Sparse files are now common among databases, disk images, and virtual machines. How they work in APFS, how they're created, and how they can explode. | Continue reading
From detailed realism in a Barbizon style around 1880, his paintings steadily filled with rich light, through Impressionism the 1890s. | Continue reading
Consider the fidelity of backup copies, the speed of a backup method, and the risk of losing the contents of that backup. And test backups by restoring samples from them. | Continue reading
Paintings of the quais of Paris from Bonington in 1819, through Impressionism to the Divisionism of Signac and Maximilien Luce. | Continue reading
Swift 6 is the first major version for 5 years, and features structured concurrency that will change software for macOS over the coming years. | Continue reading
More common themes: mist and mountains, castles and ruins, and the Dresden skyline. | Continue reading
Auto-update in SilentKnight 2.7 and 2.8, and in Skint 1.05 and 10.6, is broken. This is because of not one but two Catch-22s. | Continue reading
From Hannibal crossing the Alps with his war elephants, through the temptation of St Anthony, to the circus and an imaginary India. | Continue reading
Classic TM backed up HFS+ to HFS+; current TM backs up APFS to APFS. But what if you want to back up a mixture of APFS and HFS+ volumes? | Continue reading
Cupid makes Pluto fall in love with Ceres' young daughter Proserpine. When the king of Hades carries her off with him, there are consequences for the whole world. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 258. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Sneak […] | Continue reading
For 18 years, cloning a boot disk was popular and effective. It was even used as a way of defragmenting free space in housekeeping. Why doesn't it work with Apple's new Macs? | Continue reading
Thanks to the work and support of his wife, he made an excellent recovery and returned to painting. But this had taken its toll, and he died in 1925. | Continue reading
Two watersheds that could occur in macOS 15: that it only supports Macs with Apple chips including an Arm processor, and that it opens access to older versions of macOS on Apple silicon. | Continue reading
Corinth lived a bohemian life when he married his first painting student, when she was 22, and he was 44. All went well until 1911, when disaster struck. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Sneak peek […] | Continue reading
PDF was introduced by Adobe in 1993, when its viewer Acrobat became popular, and PDFs were created from PostScript using Distiller. Then came Preview from NeXT to Mac OS X. | Continue reading
Although the term didn't come into use until 1791, panoramic landscapes started earlier, and largely stopped by the end of the 19th century. | Continue reading
Adds a Dock menu command to run its checks without having to bring the app to the front, and should be compatible with macOS 15. | Continue reading
Gnarled, twisted, wizened and barren trees are one of the bleakest sights in the winter in northern Europe, and a common motif in German Romanticism. | Continue reading
Extends checks on XProtect Remediator scans to cover the previous 36 hours, and is ready for use with macOS 15 when it arrives. | Continue reading
Origin of the French tricolour, and Marianne, Norway making its way to independence, 4th July flag parades, and dressing overall at regattas. | Continue reading
When Apple opens WWDC on 10 June, it will release the first beta of macOS 15 to developers. By September, support for Monterey will be withdrawn. Now is the time to start planning your upgrades. | Continue reading
Apple has just released updates to XProtect Remediator security software (Catalina or later), bringing it to version 135, […] | Continue reading
Turner's Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus, banners in Raphael's and Tintoretto's paintings of the Passion, and Friedrich's Swedish flag. | Continue reading
How will quantum cryptography and the ease with which it should break current methods of encryption, affect the security of data on my Mac? | Continue reading
The wedding of Perseus to Andromeda turns into a pitched battle, with many turned to stone by Medusa's face. Then 9 daughters challenge the Muses to a contest. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 257. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Candela, […] | Continue reading
It has often been assumed that App Store apps don't undergo app translocation. That isn't true: here's an example of one that gets stuck in eternal translocation because it comes with an unwanted gift. | Continue reading
When Edward Burne-Jones was invited to remove his painting from exhibition, it wasn't so much the male genitals in the centre, but the scandal surrounding its model. | Continue reading
The big question for WWDC is how Apple is going to put more distance between features for Intel and Apple silicon Macs? Here are some suggestions. | Continue reading
Odysseus had been away from his home, wife Penelope and son Telemachus for over 20 years. What would she have written to him? | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Candela, toxic […] | Continue reading
The journey from single-document and basic styles, through the lightweight word processor brought to Mac OS X from NeXT. | Continue reading
From Velázquez's pioneering sketches of 1630, through Valenciennes in 1780, to Constable, Corot, and Pissarro, Manet and John Singer Sargent in the late 19th century. | Continue reading
Is your Mac slow to report and install macOS, security data, or App Store updates? These tips ensure you do get them promptly. | Continue reading
The development of fully-rigged sailing ships in the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich and JC Dahl. | Continue reading
Could old images be retained on a device or your Mac after you had securely erased it using Erase Assistant? | Continue reading
Played for the Danse Macabre in the Middle Ages, a favourite of Hieronymus Bosch, and Joseph Stella in the early 20th century. | Continue reading
Help has been in steady decline since macOS 10.13. More recently, when you open a Help book on an Intel Mac it may get buried, but it doesn't on M-series Macs. Why? | Continue reading
The double pipe with reeds played by Marsyas in his doomed contest with Apollo, blown by the Sirens, and more. | Continue reading
Implementing a basic drag-and-drop app for macOS using SwiftUI: the DropDelegate protocol, and working with NSItemProvider. With full source and notarized example. | Continue reading
Swift source code implementing drag and drop and more, to accompany the main article. | Continue reading
Perseus describes in his wedding speech how he beheaded Medusa, and how she came to have snakes in her hair. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 256. Here are my solutions to them. 1: A […] | Continue reading
Although some are still experiencing the issue of new FileVault security keys, Sonoma 14.5 looks the best release yet, and fixes some troublesome bugs. | Continue reading
Into the 20th century, fog became a popular compositional device. Examples from Monet, Pissarro, Vallotton, Hodler and others. | Continue reading
Launching an app for the first time used be simple. Now we have the SSV, launch constraints and app translocation to contend with. | Continue reading