When and how to use Migration Assistant to move apps, settings and documents to a new or previously owned Mac. Also how a Mac can claim an old Mac's backups. | Continue reading
The first transformed into a Lotus Tree for picking lotus flowers; the second dissolved in her own tears to become a spring; the third changing gender in time for their wedding. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 281. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Second […] | Continue reading
Details of their frequency, ISA, power use, and how macOS allocates threads to P cores and relocates them. Supported by data from an M4 Pro. | Continue reading
His narrative series continued in London, with veteran's stories, a social gaffe, a modernised version of the prodigal son, and the modern woman in Paris. | Continue reading
Set up from unboxing in under 2 hours, its CPU cores perform better than those in the M3, differences that are magnified. | Continue reading
From 1859, he established himself as a detailed realist, and painted scenes from Goethe's Faust. They were followed by the return of the prodigal sone and more. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Second major […] | Continue reading
After years of limited controls, in Mojave (2018) Apple unleashed TCC and greatly enhanced privacy settings, that have come to dominate System Settings. | Continue reading
The interiors of an artist's studio, realistic or fantastic, those of the Netherlands a century earlier, a cotton office in New Orleans, and more. | Continue reading
One of the most common reasons for opening Activity Monitor is to check the % CPU of processes that might be running out of control. How accurate are those figures, though, and should you believe them? | Continue reading
He finally achieve success in 1890, and even became a member of the State Parliament. Here's his curious mix of landscapes and mythology. | Continue reading
Is an M4 next week a better risk than the promise of a better model next year? Understand how to select the M4 chip suited to your needs, and specify your new Mac. | Continue reading
The humble vegetable that enabled Europe's population boom in the 19th century. When diseased by blight, it resulted in more than a million deaths. | Continue reading
periodic has been removed from Sequoia. AI doesn't appear to activate in macOS 15.1 VMs, and they may get a surprise update intended for M4 Macs. | Continue reading
Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all supported versions of macOS, bringing it to version […] | Continue reading
Juana the Mad, who refused to let her husband be buried, resurrection of the drowned, funerals in the Carpathians, and fear of being buried alive. | Continue reading
We want confidence that all executable code is exactly as was built by its developer, and if any is found to be malicious, we want macOS to be able to block its launch. | Continue reading
Juno won't let the labour of Hercules' mother progress, so one of maids tricks Lucina into allowing the infant's delivery, for which the maid is turned into a weasel. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 280. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Third […] | Continue reading
How to discover which QuickLook generator or app extension should be creating Thumbnails or Previews for different file types, using this new version of Mints. | Continue reading
Louise Upton Brumback moves from the harbour to the beaches, and with Marsden Hartley visits the abandoned settlement of Dogtown. | Continue reading
Comparing CPU core counts and maximum core frequencies across the four families in the M series, plus expected performance of Thunderbolt 5. Which M4 Mac should you buy? | Continue reading
Paintings by Fitz Henry Lane, Winslow Homer, Willard Metcalf, Frederick Childe Hassam, and Frank Duveneck. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Third prime […] | Continue reading
From the original Desktop databases linking files to distinctive icons, to the sophistication of QuickLook, how display of thumbnails for files has changed in Mac OS. | Continue reading
Middle class collectors came to like paintings of interiors, sometimes without any figures at all. Others were Orientalist, or told open-ended narrative. | Continue reading
Backups are for recovery, while archives are for posterity. Plan for the future now by storing important files on durable media in your personal archives. | Continue reading
A prolific painter of everything from landscapes to mythology, he trained in Karlsruhe, travelled widely, but struggled to establish his art in the years to 1885. | Continue reading
Have documents saved by your favourite apps lost their custom Thumbnails and Previews in Sequoia? Here's what has gone wrong, and what you do about it. | Continue reading
Mow the grass, scatter it about, gather it in windrows, cock it, scatter then windrow it again, until it's dry and ready to stack. How to make hay the hard way. | Continue reading
Recommendations for the 'standard' user for security and privacy protection from startup to shutdown. A broad overview of all key systems and how they fit together. | Continue reading
If your Mac is still running Sonoma or Ventura, and you have already updated it to 14.7.1 or […] | Continue reading
Human in their upper body, and fish from the waist down, these aren't sirens at all, but have their own mythology in many traditions. | Continue reading
How to check Apple Intelligence Reports, available when you use Writing Tools and other AI features in an Apple silicon Mac. | Continue reading
A broad overview of changes listed by Apple, with links, how to enable AI on compatible Macs, and version changes in bundled apps and libraries. | Continue reading
As expected, Apple has release the update to macOS 15.1 Sequoia, together with security updates to bring Sonoma […] | Continue reading
When the centaur Nessus tried to abduct Hercules' wife, he was impaled by an arrow. He set up the later death of the hero, who was destroyed by poison in his own arrow. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 279. Here are my solutions to them. 1: The […] | Continue reading
Understand how TM backs up and how snapshots work to minimise the size of local snapshots and backups, and the time they take. How to ensure files in iCloud Drive are backed up properly. | Continue reading
Paintings continue with three sketches by Honoré Daumier, and set pieces by Hispaleto, telling the misadventures of Cervantes' Don Quixote. | Continue reading
What does the new Writing Tools feature in Sequoia 15.1 offer? Here are examples of its different types of summary, and a comparison with other types of AI. | Continue reading
Enormously popular across Europe, Cervantes' 'Don Quixote' led to some fine narrative paintings, but why so few even in the 19th century? | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: The first […] | Continue reading
From the Macintosh ROM of Classic days, to Open Firmware in Power Macs, and on to (U)EFI with Intel, and ending up with LLB and iBoot in Apple silicon Macs. | Continue reading
Examples of interiors by Gerard ter Borch, who liked open-ended narrative, Gabriël Metsu, Pieter de Hooch, and Jan Vermeer. | Continue reading
Sequoia 15.1 is imminent, and comes with Writing Tools. Most other AI features wait for 15.2, now in beta, and expected in early December. Don't underestimate Writing Tools, though. | Continue reading
They drew carts and ploughs, in preference to horses where power rather than speed was needed. Also for milk, beef and their hides processed into leather. | Continue reading