If you are beta-testing macOS 15 Sequoia in a lightweight virtual machine on an Apple silicon Mac, beware […] | Continue reading
The incredible myth of Leda and the swan, the transformation of Phaëthon's brother Cycnus, King Arthur, Hesiod, Swan Pie and more. | Continue reading
A thorough run-down on which versions of my most popular free apps are compatible with which macOS, including Sequoia. From Skint to Vimy. | Continue reading
The King of Thrace who raped his sister-in-law, cut out her tongue, and imprisoned her in a remote cabin. Her revenge is brutal and unforgiving. | Continue reading
Displaying log entries using semantic colour seemed most appropriate using AttributedString, but performs very poorly. The solution is a SwiftUI List view. | Continue reading
He trained in Paris from 1886, painting in the artists' colony at Grez from 1890. He then returned to Japan, where he led the development of Western style, and Japanese Impressionism. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 264. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Lines […] | Continue reading
Moving away from using the log command tool to obtain log extracts for browsing requires using OSLog. Its API explored and implemented in a demo app. | Continue reading
Some of the very few paintings that show what's underwater, most usually a drowning woman like Shakespeare's Ophelia. | Continue reading
It has taken 2 years for virtualisation on Apple silicon to support Apple ID with iCloud and its features. But it still doesn't let you run almost all App Store apps. | Continue reading
Painter to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, she was a friend of Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens. But the Royal Academy refused her, because she was a woman. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Lines that […] | Continue reading
Although viruses native to the Mac arrived slightly later, by the end of the 1990s there were at least 35. Here's a brief look at the tools available then. | Continue reading
After the First Impressionist exhibition, he concentrated on achieving success at the Salon, and Durand-Ruel represented him. | Continue reading
How to create and configure a Sequoia beta to run in a virtual machine on an Apple silicon Mac, either in Sequoia or Sonoma, and a surprise in its features. | Continue reading
Two strategies illustrated: painting in the valley and de-emphasising the surrounding hills, or painting from above the valley, with the hills not visible. | Continue reading
Why you shouldn't try killing kernel_task, but take action to help cool your Mac and reduce the heat it's producing. | Continue reading
One of the founding fathers of modern Icelandic painting, he trained in Copenhagen and painted landscapes in the early 20th century. | Continue reading
Most backup apps make snapshots, so why not use those instead of conventional backups? Because of the weaknesses of snapshots, as explained. | Continue reading
Hot on the heels of the slightly earlier update to XProtect, Apple has just released an update to […] | Continue reading
Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all versions of macOS from El Capitan or so, […] | Continue reading
Between 1880 and 1886 he painted 5 different versions of 'Island of the Dead', which owes much to German Romanticism. | Continue reading
A brief reference to excluding items from being backed up, from Spotlight indexing their contents, and for them to be copied up to iCloud Drive. | Continue reading
The satyr Marsyas became an outstanding player of the aulos, and played in a contest against the god Apollo. He can't win, and ends up being flayed alive. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 263. Here are my solutions to them. 1: A […] | Continue reading
Reading log entries made by a Private Framework for Battery widgets in Sonoma, it's possible to track information about keyboards, mice, trackpads, UPS and internal batteries. | Continue reading
Daughter of the King of Sparta, she was first given in marriage to Orestes, then taken away and married to Pyrrhus, who already had a concubine. She wanted to return Orestes, though. | Continue reading
Digging for buried treasure in the Unified log isn't easy, but has a fine track history of bringing plenty of silver and gold. Here it's about batteries. | Continue reading
Having mysteriously lost his first wife during their escape from Troy, Aeneas falls in love with Queen Dido of Carthage, a relationship doomed from the start. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: A small […] | Continue reading
Managing memory and its problems was an important part of running Classic Mac OS, but everything changed in Mac OS X. Do we still need apps to do that? | Continue reading
Mentor to the young Claude Monet, he was successful at the Salon, and took part in the First Impressionist Exhibition in 1874. | Continue reading
Unless you exclude them from backups, Time Machine will back up all items in iCloud Drive as long as they're stored locally when the backup is made. | Continue reading
Rolling countryside in the Downs of England, the Alban Hills near Rome, Normandy, Pontoise, the Jorat in Switzerland, and the rural Midwest. | Continue reading
Are Apple's products designed to last longer? A new white paper puts Apple's case, and dismisses allegations of built-in obsolescence. | Continue reading
Swiss painter who trained in Düsseldorf then became influenced by paintings of the German Romantics. Part 1 of 2. | Continue reading
How to prefix a file or folder name with a . to hide it, how to use chflags, and how they differ. And what are all those .DS_Store and ._ files doing? | Continue reading
The origin of Helen, perhaps, ready to be served to Mercury and Jupiter, caged in Rome's Capitol, or cared for young girls. | Continue reading
How could you study how Apple silicon CPU cores are used to run code? Comparisons between Activity Monitor, Xcode Instruments, and powermetrics. | Continue reading
Goddess Latona gives birth to twins Apollo and Diana, but local peasants refuse to let her drink from their lake, so they're turned into frogs. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 262. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Roll […] | Continue reading
What you need, what the risks are, and how to ensure you don't have problems if things go wrong. Includes coverage of VMs and more. | Continue reading
Paintings of gardeners by Bazille, Sisley, Caillebotte, Pissarro, Grant Wood and others. | Continue reading
Swift 6 claims built-in support for writing asynchronous and parallel code. But these are very different, and that for multithreading appears elusive. | Continue reading
Before 1700, the myth of Vertumnus and Pomona was popular, as was Mary Magdalene's mistaking of the resurrected Christ as a gardener. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Roll on […] | Continue reading
Extensions or INITs in Classic Mac OS required Conflict Catcher for their management. But they remain a vulnerability, and can't be used with full boot security any more. | Continue reading
Second and concluding article, including paintings by van Gogh, Chase, Monet, Pissarro, Cézanne and others. | Continue reading