Paris, Prince of Troy, is the perfect pawn in Zeus’s plan for war. He develops a taste for beautiful women, then accepts Aphrodite’s bribe in the beauty contest of the three goddesses. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 193. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Pianist’s notes for typing and shortcuts. Click for a solution keyboard Pianist’s no… | Continue reading
macOS has changed fundamentally. So has troubleshooting it. Secure Boot, the SSV, and Gatekeeper checks bring changes in strategy. | Continue reading
The Ouled Naïl come from the south of Algeria, in the foothills of the Atlas Mountains. Paintings by those who lived in Algeria and got to know them. | Continue reading
Two updates to macOS security tools and the malware they protect against, including a test of XProtect Remediator against KeySteal. | Continue reading
Artists started to visit Algeria after the French invaded the country in 1830. Paintings of history, places and some scenes, especially in Constantine. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Pianist’s notes for typing and shortcuts. 2: Stiff card on a hardback to contain what&#… | Continue reading
How to give apps, folders and files custom icons, and how that still uses resource forks, just as it did back in 1984. | Continue reading
Covering the Norns, Dagr, Nótt, Ægir, Gefjon, Bragi, Iðunn, Hervör, and the Wild Hunt or Åsgårdsreien. | Continue reading
Is the performance overhead of using APFS Encrypted volumes to store sensitive data a reason for not doing so? | Continue reading
Apple has just released an update to XProtect Remediator security software for Macs running Catalina or later, bringing it to version 91. Version 90 doesn’t appear to have been released. Appl… | Continue reading
Covering Thor, Odin, Valhalla, Valkyries, Freyja, Loki, and Baldr in paintings. | Continue reading
A new way to enter fallback Recovery can now be triggered during a restart. Here’s a full review of primary and fallback Recovery modes for M1 and M2 Macs. | Continue reading
Born in Odesa, he settled to the north of Kharkiv, painting en plein air in a detailed Impressionist style. He had a particular love of wild plants. | Continue reading
Detailed account from the decision to start making an automatic backup to its final reporting and completion, for Ventura 13.2.1 to local storage. | Continue reading
Asphalt has been claimed to be responsible for the slow destruction and loss of many paintings, from the ‘Raft of the Medusa’ on. The evidence is tenuous. | Continue reading
From choosing cables and hubs to connecting displays, fast SSDs and other devices. Everything you wanted to know about Thunderbolt. | Continue reading
Zeus comes up with a plan to reduce the number of mortals, and completes one of the first two steps, marrying Thetis to a mortal. And what a wedding feast, thanks to Eris. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 192. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Brisk march for multimedia from 1991, but frozen since Mojave. Click for a solution QuickTime Br… | Continue reading
What happens to read and write speeds of three SSDs connected to the same hub, and working at the same time? Can they exceed the maximum of 3 GB/s? | Continue reading
Stories of Odysseus and Circe, the prodigal son, the miracle of the Gadarene swine, and St Anthony. And Félicien Rops’ ‘Pornocrates’? | Continue reading
If you have more than a couple of Thunderbolt peripherals, should you be thinking of getting a Thunderbolt 4 hub? | Continue reading
Paintings by Paulus Potter, George Morland, James Ward, Gustave Courbet, and others, showing plenty of pigs. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Brisk march for multimedia from 1991, but frozen since Mojave. 2: Rapid information from spac… | Continue reading
Run Catalina or later and there are two XProtects in the CoreServices folder. But they’re completely different, as this explains. | Continue reading
Examples of painted fables from the 19th century, from Landseer, Millet, Moreau, Klimt, Morisot, Hodler, and Pierre Bonnard. | Continue reading
You’re running bit short of disk space, so put tens of GB of old files into the Trash, then empty it. Why doesn’t the amount of free space increase? | Continue reading
Without a title and the story in a fable, paintings can be hard to identify, and even harder to read. Examples from 1500-1751. | Continue reading
Apple silicon Macs are better-equipped to prevent and deal with disaster. Restoring in DFU mode is extremely unusual, and more powerful than anything you can do with an Intel Mac. | Continue reading
Apple has just pushed a surprise update to XProtect (not Remediator) security software, bringing it to version 2166. Apple doesn’t release information about what security issues this update m… | Continue reading
In twenty years, he established himself as a leading figurative painter and portraitist, then was murdered. Now his remaining paintings are under threat. | Continue reading
What happens when you connect two fast SSDs to your Mac and they both write or read at the same time? How do they perform when connected through a hub? And how does it pay to be a winner? | Continue reading
Series telling the whole Epic Cycle from Zeus’s decision to reduce the mortal population, to the death of Odysseus. | Continue reading
You pay hundreds of $$ for a high-speed Thunderbolt SSD, then connect it to a hub. Will it still deliver the same performance? Maybe not when writing. | Continue reading
The colours you see in paintings today may have faded badly from their originals. Examples of madder lake, smalt and indigo. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 191. Here are my solutions to them. 1: No matter what the content of a text file, I am always at its end. Click for a solution txt or t… | Continue reading
Did your Mac take a brief trip into Recovery after the 13.2.1 update? What is authenticated restart, and how could you use it? What does fdesetup do? | Continue reading
The myth of Deucalion and Pyrrha, and others, painted by Rubens, Poussin, John Martin, and real floods by Alfred Sisley. | Continue reading
Something wrong with your Mac? Why not ask ChatGPT, or the new Bing, to diagnose it and recommend a solution? | Continue reading
Painted accounts of the great flood from Genesis, by Michelangelo, Elsheimer, Thomas Cole, JMW Turner and others. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: No matter what the content of a text file, I am always at its end. 2: Last thing on a real es… | Continue reading
Kernel extensions, system extensions, app/Finder/Safari extensions are all very different, as explained here. | Continue reading
He started his training in Kyiv, and after being a professor at the Imperial Academy, he returned to teach in Kyiv, and co-found its Art School in 1900. | Continue reading
Yes, you can notarize command tools. Doing so ensures independent approval that the code isn’t malicious, and disapproval, letting macOS block code with revoked certificates or notarization. | Continue reading
His later years brought one of the few paintings of Nemesis, an influence on Géricault’s ‘Raft of the Medusa’, and a portrait of the infant King of Rome. | Continue reading
Current apps may need to install helper files in the main Library folder for Background Items. Ventura’s new scheme keeps everything in the app bundle. | Continue reading
Apple has just released an update to bring Big Sur to version 11.7.4. Although a security update, Apple has stated that, for the moment, “this update has no published CVE entries”. In o… | Continue reading
An unconventional portrait of an Empress, who reclines on a stone bench beneath dark trees. She looks pensive if not slightly wistful, and not Imperial in the least. | Continue reading