Little used for 400 years, in the 19th century painters extended their scenes by including reflections seen in a mirror. Here are some significant examples. | Continue reading
How to discover what went wrong when a document doesn't show the right thumbnail, but a generic icon instead. How to dive deeper to solve problems with 3rd party thumbnail and preview generators. | Continue reading
Apple has released its regular weekly update to XProtect for all versions of macOS, bringing it to version […] | Continue reading
From red-figure paintings on Greek pottery, through tin-glazed maiolica, to painted porcelain and enamelled earthenware, more painting in three dimensions. | Continue reading
Most apps save settings in their preferences file managed by cfprefsd as the UserDefaults server. Here's how to avoid problems that can cause, and how to use the defaults command. | Continue reading
Born son of the King of Athens, the god Poseidon, and Princess Aethra, his first task was to find his father's sandals and sword, and take them to Athens, where Medea tried to poison him. | Continue reading
I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 360. Here are my solutions to them. 1: With parents […] | Continue reading
Generating icons for display as thumbnails, and previews of documents, depend on speed of delivery and icons as faithful as possible for their size. How QuickLook achieves this in Tahoe. | Continue reading
The botanical painter Marianne North, Val Prinsep who was born in Kolkata and painting for Queen Victoria, Colin Campbell Cooper, and Nicholas Roerich, who died there in 1947. | Continue reading
Soon after introducing iCloud and iCloud Drive, Apple changed the way most metadata was handled to ensure it was synced up to the cloud. Recently this has been reversed, and little metadata is now synced. Was this an accident or intentional? What is the workaround? | Continue reading
From William Hodges in around 1780, Edward Lear nearly a century later, and Vasily Vereshchagin at about the same time, views of the Taj Mahal and the Himalayan mountains. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: With parents […] | Continue reading
From the first image thumbnails around 35 years ago, the Mac has delivered better thumbnails and previews of documents, most recently using QuickLook. Here's how it works, and how it can fail. | Continue reading
Around 1890, two aspiring painters passed through a phase of Naturalism: in Spain, Joaquín Sorolla, and in Sweden, Anders Zorn, both on their way to become masters. | Continue reading
Traces the path of metadata from inside a PDF document and its extended attributes, to those in Spotlight's indexes and displayed in the Finder. Only a third survived that journey. | Continue reading
After reaching a peak around 1909, in 1916 Bonnard suddenly stopped painting mirror play, and didn't resume until the 1930s. | Continue reading
This new version adds a drag-and-drop window to inspect the metadata of files using mdimport and mdls. | Continue reading
For over 40 years, Bonnard used mirror play in many of his paintings of intimate domestic scenes, often involving his partner Marthe as model. | Continue reading
Version support built into macOS doesn't preserve versions as well as it could. Here's how to use Versatility to ensure you don't lose versions in iCloud, moving a file, or backing up. | Continue reading
Apple has released an update to XProtect for all versions of macOS, bringing it to version 5344. Version […] | Continue reading
Classical and mediaeval friezes and sculpture were often painted or polychrome, a practice that remained popular for religious statues, and sculptures made by some painters. | Continue reading
A summary of iCloud Drive syncing of attributes, data, extended attributes, document versions (complex), Spotlight index content, and QuickLook previews. | Continue reading
The update bringing macOS Tahoe to version 26.5 is modest in size and, apart from its security fixes, […] | Continue reading
Apple has released the update to bring macOS Tahoe to version 26.5, and security updates for Sequoia and […] | Continue reading
Perseus kills the sea monster, and marries Andromeda as his reward. Phineus and his friends turn nasty at their wedding, and are turned to stone, and how the couple became constellations. | Continue reading
I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 359. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Could in […] | Continue reading
What happens when you move a file with metadata attached in extended attributes to iCloud Drive? Which of those are preserved when you access that file from another Mac? | Continue reading
Was it Dante's Beatrice or Rossetti's Lizzie? Paintings by Rossetti, Henry Holiday, Marie Spartali Stillman, Odilon Redon and others. | Continue reading
Demonstrated 10 years ago as a major new feature in APFS, and capable of blazingly fast rollback preserving data including document versions, snapshots still aren't fully accessible or documented. | Continue reading
Dante's beloved Beatrice seen in paintings by Washington Allston, William Blake, William Dyce, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and others. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Could in […] | Continue reading
For over a decade, cloud services did their own thing. Apple then encouraged them to use a new File Provider framework, and led the way with iCloud Drive. | Continue reading
Paintings from Erik Henningsen, Léon Lhermitte, Émile Friant, and Jean-Eugène Buland in the 1890s, towards the end of Naturalist painting. | Continue reading
Use the mdimport and mdls commands to dump full information about all the metadata attributes found for a file, and those indexed by Spotlight. | Continue reading
From Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini Wedding to Velázquez's Las Meninas, how the skilful use of mirrors can add to a painting in mirror play. | Continue reading
Can be a Mac-saver if you have problems when your backup storage isn't available. You don't need to run Time Machine to make them, and can roll back in Recovery, as shown here. | Continue reading
Named after the red lead pigment used to outline them, these illustrate luxury manuscript books. Examples from around 400 CE through accounts of the Crusades, to Aesop's fables in 1530. | Continue reading
Two significant indexing errors when processing RTF and image files caused search failures. Display in the Finder is also insufficient to make these xattrs as useful as they could be. | Continue reading
Apple has released an update to XProtect for all versions of macOS, bringing it to version 5342. As […] | Continue reading
The story of the greatest slayer of monsters, son of Zeus and Danaë, who was sent on a mission to bring back the severed head of Medusa, then stopped in Ethiopia to rescue a princess who was about to be eaten by a sea monster. | Continue reading
How to select the most appropriate way of storing metadata, limitations of Finder Comments and Tags, which extended attributes are best, and which utilities to edit and manage them. | Continue reading
Following another visit to Ecuador and Colombia in 1857, he painted his masterwork 'The Heart of the Andes', which had to be viewed using opera glasses to appreciate its intricate detail. | Continue reading
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