I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 196. Here are my solutions to them. 1: One rasp between two for others to open your documents. Click for a solution File Sharing One ra… | Continue reading
When you updated your iPhone or iPad to iOS 10.3 six years ago, you were among the first to use Apple File System, although you didn’t know it at the time. | Continue reading
Washing drying and ironing in the paintings of Berthe Morisot, William Merritt Chase, Gustave Caillebotte, Edgar Degas and others. | Continue reading
Before you update to macOS Ventura 13.3, step through these instructions for upgrading to Mac OS 9.1 from January 2001. | Continue reading
Washing and drying clothes have been important activities in many landmark paintings. Selection from Isabey, Boudin, Gauguin, Renoir and others. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: One rasp between two for others to open your documents. 2: Satisfied with hiding in a store t… | Continue reading
Enabling the TRIM command was once thought important to maintain good write performance on SSDs. What has happened to it? Should we still be enabling it? | Continue reading
Masaccio’s 20-panel polyptych, Bosch’s triptych, and one of the most substantial paintings by Leonardo da Vinci. Even Monet’s Grainstacks series. | Continue reading
Traced from recognition of the cable connection, through establishing PCI streams, to mounting the volume with APFS, and the bonus of a good trim at the end. | Continue reading
A figurative painter who specialised in orientalist fantasy and Biblical stories, and was the husband of Henrietta Rae, the pioneering feminist and painter. | Continue reading
Update improves analysis and reporting of XProtect Remediator anti-malware scans, and is for macOS Catalina and later. | Continue reading
A painter of fine landscapes in Pre-Raphaelite style, mainly around the countryside near Worcester and in North Wales. | Continue reading
Fast user switching enables more than one user login session at a time, but comes at the cost that memory and CPU resources are still required for other login sessions. | Continue reading
He remained popular and successful in Ukraine and Russia from the 1880s into the Second World War, through revolution, war and starvation. | Continue reading
Now has more nuanced interpretation of potential problems reported by XPR, and displays a simple summary in a separate reporting panel. | Continue reading
The origins of Troy explained, Helen as a princess of Troy, and Menelaos raises an expeditionary force under the command of Agamemnon. Without wind, though, their ships can’t sail. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 195. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Don’t let your Mac catch one of these discovered in the 1890s. Click for a solution virus … | Continue reading
In the worst case, an expensive TB3 SSD with a regular write speed of 2.2 GB/s could only write at 400 MB/s when connected via a hub and contending with faster SSDs. | Continue reading
In Rome, in search of the temple of Aesculapius, and in the Gardens of the Villa Borghese, with Corot, Velázquez, Valenciennes, and others. | Continue reading
Is provenance tracking intended to make app launch times shorter despite new Gatekeeper checks, or is it trying to make it harder to cheat? | Continue reading
A visit to Rome, in the paintings of Valenciennes, Turner, Paul Bril, Gérôme, and others, and a little history of landscape painting. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Don’t let your Mac catch one of these discovered in the 1890s. 2: Legendary horse to tr… | Continue reading
Not only is loginwindow there in its full glory at the start of the user phase of startup, but it’s there until the bitter end. | Continue reading
More paintings with strange incongruities, this time from Arnold Böcklin’s Sirens to the Surrealism of Paul Nash. | Continue reading
I was having problems in the Twitter app, with it stealing 100% CPU and upsetting WindowServer. Here’s how I discovered what the problem was. | Continue reading
Apple has just released an update to XProtect Remediator security software for Macs running Catalina or later, bringing it to version 93. Version 92 doesn’t appear to have been released. Appl… | Continue reading
A collection of paintings with strange incongruities that can make them impossible to read, from Masaccio to Gérôme. | Continue reading
How the new tracking extended attribute is attached to apps, how it’s recorded in a security database, and how it’s checked. But for what purpose? | Continue reading
In five years of prolific painting, he concentrated on the Black Sea coast near Odesa, in all its moods. Could he have been a successor to Ivan Aivazovsky? | Continue reading
To boot from an external disk, Apple silicon Macs need them to have an Owner. Here’s how to investigate ownership, and how it works. | Continue reading
Unfinished paintings by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Tintoretto, Bonington, Bazille, Bastien-Lepage, Moreau and others. | Continue reading
New version of ViableS runs in a sandbox, with no shared folders, and can now be isolated from networks. So how well does Ventura work without internet? | Continue reading
Zeus, disguised as a gander, raped Nemesis, who laid Helen as an egg. She became step-sister of Castor and Polydeuces, and went on to be abducted by Paris as Aphrodite’s bribe. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 194. Here are my solutions to them. 1: The fastest insectivore on the wing for nearly nine years, thanks to Chris. Click for a solution… | Continue reading
Ventura introduces a new extended attribute com.apple.provenance, used to mark successful clearance of quarantine. It’s protected by SIP too. | Continue reading
Having moved on from Divisionism, the chroma in his paintings rose to a peak by about 1918, after his retirement to the Côte d’Azur. | Continue reading
In the two years since we've been waiting for Apple to provide an option to opt out of online certificate and notarization checks, Apple has added two enhanced security modes, but not addressed the original issue. | Continue reading
After a promisingly Realist start at the age of just 17, he progressed through Impressionist style and became a Divisionist in 1887-88. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: The fastest insectivore on the wing for nearly nine years, thanks to Chris. 2: Cursive writin… | Continue reading
launchd, LaunchServices, RunningBoard, TCC, CFPrefsd, and other macOS services that manage and control your apps. | Continue reading
Inscriptions in paintings that reveal the story, or quote from its literary source, from Rembrandt to the Pre-Raphaelites. | Continue reading
How to develop predicates, filters and styles interactively, then add them to Ulbow’s settings. And how to transfer those settings to another Mac. | Continue reading
Signatures written on scraps of paper, or in books, with comments, dedications in graffiti, and an apocalyptic vision of Botticelli. | Continue reading
If Ventura checks the security of apps more thoroughly, how does it go about that? Gatekeeper explored, from XProtect to OCSP checks. | Continue reading
Born not far from Lviv when it was still in the Kingdom of Galicia, he trained in Poland, but painted for much of his career in the city of Lviv. | Continue reading
A revamped configuration profile to remove censored private data from log entries, and how to get network diagnostic data too. | Continue reading
Tragic stories of great paintings that no longer look anything like their originals, from Leonardo da Vinci and William Blake. | Continue reading
Are additional Gatekeeper checks in Ventura effective, and worth the effort? Surely malware can bypass them easily. | Continue reading