Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Over 25 gigs burned with a blue laser. 2: A hundred megs or more, but could be nothing, a fas… | Continue reading
Refresh Finder Aliases, explore Unicode normalisation, create rich Rich Text Documents, obfuscate text with Unicode, parse multilingual text, and view and analyse PDF documents. | Continue reading
After a set of 17 lithographs illustrating Goethe's 'Faust', his most famous painting of 'Liberty Leading the People' that was only seen infrequently over the next 40 years. | Continue reading
Adds support for Sonoma, and removes precautions to deal with broken updates from Content Caching servers. | Continue reading
Brunelleschi’s geometry, Masaccio’s technique and vision, Alberti’s initial and popular account, followed by a comprehensive account by Piero della Francesca. | Continue reading
The spinning beachball, a juddery interface, and fans running full pelt: what’s CPU doing in Activity Monitor, and what should you do about it? | Continue reading
The goddess Diana, Selene, the Virgin and Child, or is it just the moon in the sky of a pastoral landscape? Paintings from Bosch to van Gogh. | Continue reading
Four new and improved features for Monterey and Ventura hosts, and two even better ones for Sonoma, including autosizing of the virtual display. | Continue reading
Born in Kharkiv and trained in Moscow, he became a Neo-Primitivist after attending further training in Paris. | Continue reading
Why won’t Ventura let you run a copy of one of its bundled apps, and why does it refuse to run some command tools? | Continue reading
Odysseus is lashed to the mast as his ship passes the Sirens without being lured away. He’s the only survivor after shipwreck, then is trapped with Calypso for seven years. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 207. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Not actually existing in the imaginary world of Vision Pro. Click for a solution Virtual reality… | Continue reading
In June 2022, Apple retired MRT and replaced it with XProtect Remediator. Here’s all you need to know about this new tool and what it does. | Continue reading
In the early 20th century, some bathers opted for trunks, a few still bathed naked in seclusion, and modern clothes broke out on occasion. | Continue reading
There’s a great more to come in Sonoma: two major changes in virtualisation, iCloud, privacy, accessibility and more. | Continue reading
Throughout the 19th century, as going to the beach became more popular, adults at least only bared essentials, and even covered arms and legs. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Not actually existing in the imaginary world of Vision Pro. 2: Not apparatus for another OS i… | Continue reading
In Ventura, Apple has been introducing more behavioural detection and protection. This is only going to expand in Sonoma. Here’s what it promises. | Continue reading
For his third Salon in 1827, he submitted one huge work developed from Lord Byron’s account of the death of Sardanapalus. | Continue reading
Sometimes, a cold boot fixes problems not fixed by a simple restart. Why, and which problems is it better at fixing? | Continue reading
Apple has just released an update to XProtect Remediator security software for Macs running Catalina or later, bringing it to version 99. Version 98 wasn’t released. Apple doesn’t relea… | Continue reading
More important than perspective projection are cues including depth order, relative size, height in the picture plane, and aerial perspective. | Continue reading
Two metadata editors, and an app to improve your privacy by cleaning metadata and more. Updated for High Sierra and later. | Continue reading
Which Macs are supported, which new features are available on each, and what about OCLP and obtaining betas? | Continue reading
An attribute of the goddess Athena (Minerva), it consists of the image of the face of Medusa on a shield or breastplate. | Continue reading
What’s the best option if you don’t have the luxury of running betas on a dedicated Mac? How to install and run them in a VM. | Continue reading
Leader of a school that flourished in Ukraine from 1910 until it fell victim to Stalin’s Great Purge in 1937. Most of his visual art was destroyed. | Continue reading
How to tell whether an app has a memory leak, what to do about it, and the differences from a kernel memory leak. | Continue reading
Apple has now announced which models will enjoy official support for macOS 14, named Sonoma: iMac 2019 (iMac19,x) […] | Continue reading
She invited Odysseus and his crew to a feast, where she turned most of them into pigs. Odysseus avoids that fate, and later gets a prophecy from Tiresias. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 206. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Image library replaced both in 2015. Click for a solution Photos Image library (what it is) repl… | Continue reading
Causes include code signature errors, app translocation, damaged documents, and corrupted or incompatible preference file. | Continue reading
From Renoir in 1881 through multiple Impressonists to Monet in 1908, more views of Piazza San Marco in Venice. | Continue reading
Apple needs to widen the gap between late Intel and Apple silicon Macs without locking Intel Macs out, mature Stage Manager, fix System Settings, and more. | Continue reading
From Bellini in 1496, through Canaletto, to JMW Turner in 1840, views of Piazza San Marco in Venice. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Image library replaced both in 2015. 2: Not taken with your Brownie, but with a backup. 3: An… | Continue reading
Two major works showing the plight of Greeks during their war of independence, first signs of Orientalism, and several literary narratives. | Continue reading
Where to look for file metadata in the Finder, and how you can customise it, in spite of its apparent confusion. And how APFS takes care of extended attributes for you. | Continue reading
Hodler's Parallelist paintings, and more than 30 of the paintings of Paul Cézanne depart from the basic optical principles of reflections. Why? | Continue reading
What are the performance differences between SHA-256 and 512? What throughput can you expect when checking hashes? And how to correct errors detected? | Continue reading
A symbol of the harvest with Ceres, a weapon for Bacchantes, the sign of the Divine Reaper Saturn, used by Iris to cut locks of hair, and for cutting the cereal crop. | Continue reading
Introduced in the Finder in Mac OS X, these hidden and invisible files have been quietly causing havoc with backups, revision control systems, and more. | Continue reading
Among 15 works shown here are two of Sviatohirsk Monastery, destroyed by Bolsheviks after October Revolution of 1917, and shelled into ruins in 2022. | Continue reading
Since November 2020, every T2 and Apple silicon Mac that has booted Big Sur or later in Full Security mode has check the integrity of its 9 GB SSV. | Continue reading
Queen Penelope and their son Telemachus were awaiting the return of Odysseus, whose ships ended up off the island of the Cyclops. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 205. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Fifteen years and seven generations until it died a year ago, the last of the whole line. Click … | Continue reading
How to capture the panic log, immediate actions likely to help make a diagnosis, and how to read the panic log. | Continue reading
The curious story of the countess who rode naked through the city of Coventry to win its people a cut in taxes, and Wanda of Kraków. | Continue reading