Its reputation promoted by Gauguin and Émile Bernard, the artist's colony was in the avant garde with Paul Sérusier and remained popular into the 20th century. | Continue reading
T2M2 is nearly 7 years old, and has already found at least two bugs in Time Machine. Here’s why it’s so hard to get it to work perfectly with each version of macOS. | Continue reading
This artist's colony developed in the 1860s, and soon became popular with Americans studying in Paris. It attained fame with Paul Gauguin, who first visited in 1886. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Dandelion seed head brings alarm. 2: Heavy but never light, fine but never coarse, it brings … | Continue reading
Why did that progress dialog suddenly vanish long before it had even reached 50% of the copying progress? | Continue reading
The Roman poet whose poetic account of myths found a place in almost every workshop or studio in Europe between 1500-1850. | Continue reading
M3 chips widen the gap between Pro and Max variants. They also change relative performance between P and E cores to make M3 CPUs more versatile. | Continue reading
Paintings of mountains in Australia and New Zealand, by Eugene von Guérard, Nicholas Chevalier, John Turnbull Thomson, Marianne North and Charles Blomfield. | Continue reading
Minor update to version 2 for recent macOS backing up using Time Machine to APFS. This lets you reduce the number of error messages shown. | Continue reading
Goya, Thomas Girtin, Tom Thomson, John Singer Sargent, Renoir, Eva Gonzalès and others painting anglers and those in pursuit of shellfish. | Continue reading
Knowing a little about sparse and clone files in APFS is dangerous, as it can lead you to draw the wrong conclusions. | Continue reading
The fall of Icarus, Raphael’s cartoon of the Miraculous Draft of Fishes, Hodler, Larsson, John Constable and others painting anglers. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed this New Year’s Mac Riddles, episode 236. Here are my solutions to them. 1: First for the rest of us, it came in putty. Click for a solution Macintosh 128K First (the … | Continue reading
For Big Sur and later, specifically tailored to provide full analysis and troubleshooting of hourly Time Machine backups to APFS in Sonoma. | Continue reading
Géricault's Raft of the Medusa, Gérôme's gladiators, Émile Claus and Luminism, Boudin on the beach, and into the skies with Hans Thoma's herons. | Continue reading
Adds bridged networking, VM settings files, prevents inadvertent window closure when a VM is running, and more. Tested with 6 distros. | Continue reading
Rubens’ hunting scenes and Delacroix, the last of his shipwrecks, Sorolla’s fishing scenes, Arthurian legend, the story of Salome, and more. | Continue reading
The M1 cycle took 16 months from basic to Ultra; that shortened to 12 months for the M2. As the first Studio M2 Ultras were being prepared for shipping, the M3 cycle started. | Continue reading
Storm in the Bay of Biscay, a deep fake of 1808, a dedication for a wedding present, the Trojan Horse, and remarkable modern narratives. | Continue reading
Here are this New Year weekend’s riddles to entertain you through your celebrations. 1: First for the rest of us, it came in putty. 2: All the tens for this national park next to Sierra. 3: F… | Continue reading
How to change the password for an encrypted sparse bundle, and how to use an ISO keyboard in a macOS VM on Apple silicon. | Continue reading
A personal choice of ten of the most wonderful paintings by artists from Ukraine, selected from the 8-month series of articles published here last year. | Continue reading
Before Apple had even released its Developer Transition Kit, virtualisation was already one of the 3 pillars of software support on Apple silicon Macs. | Continue reading
The wedding feasts of Peleus and Thetis, Pirithous and Hippodame, Perseus and Andromeda, and a more peaceful banquet thrown by Achelous. | Continue reading
Coping with 64-bit code, APFS, the different CPU, the SSV, System Settings, Recovery Mode, and how to get the best from migration and sharing in iCloud. | Continue reading
The Last Supper, Veronese’s series of New Testament feasts leading to his appearance before the Inquisition, and Belshazzar’s Feast. | Continue reading
A strange observation, that the last thread to complete a matrix multiplication task was always much later than others, explored to discover a different strategy used by macOS. | Continue reading
Paintings from Norway to California, from Nikolai Astrup, Ants Laikmaa, Lovis Corinth, George Breitner, George Clausen, Paul Nash and Colin Campbell Cooper. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed this Christmas Mac Riddles, episode 235. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Iodine Scotsman, a professional, was first with Apple’s chip. Click for a solution iMac Pro … | Continue reading
Running a macOS VM on Apple silicon has many advantages: it lets you run older macOS on newer models, is more secure, and convenient, except it can’t work with App Store apps. | Continue reading
Early paintings of the Nativity from 1263 to 1504, from Duccio, Robert Campin, Petrus Christus, Botticelli and Fra Bartolomeo. | Continue reading
When did you last see figures on your Mac that were unbelievable, like 60 TB of snapshots on a 2 TB SSD? We need more sanity checking. | Continue reading
How the tradition of Christmas trees is relatively recent, family scenes of celebrating the day before Christmas, and how it also became a day to remember the poor and others less fortunate. | Continue reading
What was the biggest and most important change in macOS this year? Pets in the People album in Photos, AirTag sharing, or iCloud Drive? | Continue reading
Views of France, from the island of Groix in the north-west, to Saint-Tropez in the south. By Signac, Bonnard, Vallotton, van Rysselberghe, and others. | Continue reading
Here are this Christmas weekend’s riddles to entertain you through your celebrations. 1: Iodine Scotsman, a professional, was first with Apple’s chip. 2: Two gaberdines for the proposit… | Continue reading
What you need to know about the 3 XProtects: classic, Remediator and BehaviourService, and full details of what we know about XPR 122. | Continue reading
This is the second in my series of articles looking at paintings believed to have been created a century ago, in 1923. This covers portraits, non-narrative figurative works, and still lifes. Subseq… | Continue reading
If you use macOS VMs on an Apple silicon Mac, folders shared with the host may vanish in 14.2 and later. Here’s why, which are affected, and how to work around the problem. | Continue reading
Passes of St Gothard, Chalus in N Iran, the Pyrenees, the Vikos Gorge, the Daryal Gorge in the Caucasus, the Simplon and others. | Continue reading
Comparison between 2 Intel and 2 Apple silicon Macs running vector and matrix functions from Apple’s Accelerate library. Was that new M3 worth the money? | Continue reading
More examples drawn from “Midsummer Night’s Dream”, and from “The Tempest”, that were exhibited at the Royal Academy and elsewhere. | Continue reading
If you run macOS virtual machines (VMs) on Apple silicon Macs using lightweight virtualisation, you may wish to avoid updating those VMs to macOS Sonoma 14.2 or 14.2.1 for the moment. If you do, th… | Continue reading
It turns out that the Finder is just retaining all those image thumbnails in its memory for 2-3 days after you last browsed them. Is this what we want? | Continue reading
Apple has just released an update to XProtect Remediator security software (Catalina or later), bringing it to version 122 (the previous released version was 120), and to XProtect (for all macOS fr… | Continue reading
Apple has just released an update to macOS Sonoma, bringing it to version 14.2.1. On Intel Macs, the update is just over 400 MB, so appears to be a minor patch. Apple’s release notes are ters… | Continue reading
Found in Celtic and Germanic folklore, they first become popular in Shakespeare’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream”, and established a sub-genre in the 19th century. | Continue reading
Step by step guide to passing your Mac on or recycling it. Use EACAS where available. Don’t use .AppleSetupDone which doesn’t work in macOS 14 anyway. | Continue reading