I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 358. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Thinly dispersed […] | Continue reading
Video and audio don't appear to sync correctly when played back in a macOS VM on an Apple silicon host. Have you noticed the same or similar problems? | Continue reading
Paintings by Blechen, Brendekilde, Tina Blau, William Merritt Chase and Prendergast, of the Villa Borghese, the Prater, Central Park and Prospect Park. | Continue reading
My friend took it to extremes, travelling everywhere with a 30-foot rope in his suitcase. But he was right: would you be able to get to the fire escape? How that applies to problems with the structure of the internal SSD of an Apple silicon Mac. | Continue reading
Paintings by West, Linnell, De Nittis, Fanner, Maitland, Manet, Menzel, Prendergast and Pissarro, of London's Royal Parks, and the Tuileries in Paris. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Thinly dispersed […] | Continue reading
Latest Geekbench performance figures for macOS VMs, and testing of how few cores and how little memory is really needed: could you run a macOS VM usefully on a MacBook Neo? | Continue reading
How optical effects familiar from photography became incorporated into Naturalist paintings, and major painters adopted photography as an art form. | Continue reading
A simple and accessible way of categorising folders, they're stored as extended attributes, and robust. They work best with up to 7 categories, but can confuse with many different text labels. | Continue reading
When you see the same face in a mirror that you presume that figure can also see, despite that being optically impossible. An exploration. | Continue reading
Two common problems with log: all the censored contents, which can make them meaningless, and the sheer number of entries. How to use logging preferences to tackle them. | Continue reading
Raphael's ten tapestries for the walls of the Sistine Chapel, many cartoons painted by Francisco Goya for the Royal Factory in Santa Bárbara, paintings by Edward Burne-Jones for tapestries woven for William Morris, and more. | Continue reading
Virtualising macOS, Linux and Windows on Intel Macs has been relatively straightforward, and device support left to the developer. That won't work for Apple silicon Macs. This explains what happens, its strengths and limitations as a result. | Continue reading
Apple has released an update to XProtect for all versions of macOS, bringing it to version 5341; the […] | Continue reading
A brief overview of the plot of Tasso's epic, complete with links to all the articles, and a selection of the best of paintings. | Continue reading
Although easy to add to documents, Finder comments work strangely, and can prove fragile. They can also be used to conceal malicious code by steganography, but there are better options. | Continue reading
One of the founding American masters, sole pupil of the founder of the Hudson River School, his landscapes are meticulously detailed and painted in the studio from many plein air oil sketches. | Continue reading
I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 357. Here are my solutions to them. 1: John’s afterword […] | Continue reading
Everything you need to know about how to have fun with this Easter Egg, which is even better in more recent versions of macOS. | Continue reading
Suddenly popular in paintings from around 1880, the story of Pandora and her box brought many interpretations, and remains a story of our time. | Continue reading
For the first 17 years, Macs got by perfectly well without a command line. Apple's server admin apps featured extensive GUIs, and saved admins from using Terminal. But now even Apple tells folk to practise for ClickFix. | Continue reading
A strange ancient Greek myth of the creation of woman was hardly ever painted until the 19th century. Even then, only one depicted the crux of the story until it became popular late in the century. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: John’s afterword […] | Continue reading
How AFP and SMB enable access to shares on servers, early problems with SMB on Macs, printer access, and limitations with APFS special files. | Continue reading
The talaria fashioned from gold by Vulcan for Hermes as messenger of the gods, and lent to Perseus when he was sent to bring back the head of Medusa/ | Continue reading
Introduced in Mac OS X 10.4 to extend resource forks, they have flourished since. Explains their storage, how they persist or don't, with an appendix explaining their flags. | Continue reading
How the introduction of secular, free and mandatory education in the French Third Republic was depicted at the time, from cradle to doctorate. | Continue reading
We are under warning that macOS 27 is likely to remove support for AFP, and lately some additional requirements for connection to certain servers. This explains how these could affect you. | Continue reading
Unusual use and manipulation of reflections by Ferdinand Hodler in his Parallelism, and by Gustav Klimt painting through a telescope on his summer holidays. | Continue reading
Since macOS Mojave, macOS has had deep support for natural languages beyond English. Although Nalaprop demonstrates some of its features, it could do much more now. Should it? | Continue reading
Designs for stained glass windows by Koloman Moser, and paintings of them by Millais, Helleu, Odilon Redon, Sichulski, Lhermitte and Rochegrosse. | Continue reading
Introduced in Catalina to enable 'privacy by user intent', these contain header-UUID pairs, with the UUID identifying the app granted access. But UUIDs change with every restart, so can't be used to track access prior to the current session. | Continue reading
A summary of the stories and fate of the 6 leading characters: Godfrey of Bouillon, Prince Tancred, Rinaldo, Clorinda, Princess Erminia and Armida. | Continue reading
I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 356. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Lowing and […] | Continue reading
How can Privacy & Security show that access by an app to a protected folder is disabled, yet the app can still access that folder? With additional details of privacy controls over storage locations. | Continue reading
Paintings by Helen Allingham, Willard Metcalf, Pierre Bonnard, JW Waterhouse, Nikolai Astrup, and others. | Continue reading
Nothing in macOS protects you from fraudulent apps. They're commonly notarised, and some have even been supplied from the App Store. Firewalls and keeping macOS up to date are also no protection. Here's practical advice. | Continue reading
Paintings by Samuel Palmer, Millais, Millet, Alfred Sisley, Vincent van Gogh. Carl Larsson, Sérusier, LA Ring and others. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Lowing and […] | Continue reading
Introduced 15 years ago, what was originally a Recovery partition has become complex in Intel Macs, and completely different in Apple silicon, with a fallback. | Continue reading
Masks as symbols of theatre and drama, in ancient times, from Noh theatre in Japonisme, in masked balls, and in carnivals. | Continue reading
Revisits a bug in the Timers feature in the Clock app in Tahoe 26.1. This led to the feature failing to load or work. How has it changed in 26.4.1? | Continue reading
Paintings of urban poverty were acclaimed at the Salon during the 1880s. A small selection from Fernand Pelez, Antonino Gandolfo (Catania, Sicily), Christian Krohg (Norway) and others. | Continue reading
How Intel Macs with T2 chips, and Apple silicon Macs can be rescued from the apparently dead by connecting them to another Mac in DFU mode. | Continue reading
Although he painted many reflections, Paul Cézanne's are the most enigmatic, as they almost all have substantial anomalies according to optical principles. | Continue reading
Seven different locations examined to see how privacy protection is applied to them, including control over writing files, and listing folder contents. Some surprises too, and a new version of Insent. | Continue reading
Popular in ancient times, those in Ravenna inspired Klimt. Luc-Olivier Merson and Elihu Vedder created their own, Sichulski imitated them, and Signac used similar patches of paint. | Continue reading
If you want to dual-boot between Sequoia and Tahoe, for example, there are four main options, including external bootable disks and VMs. These tips help you choose which is most suitable.. | Continue reading