The most prominent in paintings, Pandora’s box was really a jar, and didn’t become a popular theme until the late 19th century. | Continue reading
Further insights into how iCloud Drive works using a folder of 20 small files. These reveal system limits including chunk size and throttling. | Continue reading
Left as a cliffhanger ending to Book 2, Jupiter assumes the form of a white bull, and lures Europa to sit astride his back before whisking her away across the sea. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 245. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Passenger terminal for nearly 20 years of radio. Click for a solution AirPort Passenger terminal… | Continue reading
Changing Dock icons, a new Check Now command, a major bug fix, and more in these updates to the apps that keep a watchful eye on your Mac’s security. | Continue reading
Readily an obsession, as with Titian, de la Tour, Murillo and others, she's a penitent, while legends take her to France and even Finland. | Continue reading
Apple: “The logs are typically very overwhelming.” So what can the user do to get information about iCloud Drive problems? | Continue reading
Although conflated with another Mary, she features in her own right in paintings of the Deposition, as Myrrhbearer, and Noli me tangere. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Passenger terminal for nearly 20 years of radio. 2: Profile management for hue from CIE X… | Continue reading
When run on Sonoma, these now show log entries from com.apple.FileProvider rather than CloudDocs – a real revelation. | Continue reading
First fully developed in the Dutch Golden Age, here are Constable's storms, Turner's vortices, Boudin's textured dusk, ending in Paul Nash's imagination. | Continue reading
How the NEON vector processor, neural engine, matrix co-processor, and GPU all deliver high performance with low power and energy use. | Continue reading
Despite being one of the leading visual artists of the German Romantic movement, and his young family, he became more solitary, as shown in his paintings. | Continue reading
How Sonoma’s new FileProvider mechanism is reflected in log entries for the upload of a test file to iCloud Drive. | Continue reading
Carrying Caravaggio’s rotting fruit, bread from the cereal harvest, Vermeer’s milkmaid, fish, dirty washing, lambs, rocks and garlic. | Continue reading
What do you do when your Mac refuses to log you in because it thinks your password is incorrect? Don’t rush or panic, but follow these steps. | Continue reading
Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all versions of macOS from El Capitan or so, bringing it to version 2187. Apple doesn’t release information about what security issues this u… | Continue reading
Carrying infants, including Moses, figs with a few asps, the master’s dinner, Manet’s luncheon on the grass, snacks, banquets, and fruit. | Continue reading
Includes a version you can install into the menu bar, improved interface with categories, and internal improvements. Also makes results accessible to scripts. | Continue reading
Mercury takes a fancy to Herse, but Minerva makes her sister Aglauros jealous. When she tries to block the god, he turns her to stone. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 244. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Order an ash fruit for copy, paste and much else in menus. Click for a solution Command key Orde… | Continue reading
Running threads at different frequencies on the same core type can’t save energy and extend battery endurance. That’s where 2 core types come in handy. | Continue reading
After Courbet, the Great Wave influenced Bierstadt, Gauguin, Walter Crane, Henry Moret, Georges Lacombe, and became truly iconic. | Continue reading
All you need to know about the main services in iCloud, the limits imposed on them by Apple, and how access to them can be controlled. | Continue reading
Artists in Europe seldom painted prominent near-breaking waves until the latter half of the 19th century, when Hokusai's woodblock print of 'The Great Wave' became popular. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Order an ash fruit for copy, paste and much else in menus. 2: Choice for locking special … | Continue reading
Check its protocol support and expected maximum transfer rate, then whether it supports SMART indicators and Trims with APFS. Finally check its real-world performance. | Continue reading
Even the most humble wooden or stone bridge has a satisfying geometry about it that contrasts with natural forms without looking out of place. | Continue reading
How power efficiency is just as important to desktop Macs as it is to notebooks, and the story of the Mac mini in power from 2005-2023. | Continue reading
Born in Swedish Pomerania, studied in Copenhagen, and lived most of his adult life in Dresden. Paintings from early landscapes in 1807 to ‘Chalk Cliffs on Rügen’. | Continue reading
You’ve got a good Internet connection and iCloud should be working fine, but won’t sync data between your Mac and devices. Could it be throttled? | Continue reading
Bottles of alcoholic drink as the way to disaster, absinthe, and the last need of the destitute. As virtuoso displays, and in still lifes. | Continue reading
Did you know that, in 64-bit double floating-point format, the number pi is 4009 21FB 6000 0000? Now you can discover that, and reverse from hex to regular decimal, using Mints. | Continue reading
Apple has overnight released an update to XProtect Remediator security software for Catalina or later, bringing it to version 126. Apple doesn’t release information about what security issues… | Continue reading
Glass bottles contain potions, including medicines for the sick, and more generally for scientific purposes. Some also contain alcoholic drinks. | Continue reading
Given that Thunderbolt SSDs are unusual and expensive, should you buy a USB4 model that claims to be compatible with Thunderbolt? Watch out for the traps. | Continue reading
Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all versions of macOS from El Capitan or so, bringing it to version 2186. Apple doesn’t release information about what security issues this u… | Continue reading
The raven's feathers are changed from white to black, the crow replaced by an owl originally threatened by Neptune's rape, and more. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 243. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Simon briefly in transistors and the new Mac architecture. Click for a solution Apple silicon Si… | Continue reading
A gentle introduction to the new architecture, from how macOS allocates threads to core types, overflow, variable frequency, ending in huge differences in power. | Continue reading
Charlotte Corday made no attempt to flee the scene of her murder of Marat, was arrested and guillotined three days later. Was she the real heroine? | Continue reading
If you want to work on the same document across different Apple platforms, then the option providing most restrictive access to saved versions is iCloud Drive. | Continue reading
On 13 July 1793, a young woman from Normandy stabbed the revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat in the chest and killed him. Was Marat really the hero? | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Simon briefly in transistors and the new Mac architecture. 2: Tough metal from pre-Olympi… | Continue reading
New version fixes a bug, and adds a new window to explore floating-point number formats, as demonstrated here. And a surprise from Apple. | Continue reading
Related optical effects that combine to give the impression of depth. Explored in Renaissance paintings, and some from the 19th century. | Continue reading
Centred on Caspar David Friedrich, they were influenced by Claude-Joseph Vernet, Caspar Wolf, Philip James de Loutherbourg and Henry Fuseli. | Continue reading
Recovery reinstall, using an Installer app, or a bootable installer, or with an Apple silicon Mac in DFU mode? What the choices are, and how best to do it. | Continue reading