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
Corot's view from the Boboli Gardens, Thomas Cole, John Brett's landscape masterwork, intimate view from local painters, and a portrait by Paul Sérusier. | Continue reading
If it's running Sequoia, a Mac most likely installed update to Sequoia silently. However, it could still download the Software Update version, as explained here. | Continue reading
Dante and Beatrice, the Black Death that opens Boccaccio's Decameron, the death of Brunelleschi, Botticelli in his studio, and the de' Medicis. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: 42, 3.14159, […] | Continue reading
From its clean and spartan origins in Classic MacOS, the Finder has changed it metaphor, and now works more like a browser. Over 25 years of history. | Continue reading
Crowded apartments in Montmartre, the Lower East Side in New York City, smoke in Charleroi and Dortmund, workers' cottages, and more smoke. | Continue reading
How to more than double the speed of a thread run on the E cores, by running another 11 threads at the same time. | Continue reading
Stairs to fall down, to sit in disgrace, or pose with your sibling? Stairs winding up and defying gravity, bearing ballet dancers, or in a Gothic prison. | Continue reading
Early testing of TB5 SSDs show they do deliver much faster speeds that even USB4 models, although not as high as some claim. But their cache size may limit streaming large amounts of data. | Continue reading
Apple has overnight released an update to XProtect for all supported versions of macOS, bringing it to version […] | Continue reading
Early today Apple released an update to XProtect for macOS Sequoia only bringing it to version 5286. As […] | Continue reading
The deaths of Demosthenes and Themistocles, Cleopatra's experimental toxicology, and Tristan and Isolde - was it poison or a love potion? | Continue reading
There's normally more than 500 background activities, like Time Machine backups and XProtect Remediator scans, waiting for dispatch in the list maintained by DAS. How this works. | Continue reading
The young Theseus is almost poisoned by Medea, Medea creates a poison potion for Jason to gain the Golden Fleece, the death of Socrates, and of Phocion. | Continue reading
Why do some Macs apparently not have Unified log files? Maybe it's because they're being deleted by a misguided housekeeping app. Here's what is going wrong, and what you should do to avoid that. | Continue reading
The macOS 15.3 update introduces Genmoji creation in Messages and other apps on Apple silicon Macs, and improves […] | Continue reading
Apple has just released the update to bring macOS Sequoia to version 15.3, together with security updates 14.7.3 […] | Continue reading
Laomedon refuses to pay the gods for helping built the walls of the first city of Troy. The Peleus marries Thetis, with a feast of the gods that sets up the Judgement of Paris. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 292. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Paul’s […] | Continue reading
Some services can only be run when a MacBook Air or Pro is awake and running on mains (AC) power. Here's a list, and what you can do to ensure their work still gets done. | Continue reading
Featuring paintings of The Giaour, The Bride of Abydos, Manfred, Sardanapalus, and two scenes from the second canto of Don Juan. | Continue reading
How can we tell where to look for all those files an app installs outside its bundle? Why not include a manifest inside that bundle so we can track down and delete them when doing the housekeeping? | Continue reading
A legend of a young Cossack who has an affair with a married countess in the Polish royal court, and is strapped to the back of a wild horse to ride to his death. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Paul’s creator […] | Continue reading
Since 2005, macOS has had the master launcher launchd and its LaunchAgents and LaunchDaemons. Then in 2014 Apple added Duet Activity Scheduler to run tasks when conditions are suitable. | Continue reading
Gullible young women trafficked into prostitution, or were whole families squeezed out because of cold weather, crop failure including potato blight, loss of common land, and war. | Continue reading
You're in a rush to eject an external disk, but the Finder tells you it's in use by unnamed apps. What should you do next, and what has Sloth to do with it? | Continue reading
Paintings by Gustave Courbet, Paul Signac, Marie Bracquemond, Vincent van Gogh, LA Ring, Carl Larsson, Maurice Denis, William McGregor Paxton, Édouard Vuillard, and Pierre Bonnard. | Continue reading
How to create and set up macOS VMs for virtualisers. The structure of a VM, creation and first run explained. How to enhance it, and how to run it in isolation. | Continue reading
Learning how to sew, gossiping over sewing, or sitting apart, professional seamstresses, Gauguin's odd nude, and Vallotton's sewing maid. | Continue reading
How macOS can not only regulate CPU cluster frequencies to control power use, but also moves threads to E cores. This reduces power use of over 50 W to less than 13 W. | Continue reading
Sewing for Garibaldi's redshirts, the flag of a castle, Sir Lancelot, fishermen and sailors, Pentecost costumes, and other purposes. | Continue reading
Which versions of macOS can run in a VM? Can they run Intel apps too, and Intel macOS? How well do they perform? Can they access iCloud and run App Store apps? | Continue reading
Bacchus granted him the boon that everything he touched turned to gold. When that proved disastrous, his power was washed away, but he then offended Apollo and was given the ears of an ass. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 291. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Lead-free […] | Continue reading
Provides maximum frequencies for E and P cores in each of the M-series, a table of all frequency steps used by current M-series chips, and explanation of how they have come about and their importance. | Continue reading
Paintings by Maurice Prendergast, Childe Hassam, Camille Pissarro, Pierre Bonnard, and others of these popular gardens in the centre of Paris. | Continue reading
It took over 6 months before creating bootable external disks was fairly reliable, and even then there were unexplained failures. Did someone fail to tell us something? | Continue reading