A leader of the avant garde from 1914-30, he developed his treatise on art theory in 1914, and both painted and taught from it in Armenia and Kyiv. | Continue reading
Lightweight VMs currently only support ANSI and not ISO keyboard layouts. For English, this makes little difference, but in other languages it’s a critical shortcoming. | Continue reading
After being entertained by Demodocus’ tale of Venus and Mars, Odysseus is delivered in the dead of night, still asleep, to a hidden harbour on Ithaca. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 209. Here are my solutions to them. 1: In the creative studio makes pictures like the face of Venus. Click for a solution (Adobe) Illus… | Continue reading
When you know an update has been released, but your Mac can’t find it, or you try to install the update but it fails with an error. | Continue reading
Cadmus’ daughter Semele is destroyed by Jupiter’s lightning, but her infant grows into Bacchus. Pentheus is then torn apart by bacchantes, and Cadmus and his wife are turned into snakes… | Continue reading
Eighteen updates in just a few days. Here’s what’s going on with them, why Apple couldn’t use an RSR, and where we’re headed next. | Continue reading
Cadmus, Europa's brother, kills a dragon and sows its teeth to grow into the men who help him build Thebes. But his grandson Actaeon is killed when he catches Diana bathing. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: In the creative studio makes pictures like the face of Venus. 2: Attraction draws up plans fr… | Continue reading
Why is it, what is it, and how can you tell whether an app runs in it? What can you do to remove an app’s entitlements? | Continue reading
A history painting of a battle in 1477 was criticised. Then he was taken as artist to a diplomatic mission to Morocco, and turned Orientalist. | Continue reading
So how can a VM of 119.6 GB fit in a 100 GB container? How sparse files can make VMs and disk images smaller on disk. | Continue reading
Apple has just released an update to XProtect Remediator security software (Catalina or later), bringing it to version 101, and to XProtect (for all macOS from El Capitan or so) bringing it to vers… | Continue reading
Brunelleschi’s perspective projection was just a start. With optical instruments and later photography, painters exploited the visual effects of unusual projections. | Continue reading
Immediate actions to get the best result from your search, and how to tackle even the most deep-seated of Spotlight problems. | Continue reading
Apple has just released urgent security updates to bring macOS Ventura to version 13.4.1, Monterey to 12.6.7 and Big Sur to 11.7.8. These fix a vulnerability in the kernel which is believed to have… | Continue reading
Is that the god Cupid, a Cupid, a putto, an amorino, or a cherub? The differences explained and illustrated in paintings by Botticelli, Titian, Raphael and others. | Continue reading
For working with document versions, managing sparse bundles, benchmarking disk performance, checking TCC privacy protection, and looking up UTIs. | Continue reading
From a Belarusian family, born in Poland, trained and launched her career in Kyiv, and built her reputation in Paris. Yet still served food in traditional Ukrainian ceramic pots and dishes. | Continue reading
Although these VMs are fast and even support Rosetta 2, they do have significant disadvantages, as detailed here. | Continue reading
A princess takes her handmaids to the coast to wash her fine robes and themselves. Out steps Odysseus, naked except for strategic leaves, and asks for their help. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 208. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Over 25 gigs burned with a blue laser. Click for a solution Blu-ray (disc) Over 25 gigs (availab… | Continue reading
Disk errors threaten your data: how to detect them, how to use First Aid in Disk Utility, how to use fsck, and what to do with the disk afterward. | Continue reading
When the sun doesn’t set at all, or sinks little before rising again. Paintings from North Cape to the US East Coast. | Continue reading
What is going to change in notarization and code signing? Will sandboxing be required? How does this affect privacy controls? | Continue reading
Strictly the Eve of Saint the Baptist, it’s marked in the Nordic and other European countries with bonfires, feasting and dancing. | Continue reading
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