Early paintings from his time as a student in Paris, a series painted when he was on Capri in 1878, a portrait of his teacher, and exotic smoke. | Continue reading
Deleting clone files saves no space, but converting copies into clones could free up plenty of storage. Sparse files can also be highly efficient, and squeeze 285 GB into just 16.5 GB. | Continue reading
Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all supported versions of macOS, bringing it to version […] | Continue reading
From Dürer's groundbreaking hare to the fable of the hare and the tortoise, a hidden hare in a well-known Turner and a white rabbit for the first of the month? | Continue reading
Adds support for using your own filter predicates so you only see the log entries you want. Either in a one-off editor, or to its popup menu. | Continue reading
Apple has just released the update to macOS Sequoia to bring it to version 15.4, and security updates […] | Continue reading
Scylla accosted by the grotesque sea-god Glaucus. When she runs away from him, he seeks the help of Circe, only for her to turn Scylla into a pack of hounds, then into a hazard to navigation. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 301. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Roll […] | Continue reading
Systematic and thorough account of the structure and function of bootable external disks and dual-boot systems from High Sierra to Sequoia, and how to diagnose their problems. | Continue reading
As winter grew colder, Parisians started to starve. A city known for its food and restaurants had to scavenge meals based on horse, dog, cat and even rat. | Continue reading
The magic of Mac was how you could double-click a document and it opened in the right app. Now that works differently with LaunchServices, it offers me 70 apps to edit any text document. Can we return to magic please? | Continue reading
How conflicting ambitions took Napoleon III to war against Prussia when France was so ill-prepared. Defeat was inevitable, and soon Paris was under siege. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Roll pasted […] | Continue reading
Raymond Lau's hugely successful Stuffit dominated Mac compression utilities from introduction in 1987 until Mac OS X in 2001. Also a NuBus card, and most recently AppleArchive. | Continue reading
The urban poor, painted by Raffaëlli, George Breitner, Fernand Pelez, Christian Krohg, Geoffroy, Henningsen in cities across Europe. | Continue reading
Can you install macOS Sonoma on an external SSD for an Apple silicon Mac running Sequoia 15.3.2? So far this has defeated two of us on many attempts. With useful tips that should have brought success. | Continue reading
From a saint's integrated office, through tables with quills and ink-pots, to beautifully crafted furniture for the home office. | Continue reading
The hidden command tool lsregister can be used to control LaunchServices and its registry, but there are now snags in most of its features, as explained here. | Continue reading
At the ballet with Degas,Sargent's Spanish dancer, entertainment in North Africa, an Ionian dance, the Can-Can, Salome and the Dance of the Seven Veils. | Continue reading
Overview of how different subsystems work together during launching a notarized app, from LaunchServices to checking WritingTools and AI availability. | Continue reading
Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all supported versions of macOS, bringing it to version […] | Continue reading
A dance to the music of time, the hours, Muses, sirens, winged putti, faeries, maidens fearing death, mid-summer feasts and folk dancing. | Continue reading
There's extensive experience in recovering deleted files from hard disks, and results can be surprisingly good. Recovery from SSDs is more tricky, and secure 'wiping' ensures nothing can ever be recovered, making good backups essential. | Continue reading
Galatea falls in love with Acis, son of a river-god, but the Cyclops Polyphemus is in love with Galatea and is murderously jealous of Acis. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 300. Here are my solutions to them. 1: The […] | Continue reading
Whether they enable an App Store app to go beyond its sandbox, provide access to features that are privacy-protected, or give access to macOS features only permitted for approved apps, entitlements are important. | Continue reading
Paintings of the Roman countryside by Michallon, Blechen, Camille Corot, Arnold Böcklin, and others following Valenciennes' teaching. | Continue reading
What disk checks are made in Safe mode? How are they different from those run during normal startup? If Disk Utility is to be our only APFS repair tool, shouldn't have more and better features? | Continue reading
Remarkable oil sketches made in the countryside around Rome that laid the foundation for training in landscape painting, and ultimately Impressionism. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: The first […] | Continue reading
From Installer packages and metapackages, to the first for Big Sur with its new boot volume group. RSRs and their demise, and when an upgrade is an update. | Continue reading
Paintings from cities like London, Paris and Oslo, by Ford Madox Brown, Jean-Louis Forain, Félicien Rops, Christian Krohg, and others. | Continue reading
Claimed to block 3rd-party extensions and customisations from loading, check the startup disk, and to clear some system caches. When and why should you use it? | Continue reading
Blue-on-white Delft tiles in paintings of Vermeer, and those in the 19th century who recreated period interiors, including Laura Alma-Tadema. | Continue reading
This new build checks that it can get log extracts, and has a wider range of filters you can use to select which entries it fetches and displays. | Continue reading
Ariadne, Bacchantes, Sappho, Queen Guinevere, Salome and Judith in ecstasy, in paintings by Lovis Corinth, David, Rossetti, Gustav Klimt and others. | Continue reading
T2 Macs updated to 15.3.2 should have a newer firmware version than those who installed the Safari update for Sonoma or Ventura, but what is 14.7.5 and 13.7.5? Time to deconfuse. | Continue reading
Mary Magdalene, Saint Paul, Saint Cecilia, Joan of Arc in paintings by Elisabetta Sirani, Artemisia Gentileschi, Raphael, Annie Swynnerton and others. | Continue reading
Speed up your hard disk by partitioning it so that its innermost 20% remains unused. Reserve space for the SLC write cache on an SSD by limiting the size of volumes. | Continue reading
Aeneas and his family flee the burning city of Troy, losing his wife on the way. They sail to Delos, where they see the trees that Latona gripped when giving birth to Apollo and Diana. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 299. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Lucida […] | Continue reading
Covering thermal throttling, extended coverage of SLC write cache depletion and how long it takes to empty the cache, Trimming, and more. | Continue reading
After his divorce, his son the King of Rome. Disaster on the retreat from Moscow, and exile on the island of Saint Helena. The rapid rise of Napoleon III and his military failure against Prussia in 1870. | Continue reading
What was this new background service that suddenly appeared in Sonoma 14.1, liquiddetectiond? Why wasn't it documented until a year later, and is Apple really gathering data about damp USB-C ports? | Continue reading
Emperor Napoleon I, a Corsican of Italian origin who died on a remote British island in the South Atlantic. Paintings of his early military successes, and the Empress Joséphine before their divorce. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Lucida or […] | Continue reading
Installing and maintaining Mac OS 9.1 was a complex process that could easily occupy you for several hours getting all its components right. | Continue reading
A cheap substitute for tapestries, they came of age in the 19th century when paper could be made in long rolls and colour printing had improved. | Continue reading