Virtual Machines for lightweight virtualisation on Apple silicon Macs rely on sparse files. Here are tips to ensure they stay small and don’t explode to full size. | Continue reading
A summary history from 1700 to the 20th century, with examples of major paintings, and links to each of the detailed articles in this series. | Continue reading
macOS may alert you when you’re trying to open or run a file, with an alert informing you that malware was detected. But what about in scans? | Continue reading
This brisk oil sketch of fog and the rising sun in Monet’s home port of Le Havre lent its name to that for the whole movement. | Continue reading
Samples of four malicious software downloaded and run on macOS 13.1. Could it detect and block them effectively? Or do you need 3rd party protection? | Continue reading
The English king who sealed Magna Carta in 1215, this tells of the treachery of his nobles, changing allegiances, and a death from dysentery. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 184. Here are my solutions to them. 1: When Messages came from iChat, with Gatekeeper and the first mini tablet. Click for a solution 2… | Continue reading
How APFS containers and volumes work. What hard links, clones and sparse files are, and when they break down. | Continue reading
Coming this New Year are the tercentenary of the birth of Sir Joshua Reynolds, the bicentenary of the birth of Alexandre Cabanel, and the centenary of the untimely death of Joaquín Sorolla. | Continue reading
The M1 series shot from 4 performance cores to 16, Ventura turned up as an update instead of an upgrade, then there came cryptexes, System Settings and Stage Manager. | Continue reading
Invented by Paracelsus and popularised in a novella, poems and plays, Ondine became popular in painting, then in 1962 in medicine. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through into the New Year. 1: When Messages came from iChat, with Gatekeeper and the first mini tablet. 2: Time for a rendezvous with a flat-s… | Continue reading
XProtect Remediator takes on XCSSET (DubRobber) malware. Does it detect and remove it? | Continue reading
Shipwreck in The Tempest, forgotten Impressionists, a threshing machine, a weekend on the River Seine, a pair of portraits of Thomas and Susan Eakins, a pair of clowns, and more. | Continue reading
You’re in control of a traditional file system, but with snapshots, clones, sparse files and other volumes sharing free space, APFS isn’t as simple. | Continue reading
Don Quixote, Netherlandish Proverbs, grain fields in Ukraine, a flock of sheep in a boat, the Golden Horn, pastels and kabkabs. | Continue reading
Changes in Endpoint Security in Ventura allow it to be used to monitor the results of anti-malware scans performed by XProtect Remediator. Are they better than the log? | Continue reading
Paul Signac, Paul Nash, Pierre Bonnard, Lovis Corinth and others, even a painting by Paul Klee, for an eclectic collection. | Continue reading
Refactored for a smoother experience and with control over shared folders, Viable beta 7 now has a sandboxed and locked-down sibling ViableS, ideal for research. | Continue reading
Félix Vallotton, George Clausen, George Bellows, and others, including two unusual paintings of Iceland’s volcanoes. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Christmas Mac Riddles, episode 183. Here are my solutions to them. 1: A communist Canadian discovered in 1811, according to Jef. Click for a solution Macint… | Continue reading
ResEdit changed what was in the resource fork. With Mac OS X, Apple moved away from forks to extended attributes, now used for quarantine flags and more. | Continue reading
Modern interpretations of the adorations of the shepherds and the three kings or magi, from William Blake to Sichulski’s triptychs in 1938. | Continue reading
Fixes a problem exporting log entries in CSV format, and provides information about current log length. Happy Boxing Day! | Continue reading
Modern interpretations of this highly popular theme in Christian religious painting, from William Blake to Joseph Stella in 1929-33. | Continue reading
Over the last 6 months, many users have wanted to check XProtect anti-malware scans in their Mac’s log. Haven’t they been disappointed? | Continue reading
Modern interpretations of this popular traditional theme in Christian religious painting, from Pre-Raphaelite to the end of the 19th century. | Continue reading
Here are a special Christmas weekend’s riddles to entertain you through the festivities. 1: A communist Canadian discovered in 1811, according to Jef. 2: Found in a pub gutter, it’s a c… | Continue reading
How does the Finder know the right app to open a file with? Or QuickLook how to preview its contents? Or other services like Spotlight know how to index and handle files? UTIs. | Continue reading
Barefoot and sometimes surprising, as Christ washes the disciples’ feet, and other feet are missing altogether. Barefoot means poverty too. | Continue reading
It’s a fair and simple question: how much free space is needed to update Ventura from 13.0 to 13.1? Is it 2.53, 12.97, 13.22, 13.56 or 14 GB? | Continue reading
Only the gods wore sandals in the ancient world. Then the state of your footwear told much about you, with fashion opting for the outrageously impractical. | Continue reading
Does your Mac’s log go back far enough to be useful, or is it full of junk? Here’s how to control what takes up space, and a new version of Mints to help. | Continue reading
Two last Pre-Raphaelite artists, Evelyn De Morgan and Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, brought narrative painting to a close in the twentieth century. | Continue reading
Checking your Mac’s log assumes that the records are still there. What happens when they only last 24 hours, and you’re looking for anti-malware scans run once a day? | Continue reading
Eleven of those who showed their work at the First Impressionist Exhibition have now all but disappeared. | Continue reading
What’s the difference between plain text, marked-up plain text, and rich text? How can I tell them apart, and how do they work? | Continue reading
Paintings by Vuillard, Pierre Bonnard, Dagnan-Bouveret, LA Ring, and others all completed a century ago. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 182. Here are my solutions to them. 1: This cat with a pride was intended to be download-only and brought AirDrop. Click for a solution… | Continue reading
Invaluable tool for identifying and locating some problems, for troublesome updates, clearing caches and more. | Continue reading
Views painted of Cairo and other parts of Egypt, including Thomas Seddon, Alberto Pasini, Jean-Léon Gérôme and the Australian Impressionist Arthur Streeton. | Continue reading
It’s well over 4 years since Apple introduced notarization, but many executables still aren’t properly signed, and require the user to bypass Gatekeeper. | Continue reading
A little of the history of Egypt, from Books of the Dead in 1300 BCE, up to Napoleon’s campaign there between 1798-1801. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: This cat with a pride was intended to be download-only and brought AirDrop. 2: Hybrid can bar… | Continue reading
Is reinstalling macOS still a useful solution to problems? What about installing macOS updates, or resetting the NVRAM and SMC? | Continue reading
Before we masked up for Covid, covering the face had connotations. Here they’re explored, from the niqāb and widow’s veil to the aversion that makes us voyeur. | Continue reading
Download some vital free software, mount its disk image, run the Installer package there – but why does Ventura refuse to install it, and what you do? | Continue reading
In the latter half of the 19th century, a new narrative form developed, primarily among British painters: the open narrative, or problem picture. | Continue reading