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
When it started up after its macOS update, available space on its internal SSD had shot from about 160 GB to nearly 400 GB. Where had all my files gone? | Continue reading
Fireplaces and hearths, from a small town in the country, a dozing fisherman's wife copied by Vincent van Gogh, a fire in a studio, and those in suburban homes. | Continue reading
I had left my Mac running near midnight. Next morning it had shut down in the middle of an unwanted macOS update. Here's how macOS went against my express settings. | Continue reading
Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all supported versions of macOS, bringing it to version […] | Continue reading
Raphael's Disputa, Joan of Arc, the coronation of Charlemagne, a knight dedicating his service in a country church, a shockingly naked St Elizabeth, and a Last Supper painted in Norway. | Continue reading
This first experimental version gets log extracts direct, rather than using the log command tool, and has a SwiftUI front end, but requires macOS 14.6 or later. | Continue reading
Classical Greek and Roman altars, a witches' altar from a sabbath, the altar to Bel or Baal, a mysterious sacred grove, and a Greek mathematician kidnapped and killed by a Christian mob. | Continue reading
How Apple's new CPU cores can guess which code to run, and which data to load from memory. How those speculative techniques can be exploited, and should we be worried? | Continue reading
Neptune hates Achilles, so gets Apollo to help Paris mortally wound Achilles with an arrow in the tendon of his ankle. And how that came to be his vulnerable point. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 296. Here are my solutions to them. 1: No […] | Continue reading
The difference between consent and intent, why an app adds itself to Settings, and when you should add it to Full Disk Access. | Continue reading
Paintings from the end of the 19th century into the 20th, by Pymonenko, Murashko, Malevich, Bohomazov, Boichuk, Ekster and others. | Continue reading
Permissions, privacy and security protections can conspire to prevent us from accessing our own files. They aren't integrated, consistent or documented, and badly need improvement. | Continue reading
A sketchy history from Soshenko and Shevchenko in the early 19th century, to Kuznetsov and Pokhitonov at the end, with 3 famous expatriates. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: No amateur […] | Continue reading
Includes HyperTalk, UserTalk, AppleScript, Prograph, shell scripts, Automator, Swift Playgrounds and Shortcuts, from 1987 to the present. | Continue reading
From 1880 workers' strikes brought violence and strife to industrial regions throughout Europe, in the struggle for rights and justice. Shown here in contemporary paintings. | Continue reading
Working with external bootable disks: how to create and add them, ownership and LocalPolicy, how that can be changed, and what happens with errors and failure. | Continue reading
Although of ancient origin, it took 7 centuries for Europeans to use them to cover the floor. They can be exotic in chinoiserie, luxuriant, worn and threadbare, or vibrant. | Continue reading
Permissions, ACLs, TCC's privacy controls, SIP and app sandboxes. What they are, and how you can control them to access and maintain your files. | Continue reading
Curtains around 4-poster beds, revealing hidden opinions, framing a cameo landscape, showing time and place, and in a trompe l'oeil still life. | Continue reading
Your Mac unexpectedly restarts, and a little after logging in you see a Panic Alert. Before sending that to Apple, save a copy and follow this guidance, including how to read a panic log. | Continue reading
Curtains in Raphael's remarkable trompe l'oeil, concealing a nude, opened by the peeping tom, revealing a lost lover, and as separator between players and spectators. | Continue reading
Going deeper into Recovery mode, by setting the correct keyboard, sharing the Data volume with another Mac, using full features in Disk Utility and Safari, and avoiding repairing Home permissions. | Continue reading
The start of fighting in the Trojan War, how the prettiest girl in Thessaly became its toughest warrior, and the wedding feast that became all-out war. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 295. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Visible […] | Continue reading
Running older macOS, support for Intel apps and kernel extensions, booting from an external drive, Boot Camp and Windows support, cloning, and startup key combinations. | Continue reading
Paintings by Paul Signac, Maximilien Luce, and Pierre Bonnard showing fishing boats, trees and bathers near this smalll fishing village on the Mediterranean coast. | Continue reading
Important security fixes, but no published CVE entries, according to Apple. But digging deeper was also unhelpful. Could it be GoFetch, or SLAP and FLOP? | Continue reading
A small fishing village that drew several major painters from about 1892, where they depicted its boats, warmth, trees, light and bathers. From Paul Signac on. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Visible vapour […] | Continue reading
From the resource forks of Classic apps, to versioned and new-style bundles in 2001, document packages, then the incorporation of signatures and notarization tickets. | Continue reading
Meunier's paintings of the Borinage in Belgium, Breitner's construction in Amsterdam in the late 19th century, and Maximilen Luce's of Paris in the early 20th century. | Continue reading
How DAS gathers its budgets and loads lists of activities. When rescoring permits, it then dispatches the process to initiate backup. Re-scheduling has changed in Sequoia, as shown here. | Continue reading