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
Of all Ovid's Heroines, the most successful, as she both survived and got her revenge on the treacherous Theseus. | Continue reading
When we were updating to macOS 14.6, Apple released the first beta of 15.1 to developers. Does this mean it's skipping straight past 15.0 to bring you its new AI tools? | Continue reading
Who is this deeply troubled woman, only known for her attempted abduction by the Centaur Nessus? And how did she bring about Hercules' death? | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Where the […] | Continue reading
A replacement for the NetInfo service in NeXTSTEP and early Mac OS X, Open Directory is an LDAPv3 service delivered as Directory Services, and essential to permissions, authentication and more. | Continue reading
Yellow for harvest at the end of the dry summer. Also mixed with blues and greens, although sometimes not proving lightfast. | Continue reading
How can you use San Francisco, the system font for macOS and Apple's other OSes? An example traced through from macOS internals to PDF and HTML. | Continue reading
An overview of the German Romantic painters including Caspar David Friedrich and JC Dahl, with links to all the original articles in this series. | Continue reading
Three new versions that are compatible with Writing Tools in Sequoia 15.1 beta, and should perform better in other recent versions of macOS. | Continue reading
Largely restricted among Classical deities to Hermes, Cupid, and personifications of winds, heavenly bodies, and events, the gift of flight extends to angels and even saints. | Continue reading
Advanced settings for users have been moved out of Users & Groups, but are still accessible in Directory Utility for those who are careful not to do anything hazardous. | Continue reading
Humans have always wanted to fly, but Icarus warned us of the dangers. Despite those, Goethe's Faust, witches, and pioneers with hot air balloons seem to have succeeded. | Continue reading
Should you try changing NVRAM settings in an Apple silicon Mac? As they're almost certain to have no beneficial effect, and could require lengthy procedures to reset them, it's best not to try. | Continue reading
As I forecast only yesterday, Apple has today released macOS Sonoma version 14.6. According to its previous calendar, […] | Continue reading
Apple has just released the update to bring Sonoma to version 14.6, together with security updates to Ventura […] | Continue reading
Jason is given three tasks, in which he is aided by Medea the sorceress. First he yokes a team of fire-breathing bulls to plough a field, then sows dragon's teeth, before the prize of the Golden Fleece. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 266. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Skipper […] | Continue reading
Ownership can mean two very different things on Macs: it might be about Unix permissions, or Apple silicon boot policy. How to tell them apart so you use the right solution for ownership problems. | Continue reading
Superb paintings of the Kintyre coast, on the west coast of Scotland, painted between 1878 and 1897, in his distinctive style. | Continue reading
macOS Sonoma 14.6 is likely to be released next week, rather than as expected in September. How does this change future updates and which version you should be running? | Continue reading
Second-generation Icelandic painter, who died tragically young at only 32 of TB. Mostly views of Iceland, and religious works. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Skipper or […] | Continue reading
How we crashed and burned with the best of them, from recovery disks in classic Mac OS, to unexpected restarts and hidden panic logs. | Continue reading
Sixteen views of the River Thames and Houses of Parliament, painted between 1745 and 2006, showing where they were painted from. | Continue reading
How large should the drive be to store all your backups for the next couple of years? Here's how to work that out for Time Machine and other apps. | Continue reading
A Norwegian trained in Düsseldorf, he painted studies in oils in front of the motif, then developed them into finely detailed finished works in the studio. | Continue reading
The new version of Xcode coming for Sequoia can still support apps in High Sierra, but it nudges developers to drop support for all macOS before Big Sur. | Continue reading
Just monkeying about in the Dutch Golden Age, with cats in a barbershop, as a sculptor, and the amazing paintings of Gabriel von Max. | Continue reading
How 3rd party developers used KPIs for drivers and much else in kernel extensions. These are now being replaced progressively by System Extensions. This is the state of play. | Continue reading
Apple has just released updates to XProtect Remediator security software (Catalina or later), bringing it to version 140, […] | Continue reading
In some of the earliest European paintings, the Fall of Man, the fable of the cat's paw, in Vanitas paintings, and for their mischief and mayhem. | Continue reading
Improves performance by changing it log access to use the OSLog API, adds local time to its reports, and provides more space for long scanner names. | Continue reading
The beautiful Orithyia is betrothed to the north wind of winter, Boreas, but is rejected by her father. He takes matters into his own hands, and sweeps her off to be his wife. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 265. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Iron […] | Continue reading
What caused so many PCs running Windows to crash into the Blue Screen of Death? Could it happen to our Macs too? | Continue reading
Paintings of Istanbul and its surroundings by Alberto Pasini, Anders Zorn, Michael Zeno Diemer, Paul Signac, and pioneer Osman Hamdi Bey. | Continue reading
How does SwiftUI let the user enter dates and times in its Date Picker? The answer is without seconds, which are only allowed in watchOS. And it gets worse. | Continue reading
Paintings of Istanbul and its surroundings by Gérôme, Delacroix, Richard Dadd, Ivan Aivazovsky, and Alberto Pasini up to 1877. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Iron ore, […] | Continue reading
Classic Mac OS stored a great deal of structured data in the resource forks of its files. Those were edited using ResEdit, an essential tool for every advanced user. | Continue reading
In seascapes with waves, and on land with the foliage of trees. Paintings by Turner, Courbet, Gainsborough, Monet, Winslow Homer and more. | Continue reading
Equipping LogUI with controls to get log extracts from arbitrary periods in the past reveals two shortcomings: high memory use, and failure to release that. | Continue reading
Taught in Ivan Aivazovsky's studio in Crimea and the Imperial Academy in St Petersburg, he painted unusual nocturnes, including the River Dnipro. | Continue reading
How secure and private can you make a macOS VM on Apple silicon? Follow these steps to create your own private Mac within macOS. | Continue reading
If you are beta-testing macOS 15 Sequoia in a lightweight virtual machine on an Apple silicon Mac, beware […] | Continue reading
The incredible myth of Leda and the swan, the transformation of Phaëthon's brother Cycnus, King Arthur, Hesiod, Swan Pie and more. | Continue reading