You've just updated to 14.4 or 14.4.1 and are prompted to set up a new Recovery Key for FileVault. What do you do next, and how should you check the key? | Continue reading
The fairy tale of the Frog Prince, the fable of The Frogs who Demand a King, frogs at the Fall of Man, and dangling from a kite tail above Strasbourg. | Continue reading
Introduced in iOS 10.3 on 27 March 2017, then in macOS 10.13 six months later. It ups and downs, and where it still has further to go. | Continue reading
Apple has just released the now-regular weekly update to XProtect for all versions of macOS from El Capitan […] | Continue reading
The Lycians turned into frogs when they refused the goddess Latona a drink of water, and the sorceress Medea accompanied by toads. | Continue reading
With the heat of summer drawing near, it's time to consider keeping our Macs and their peripherals cool. Covers thermal paste, heat sinks, fans and more. | Continue reading
Apple has released updates to bring macOS Sonoma to version 14.4.1, build 23E224, and that for Ventura 13.6.6. […] | Continue reading
One of Ovid's weirdest tales, in which Juno convinces the pregnant Semele to demand her lover Jupiter reveals himself, resulting in her death, caesarian section and his surrogate pregnancy. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 248. Here are my solutions to them. 1: With […] | Continue reading
B+trees, directory records, directory and file names and Unicode normalisation, and whatever happened to the promise of fast directory sizing? | Continue reading
Repoussoir through windows, doors, then invading the middle of the painting with Corot and Pissarro, before Cézanne inverted it altogether. | Continue reading
We're almost unaware of clone files, and how they've changed macOS. But look at most documents that have been saved more than once, and you'll see they've now be cloned. | Continue reading
How repoussoir originated in figurative painting, and came to become a popular compositional technique for landscapes from Giorgione to Turner. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: With emoji […] | Continue reading
Has Apple fallen behind in ML and AI? Why hasn't it got its own Large Language Model, and how can it possibly catch up now? | Continue reading
Landscape paintings by Daubigny, Sisley, Berkos, Astrup, Pissarro, Julian Onderdonk, Granville Redmond, Théo van Rysselberghe and others. | Continue reading
What happens when you press and hold the e key? Does it repeat, or do you see a window offering accented versions? Do you know you can change that? | Continue reading
Convert a document into a folder containing all its saved versions, and unarchive that folder back into a document with all those saved versions. All using drag-and-drop. | Continue reading
From 1925, he moved away from themes common with his teacher Friedrich and developed his own Gothic Romanticism. | Continue reading
There's a problem with your Mac, so you try starting it up in Recovery. But that doesn't work. What should try next? Intel and Apple silicon Macs are then quite different. | Continue reading
After 1850, there was a resurgence of expressions of the emptiness and futility of earthly life, with symbols of death and transience of ephemeral objects. | Continue reading
Understanding how APFS works: inodes, attributes, file extents, extended attributes, and how they change with editing and cloning. | Continue reading
Apple has just released updates to XProtect Remediator security software (Catalina or later), bringing it to version 129, […] | Continue reading
Originating in the Northern Renaissance, these paintings expressed feelings of emptiness, and the futility of earthly life. Examples of these elaborate allegories. | Continue reading
How to reproduce this serious bug in Sonoma 14.4, and how to archive all the versions of a file or document so they can't get destroyed. | Continue reading
Have noticed brief periods of high CPU for universalaccessd in Sonoma? Do you know what com.apple.axserver is and why it can't be found? Can you help with this puzzle? | Continue reading
Do you use saved versions in documents? If a file is evicted by you or macOS, then all saved versions will now be removed, and lost forever. How to work around this serious bug. | Continue reading
The grandson of the founder of Thebes happens into Diana's sacred wood when out hunting, and sees the goddess naked. She changes him into a stag, with fatal consequences. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 247. Here are my solutions to them. 1: A […] | Continue reading
Step by step through moving to iCloud Drive, eviction to a dataless file, materialisation of local data, editing and syncing with iCloud Drive. | Continue reading
Gambling among soldiers and young boys, games of Pharo, l'hombre, poker, and the Casino at Monte-Carlo. | Continue reading
How do the SMC and CoreDuet manage the systems in your Mac, and should you fiddle with them? | Continue reading
Gambling as a sure road to Hell, with Bosch, Caravaggio, Georges de la Tour, Hogarth, Géricault, Courbet, Rossetti, and others. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: A thousand […] | Continue reading
Simply having a boot volume group with a System snapshot in it won't get your Mac to start up from that disk, particularly if it's an Apple silicon model. Some details. | Continue reading
Pontoise by Pissarro, Paul Nash's Berkshire Downs, Rosa Bonheur's teams of oxen ploughing, and Grant Wood's Iowa prairie. | Continue reading
Secure Boot and its 5 stages, the SSV, support for external bootable disks, the SEP, Recovery, and lightweight virtualisation. | Continue reading
A polymath who was professor of obstetrics, he became Friedrich’s pupil in 1814. They shared locations and the use of Rückenfiguren. | Continue reading
Killed by Jupiter’s thunderbolts when she insisted he proved his identity, this myth is a reminder that making something more secure isn’t always a good answer. | Continue reading
In landscapes by Rubens, Constable, Ford Madox Brown, Frederic Edwin Church, Millet, Pissarro, Breton, and Prendergast. | Continue reading
Ever been tempted to turn on this feature, or maybe you use it already? Do you know how it works, and whether it preserves your files fully? | Continue reading
Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all versions of macOS from El Capitan or so, bringing it to version 2189. Apple doesn’t release information about what security issues this u… | Continue reading
The primary attribute of Iris, with the soothing song of Amphitrite, bearing the Norse deities to Valhalla, the sign of God's covenant after the Flood, and at the Last Judgement. | Continue reading
History from Mac Portable's led acid to the latest lithium-polymer. But how should you manage your Mac's battery? What about when in storage or heat? | Continue reading
Europa’s brother Cadmus is told to found a new city wherever a cow leads him. After killing a man-eating dragon, he sows its teeth in the soil. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 246. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Once a Latin American dance on 445, it’s a year older than the Mac, and now the shared sta… | Continue reading
It lets you evict files so their data is only held in iCloud Drive, freeing up local space. But would to get into storage debt as a results? | Continue reading
Degas' Miss La La, a clown feeding a baby, cruelty to performers and animals, the misery of the Saltimbanques, and the melancholy of clowns. | Continue reading