Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: With emoji […] | Continue reading
Has Apple fallen behind in ML and AI? Why hasn't it got its own Large Language Model, and how can it possibly catch up now? | Continue reading
Landscape paintings by Daubigny, Sisley, Berkos, Astrup, Pissarro, Julian Onderdonk, Granville Redmond, Théo van Rysselberghe and others. | Continue reading
What happens when you press and hold the e key? Does it repeat, or do you see a window offering accented versions? Do you know you can change that? | Continue reading
Convert a document into a folder containing all its saved versions, and unarchive that folder back into a document with all those saved versions. All using drag-and-drop. | Continue reading
From 1925, he moved away from themes common with his teacher Friedrich and developed his own Gothic Romanticism. | Continue reading
There's a problem with your Mac, so you try starting it up in Recovery. But that doesn't work. What should try next? Intel and Apple silicon Macs are then quite different. | Continue reading
After 1850, there was a resurgence of expressions of the emptiness and futility of earthly life, with symbols of death and transience of ephemeral objects. | Continue reading
Understanding how APFS works: inodes, attributes, file extents, extended attributes, and how they change with editing and cloning. | Continue reading
Apple has just released updates to XProtect Remediator security software (Catalina or later), bringing it to version 129, […] | Continue reading
Originating in the Northern Renaissance, these paintings expressed feelings of emptiness, and the futility of earthly life. Examples of these elaborate allegories. | Continue reading
How to reproduce this serious bug in Sonoma 14.4, and how to archive all the versions of a file or document so they can't get destroyed. | Continue reading
Have noticed brief periods of high CPU for universalaccessd in Sonoma? Do you know what com.apple.axserver is and why it can't be found? Can you help with this puzzle? | Continue reading
Do you use saved versions in documents? If a file is evicted by you or macOS, then all saved versions will now be removed, and lost forever. How to work around this serious bug. | Continue reading
The grandson of the founder of Thebes happens into Diana's sacred wood when out hunting, and sees the goddess naked. She changes him into a stag, with fatal consequences. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 247. Here are my solutions to them. 1: A […] | Continue reading
Step by step through moving to iCloud Drive, eviction to a dataless file, materialisation of local data, editing and syncing with iCloud Drive. | Continue reading
Gambling among soldiers and young boys, games of Pharo, l'hombre, poker, and the Casino at Monte-Carlo. | Continue reading
How do the SMC and CoreDuet manage the systems in your Mac, and should you fiddle with them? | Continue reading
Gambling as a sure road to Hell, with Bosch, Caravaggio, Georges de la Tour, Hogarth, Géricault, Courbet, Rossetti, and others. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: A thousand […] | Continue reading
Simply having a boot volume group with a System snapshot in it won't get your Mac to start up from that disk, particularly if it's an Apple silicon model. Some details. | Continue reading
Pontoise by Pissarro, Paul Nash's Berkshire Downs, Rosa Bonheur's teams of oxen ploughing, and Grant Wood's Iowa prairie. | Continue reading
Secure Boot and its 5 stages, the SSV, support for external bootable disks, the SEP, Recovery, and lightweight virtualisation. | Continue reading
A polymath who was professor of obstetrics, he became Friedrich’s pupil in 1814. They shared locations and the use of Rückenfiguren. | Continue reading
Killed by Jupiter’s thunderbolts when she insisted he proved his identity, this myth is a reminder that making something more secure isn’t always a good answer. | Continue reading
In landscapes by Rubens, Constable, Ford Madox Brown, Frederic Edwin Church, Millet, Pissarro, Breton, and Prendergast. | Continue reading
Ever been tempted to turn on this feature, or maybe you use it already? Do you know how it works, and whether it preserves your files fully? | Continue reading
Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all versions of macOS from El Capitan or so, bringing it to version 2189. Apple doesn’t release information about what security issues this u… | Continue reading
The primary attribute of Iris, with the soothing song of Amphitrite, bearing the Norse deities to Valhalla, the sign of God's covenant after the Flood, and at the Last Judgement. | Continue reading
History from Mac Portable's led acid to the latest lithium-polymer. But how should you manage your Mac's battery? What about when in storage or heat? | Continue reading
Europa’s brother Cadmus is told to found a new city wherever a cow leads him. After killing a man-eating dragon, he sows its teeth in the soil. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 246. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Once a Latin American dance on 445, it’s a year older than the Mac, and now the shared sta… | Continue reading
It lets you evict files so their data is only held in iCloud Drive, freeing up local space. But would to get into storage debt as a results? | Continue reading
Degas' Miss La La, a clown feeding a baby, cruelty to performers and animals, the misery of the Saltimbanques, and the melancholy of clowns. | Continue reading
Making their appearance for the first time in macOS 14.4 are Agatha Christie’s detective Hercule Poirot, branches from nerve cells, and isolated fragments of states. What can they be? | Continue reading
From the Circus Maximus with its crowd of 150,000 to those walking the tightrope under the canvas of the Big Top. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Once a Latin American dance on 445, it’s a year older than the Mac, and now the sha… | Continue reading
Until two years ago, Apple’s Malware Removal Tool, MRT, was all that macOS had to deal with any malicious software that got onto your Mac. While Gatekeeper and its XProtect signatures can det… | Continue reading
When to paint looking into the rising or setting sun, or when to put your back to the sun to show its light cast on a mountain peak. | Continue reading
Malware tries to trick you into providing it your password. How to recognise genuine requests from those fakes. | Continue reading
Sonoma version 14.4 is the most substantial update of this cycle so far, and includes extensive new bundles and changes throughout the System/Library folder, which has grown in size by around 150 i… | Continue reading
Apple has just released the update to bring macOS Sonoma to version 14.4, together with security updates to Ventura and Monterey, bringing them to versions 13.6.5 and 12.7.4 respectively. For Intel… | Continue reading
Five years of some of his most enduring works, including ‘The Stages of Life’, his enigmatic masterwork. | Continue reading
How local files retain their extended attributes and versions when moved to iCloud Drive, but they’re not available to other Macs. Sparse files and storage economy as well. | Continue reading
Hatboxes from Shakespeare to the Champs Elysées, the wig-box of hanged highwayman, Dickens’ cashboxes, and the painter’s pochade. | Continue reading
Memory, from L1 instruction cache to main memory, and how it came to be Unified. Why the internal SSD isn’t like others, and why it’s so essential. | Continue reading
Apple has just released updates to XProtect Remediator security software (Catalina or later), bringing it to version 128, and to XProtect (for all macOS from El Capitan or so) bringing it to versio… | Continue reading