Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: The periodical […] | Continue reading
Introduced in System 7 in 1991, long before symbolic and hard links became available in Mac OS X, they've been revised and extended to bookmarks since. | Continue reading
All the articles in this series, from Aerial Perspective to Zeitgeist. | Continue reading
One cause of an app crashing as soon as it's launched, these constraints prevent you from running bundled apps copied elsewhere, and can now be used by third-party apps. | Continue reading
Preparing the soil to deliver its best yields using a mould-board or turning plough, pulled by a team of oxen, helps the soil drain and breaks it up into a fine tilth ready for sowing. | Continue reading
What if you want to boot your Mac using two or more different versions of macOS, with different versions of APFS? Here's how to avoid problems. | Continue reading
Ridden by Napoleon, crossing Australian desert, walking on the beach at Aqaba, on the streets of Tbilisi, in North Africa and Arabia. | Continue reading
Why disable the whole of SIP when all you need is to disable some of its features? Here are all the options explained, and how to combine them. | Continue reading
Apple has just released an update to XProtect Remediator security software for Catalina or later, bringing it to […] | Continue reading
In Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights, animals charmed by Orpheus, the story of Rebecca and Eliezer, and accompanying the three Magi to the Nativity. | Continue reading
Sonoma 14.4 added support for exclaves and conclaves, which are used in Sequoia's virtual machines. What is an exclave, and what does it add? | Continue reading
Fathered by King Aegeus and Poseidon, after revealing sandals and a sword, Medea tried to poison him with aconite to stop him knowing his father. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 269. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Palmtop […] | Continue reading
Explanations of how macOS updates work, and their differences between minor updates for Catalina and Sonoma. | Continue reading
Princess, sorceress, seductress, wife, mother, and vengeful filicide - which is the true face of Medea, and why shouldn't you try to paint her? | Continue reading
On my Magic Trackpad, Force Click vanished. As it had recently updated its firmware, it looked like that update had caused the problem, although that no longer makes sense. Does your Magic Trackpad have the same problem? | Continue reading
A woman who became pregnant as a result of incest, whose only portrait is in the Vatican Museums, and another whose husband was first to be killed in the war against Troy, whose painting is near Nelson's dockyard. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Palmtop with […] | Continue reading
After a batch of new MacBook Pros were delivered with SIP disabled: LockRattler (December 2016), EFIcienC then SilentKnight (July 2019), and here's what version 3 should look like. | Continue reading
An introduction to a new series tracing the history of the countryside in fine paintings. Explains why some English country lanes have so many twisting bends. | Continue reading
Although macOS won't tell, Apparency will, even down to launch constraints. Other alternatives, and how to check in the command line. | Continue reading
Aesculapius, Psyche, the Esquiline Venus, views in Roman villas, Queen Sheba visiting King Solomon, storm nymphs, and a lascivious dance. | Continue reading
How has the System changed in numbers since Mojave? Why has the number of kernel extensions risen since their deprecation? Why so many Private Frameworks? | Continue reading
The horse in chivalry, carrying Mazeppa or Haidamak insurgent, in the circus, racing riderless through Rome, and in Vernet's studio. | Continue reading
How large were Sonoma's updates? How many were unscheduled patches? Why were there no RSRs? What does Sequoia hold in store? | Continue reading
Apollo's chariot, that of Pluto and Achilles, the Trojan Horse, Lady Godiva's, and the mount of Saint George when he slays the dragon. | Continue reading
An extended tutorial-review of Mountain Lion Server, OS X Server 2.2, written in 2012-13, with copious screenshots. | Continue reading
Medea tricks the daughters of King Pelias into trying to rejuvenate their father, and they end up killing him. She splits up with Jason, then murders their two sons. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 268. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Notice […] | Continue reading
Update adds two new datestamp fields, and gives decimal seconds in times. Use this app to explore how macOS sets those on files, as shown. | Continue reading
After some history paintings, he travelled to Venice, where many of his finest paintings were made. Then he fell ill with TB and died when he was only 25. | Continue reading
While other Macs had happily updated XProtect's data in the normal way, my Sequoia beta system told me it was out of date, and refused to find an updater. Then I recalled an old tweet. | Continue reading
He painted successful watercolour views of Paris before he turned 18, and went on to paint across Europe in oils and watercolours that had great influence. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Notice how […] | Continue reading
How is it going to be harder to run apps that haven't been notarized in Sequoia, and does it bring any benefit in return for the inconvenience? | Continue reading
First Slade Professor, Principal of what became the Royal College of Art, Director of the National Gallery, and President of the Royal Academy, yet now forgotten. | Continue reading
How to update XProtect from a version number of 0 to 5271 in a single command, with the aid of a new version of SilentKnight. | Continue reading
Some of the greatest paintings forming the zeitgeist of the genre, from Poussin, Rubens, Valenciennes, Turner, Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, and others. | Continue reading
Sequoia doesn't use previous tools to update and maintain XProtect, so causes havoc with apps like Skint and SilentKnight. Two updates should help. | Continue reading
Apple has just released security update to bring macOS Sonoma to version 14.6.1, and Ventura to 13.6.9. There’s […] | Continue reading
Some of the greatest works of Impressionism, including Monet and Renoir's 'Bathers at la Grenouillère', and one of Bazille's last works. | Continue reading
What can cause low copy speeds for very large and possibly sparse files, such as VMs? Causes explained, and tools you can use to discover why. | Continue reading
Apple has just released updates to XProtect Remediator security software (Catalina or later), bringing it to version 141, […] | Continue reading
Stories involving swimmers, including Hero and Leander, the Ship of Fools, and a poem by Thomas Gray, with paintings by Bosch, Rubens and others. | Continue reading
How long does Apple continue to provide firmware updates for a model once it has been introduced? Results from 40 different models since 2009. | Continue reading
Jason's father was too old to celebrate his son's success in getting the Golden Fleece, so his wife Medea uses sorcery to wind the clock back and make him young again. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 267. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Where […] | Continue reading
Everything you need to know about Containers, Group Containers and Daemon Containers, providing a sandboxed Home folder for apps. | Continue reading