Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all supported versions of macOS, bringing it to version […] | Continue reading
Views from outside looking up and in, including David and Bathsheba, Romeo and Juliet, an early plein air landscape, and Goya's majas. | Continue reading
Full screen single window, freestyle overlapping, tiled, full screen split view, Stage Manager, Spaces and Mission Control - each pictured and explained. | Continue reading
Stories of shape-shifters who could morph readily into animals and even inanimate objects. Includes Proteus, Erysichthon's daughter, and leads on to Achelous himself. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 277. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Volatile […] | Continue reading
The only disk images of varying size used to be sparse bundles and sparse disk images. Now plain read-write disk images can also vary in the disk space they take, as explained here. | Continue reading
Paintings by Martín Rico, a Spaniard who painted in Venice ever summer, and died in the city, Renoir, John Henry Twachtman, Frank Duveneck, Boudin, and others. | Continue reading
In Sequoia, dragging a window to the edge of the display could suddenly enlarge it to cover the whole screen. Finding the control in System Settings isn't straightforward, and there's no Undo either. | Continue reading
Landscape and history painter who progressed from realist, through Barbizon to Impressionism, then his views caught fire. Spectacular landscapes indeed. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Volatile anaesthetic […] | Continue reading
From a desk accessory Choose Printer, to the Chooser, then Print Centre, Print & Fax, and Print & Scan, how printer support has changed. | Continue reading
She continued to paint during the final years of her life, expressing her concern at deforestation. Here are some of her most radical works. | Continue reading
It's easy to ensure that SilentKnight won't inadvertently install an upgrade to Sequoia, but still updates the security data files you want. Here's how. | Continue reading
Paintings of fields of buckwheat (not a cereal at all), sainfoin (ideal for horses), flax (oil paints and linen), and clover. And how the Dutch Golden Age changed its agriculture. | Continue reading
You've just installed an update to XProtect in Sequoia, so why doesn't it change the version number? How to fix this common problem. | Continue reading
More from Raphael, Reynolds, and the artist's family of Frédéric Bazille, Lovis Corinth and others. All you need to know is who, where and when. | Continue reading
Which are the best tools for the occasional user? For someone who creates disk images to distribute sofware? Or for hacking sparse bundles? | Continue reading
Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all supported versions of macOS, bringing it to version […] | Continue reading
From Rembrandt to Velázquez, Goya, Courbet and Fantin-Latour, reading group portraits can be complicated and demanding. | Continue reading
When do sparse files explode to full size, and how could you preserve them in transit? Can you copy clones or snapshots? How to preserve extended attributes? | Continue reading
A poor couple entertained two men as well as they could in their humble cottage. Their guests turned out to be Jupiter and Mercury, who rewarded them for their hospitality. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 276. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Armour, […] | Continue reading
Focussing on sparse bundles and UDIF read-write disk images, this explains their types, structure, how their size can change, and how fast they are in use. | Continue reading
Paintings by Richard Parkes Bonington, Edward Lear, JMW Turner, and John Ferguson Weir, during the revival of interest in Venice. | Continue reading
The Finder uses a small grammar, which ensures its consistency. iCloud Drive is already an exception with evicted files, and pinning is highly inconsistent, and not designed for humans. | Continue reading
One of the first serious landscape painters in Europe, contemporary and friend of Dürer, and originator of the World View, a precursor to the panorama. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Armour, postal […] | Continue reading
As Mac hard disks grew larger, fragmentation of file data, file system metadata and free space slowed the disk down. Here's how we used to solve that. | Continue reading
Sculptural form first in the totems of First Nations peoples, then deep in the forest of British Columbia, and seascapes of the Strait of Juan de Fuca. | Continue reading
Overnight European time, Apple released a small but urgent update to macOS Sequoia, bringing it to version 15.0.1. […] | Continue reading
In Sequoia, XProtect's data is now updated in a different way. Does this change its capabilities, though? A quick dip into YARA files has the answer. | Continue reading
Sheep were the best mobile source of dung, and used to fertilise the soil used to raise crops such as staple cereals, wheat and rye. They also provided fleeces to generate the wool trade. | Continue reading
From dispatch of a new automatic backup, through computing which items need to be backed up, cleaning up snapshots and old backups, to success at the end. | Continue reading
Sargent's hospital tent, Arab camps, Shoshone below Lander's Peak, Sami in Lapland, clubs on Derby Day, the Big Top, and on holiday. | Continue reading
Pinning files and folders in iCloud Drive behaves differently, and can readily become frustrating. Behaviours explained, with an update to Cirrus to housekeep pinned files. | Continue reading
Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all supported versions of macOS, bringing it to version […] | Continue reading
Their use by armies of the distant past, in the war against Troy, the sack of Rome, the Battle of Issus, by Alexander the Great, and in Crusades. | Continue reading
Notarization is now obligatory for developers, but at the same time, we're still able to run our own apps that aren't notarized. Here's how that works, and why. | Continue reading
Meleager is killed by his own mother in a strange way, then Ovid cuts to a feast thrown by the river god Achelous to entertain Theseus and others. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 275. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Traced […] | Continue reading
If you have Optimise Mac Storage enabled, pinning files you want kept locally is a valuable new feature, but has its quirks, and could get your Mac into trouble. | Continue reading
Paintings from Childe Hassam of his summer campaigns on Appledore Island, and from Robert Henri and his pupil George Bellows, mainly from the 20th century. | Continue reading
Autumn has come, and it's time to suffer Apple's annual upgrade game-playing. Will you be tricked into installing Sequoia, or allowed voluntary informed consent? | Continue reading
Paintings from 1845 by Thomas Cole, Frederic Edwin Church his pupil, Winslow Homer, and other American artists from the 18th century. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Traced in […] | Continue reading
Introduced in 1997, Apple System Profiler gave detailed information about a Mac's hardware and software. Later came Gestalt, a dictionary of useful info about a Mac. | Continue reading
Following her flop in 1913, she painted seldom, but started travelling and painting again in the late 1920s. By 1930 she had established and international reputation. | Continue reading
APFS or HFS+? Which can Time Machine back up to? What about hard disks? Which format for use on PCs? And which are supported by Disk Utility now? | Continue reading