that bug won't ever be fixed. | Continue reading
In the summer of 1869, Renoir was living at his parents' house in Louveciennes, and Monet was living near Bougival. Together they painted the works that set out the manifesto of Impressionism. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: A red […] | Continue reading
For the last 10 years, macOS has relied on Uniform Type Identifiers to recognise different types of files, for opening in apps, QuickLook, Spotlight and in other features. | Continue reading
Popularly intended to transform base metals like lead into gold, alchemy relied on special glassware like alembics, and is included with other 'dark arts' in paintings. | Continue reading
Two confounding factors to take into account when interpreting timestamps on files: what updates the Last opened time, and access via QuickLook. | Continue reading
A stolen painting of a concert, a girl with a pearl earring, ladies with a maid and writing a letter, an astronomer and a geographer. | Continue reading
From Ventura (if not earlier) to Tahoe, Spotlight appears unable to index text files that start with two specific letters. Although those are exceedingly rare, this could still catch you out. | Continue reading
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