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
Forgotten until revived in 2005, his paintings now fetch millions. Hauntingly empty, almost monochrome, and often with his wife facing away from the viewer. | Continue reading
Is there a Secure Exclave Processor in M4 chips, a sister to the Secure Enclaves in Macs with T1, T2 or Apple silicon chips? What are they, and what do they do? | Continue reading
Giorgione's Tempest, Cuyp's Thunderstorm over Dordrecht, Delacroix, a prairie on fire, and viewing lightning safely indoors. | Continue reading
How to create a custom preset to use for your display's colour profile, how you can make use of measurements of a colorimeter, or adjust white point by eye. | Continue reading
Jupiter's bundle of thunderbolts that have survived into computer technology, lightning in great floods, in the destruction of Tyre, and the three witches in Macbeth. | Continue reading
The bar chart in Storage Settings shows most of your startup volume is full of System Data. What does it mean, and what use is it? Is its measure of used and free space accurate? | Continue reading
Apple has just released a security update to macOS Sequoia to bring it to version 15.3.1, and security […] | Continue reading
The Greek fleet is stuck in the port of Aulis due to strong winds and heavy seas. A seer tells Agamemnon the only solution is to sacrifice his daughter to Diana. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 294. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Cool […] | Continue reading
Easy to code, these don't need to use XPC although it's used by the DAS-CTS scheduling and dispatch system. They aren't run at constant time intervals, but when appropriate according to other loads. | Continue reading
Mud during the Franco-Prussian War, in Nordic countryside, and enveloping everything including the dead during the First World War. | Continue reading
Achieving reliable colour reproduction with computers drew from several fields from neurophysiology to physics. Could it have been accomplished by anything other than humans? | Continue reading
How the rich paid to walk on planks to cross muddy streets, and hussars helped ladies over mud ruts, children at play, roads in London and Leeds, and a cheeky ploughboy. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Cool colour […] | Continue reading
First released in 1993 to support colour printing, version 2.0 in 1995 brought fuller features and ICC support. Still going strong despite the decline of colour printing. | Continue reading
Iron and steel mills and foundries, a printing shop, a lead mine still employing children, and spinners - all relentlessly demanding, without lighter work. | Continue reading
Adding your own custom icons to files and folders goes back a long way, to Classic Mac OS […] | Continue reading
From those run and staffed by religious orders around 1600 to the 19th century's revolution in nursing, and dazzlingly white interiors with radiators. | Continue reading
Spring will soon be upon us, and it's time to plan our Spring software housekeeping to clear out the junk that has accumulated over the winter. How to go about it. | Continue reading
Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all supported versions of macOS, bringing it to version […] | Continue reading
By the late 19th century, presses were churning out posters promoting events and products. Some came to appear in paintings of Paris and other places. | Continue reading
How does XProtect Remediator scan your Mac once a day? What has gone wrong when it doesn't appear to work? Explained from its property lists to its three different types of scan. | Continue reading
Popularised with large-format colour printing in the middle of the 19th century, there appear in several paintings where they contribute to the reading. | Continue reading
Sequoia 15.3 results in significant improvements in read-write speeds of SSDs connection through Thunderbolt 5 docks and hubs. Here are the details and implications for choosing SSDs. | Continue reading
How Daedalion was turned into a hawk, a wolf was turned into marble, King Ceyx and his wife became kingfishers, and Aesacus was turned into a diver. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 293. Here are my solutions to them. 1: 42, […] | Continue reading
Apple silicon laptops start up (if not asleep) when you open their lid or connect power. Now you can change that behaviour by setting their NVRAM. | Continue reading