T2 Macs updated to 15.3.2 should have a newer firmware version than those who installed the Safari update for Sonoma or Ventura, but what is 14.7.5 and 13.7.5? Time to deconfuse. | Continue reading
Mary Magdalene, Saint Paul, Saint Cecilia, Joan of Arc in paintings by Elisabetta Sirani, Artemisia Gentileschi, Raphael, Annie Swynnerton and others. | Continue reading
Speed up your hard disk by partitioning it so that its innermost 20% remains unused. Reserve space for the SLC write cache on an SSD by limiting the size of volumes. | Continue reading
Aeneas and his family flee the burning city of Troy, losing his wife on the way. They sail to Delos, where they see the trees that Latona gripped when giving birth to Apollo and Diana. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 299. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Lucida […] | Continue reading
Covering thermal throttling, extended coverage of SLC write cache depletion and how long it takes to empty the cache, Trimming, and more. | Continue reading
After his divorce, his son the King of Rome. Disaster on the retreat from Moscow, and exile on the island of Saint Helena. The rapid rise of Napoleon III and his military failure against Prussia in 1870. | Continue reading
What was this new background service that suddenly appeared in Sonoma 14.1, liquiddetectiond? Why wasn't it documented until a year later, and is Apple really gathering data about damp USB-C ports? | Continue reading
Emperor Napoleon I, a Corsican of Italian origin who died on a remote British island in the South Atlantic. Paintings of his early military successes, and the Empress Joséphine before their divorce. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Lucida or […] | Continue reading
Installing and maintaining Mac OS 9.1 was a complex process that could easily occupy you for several hours getting all its components right. | Continue reading
A cheap substitute for tapestries, they came of age in the 19th century when paper could be made in long rolls and colour printing had improved. | Continue reading
Get started browsing your Mac's log using this lightweight and friendly utility. A walkthrough looking at what happened when I launched an app. | Continue reading
More detailed and faithful landscapes of Wales, Scotland, and his native Norway. Teacher of Christian Krogh, Frits Thaulow and others. | Continue reading
How laptop Apple silicon Macs help prevent attack by malicious USB and TB devices using Accessory Security, and why some of them also have liquid detectors in their USB-C ports. | Continue reading
Born in what is now Oslo, he trained in Düsseldorf, Germany, and painted faithful and highly detailed landscapes, mainly in his native country. | Continue reading
The difference between security and privacy, how consent and intent are obtained, how this works with command tools, important links, lists of protected resources and tccutil arguments. | Continue reading
Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all supported versions of macOS, bringing it to version […] | Continue reading
Apple has just released an update for macOS Sequoia bringing it to version 15.3.2. There are currently no […] | Continue reading
How expression of pain became stereotyped in narrative paintings from Caravaggio to Böcklin, a very early Rembrandt and the anguish of a ewe on the death of her lamb. | Continue reading
Since the update to XProtect Remediator version 151, many have seen warnings of a plugin being cancelled. This explains how that happens, and what you can do about it. | Continue reading
Achilles' ghost demands the sacrifice of Hecuba's daughter in appeasement. Hecuba then blinds Polymestor for killing her son. Finally Aurora laments the death of her son Memnon. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 298. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Causing […] | Continue reading
Survey of other privacy controls, including those involved in scripting and for development. Details of the new control on access to devices on the local network. | Continue reading
In the early years of the 20th century, Sorolla started painting well-dressed young ladies strolling along the beaches of his native València. | Continue reading
XProtect's updates are now less timely and reliable than they were in previous versions of macOS, leaving some Macs not updated for over 48 hours after release of a new version. | Continue reading
Sorolla's paintings through the 1890s showed the hard and dangerous lives of the fishermen who worked from the beaches of València. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Causing to […] | Continue reading
From System 7's Control Panels, through Mac OS X's System Prefs, then System Preferences. And what happened in Ventura. | Continue reading
Laundresses who collect clothes and linen from homes, launder and press them, and return them for a pittance. Seamstresses working long hours with an uncertain future. | Continue reading
These work differently from other privacy controls, and are required for Find My… and Activation Lock. There are some catches too, and no command tool to help. | Continue reading
Small clocks inside glass bell cases on the mantelpiece, and longcase clocks ticking away the time as items of furniture. But these are rare examples until the 20th century. | Continue reading
Getting XProtect data to update in Sequoia has been an adventure. The latest update to 5289 seems to have changed the rules again. Here's how it works, and how you can get updated. | Continue reading
Fashionable hats and milliners by Georges Clairin, Edgar Degas, Jean Béraud, Pierre-Georges Jeanniot and Henri Gervex. | Continue reading
You could save hundreds of $/€/£ buying a Mac with a smaller internal SSD. Is that a good economy, or will you come to regret it? Here are the pros and cons. | Continue reading
Apple has just released updates to XProtect for all supported versions of macOS, bringing it to version 5289, […] | Continue reading
Improves Signposts feature and makes a couple of minor corrections. | Continue reading
The origin of the conical hat worn by Jews. and that worn by dunces. Cavaliers and Roundheads, crowns and mitres, the cardinal's red biretta, and Dante's chaperon. | Continue reading
Supports both continuous and discontinuous selection of log entries, copy their text contents, Signposts, and smart window and file naming. | Continue reading
Alax and Ulysses vie for the arms and armour of the dead Achilles. The Greeks enter Troy and start its destruction, killing King Priam and the infant Astyanax. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 297. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Can […] | Continue reading
Control access from apps to devices like cameras and microphones. How to check the reason for their request, and whether they have entitlement to do so. How to remove apps from the privacy lists, and more. | Continue reading
Femme fatale, daughter of Pope Alexander VI, she was the lover of Isabella d'Este's husband, and inspired portraits until Dante Gabriel Rossetti in 1871. | Continue reading
Users should be given a third option to defer updating further, as well as doing it now or later tonight. Does the DAS scheduling and dispatch system rely on security through obscurity too? | Continue reading
After an excellent education, she married the Duke of Mantua, and started collecting paintings, most commissioned in great detail for her private study. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Can still […] | Continue reading
From their origin with an email engine in 1993, to the addition of the more secure Data Protection keychain supporting passkeys and much more. | Continue reading
The evils of absinthe in paintings by Degas, Raffaëlli, Jean Béraud, and other booze like Bocks by Manet and Friant, with artists also drinking heavily. | Continue reading