These became popular in the late 16th century, with fine examples from Lavinia Fontana, Paul Bril, Jan Brueghel the Elder, and Adam Elsheimer. | Continue reading
Will now list apps installed on systems running with primary languages other than English. Problems resulted from unexpected behaviour of Spotlight and search with mdfind, as explained here in detail. | Continue reading
The 101st story, buried in the start of the fourth day, about a father who turns hermit with his young son after his wife's early death, and a derived fable told by La Fontaine. | Continue reading
I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 342. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Reproduce flour […] | Continue reading
What can you do to protect your Mac when a stranger asks you to take a look at a document or app? Two alternatives for doing this is safety, rather than risk being victim to a phishing attack. | Continue reading
Louis Blériot's flight across the Channel in 1909, biplanes in the air war in 1914-18, and the Battle of Britain seen from a distance in 1941. | Continue reading
Do you check XProtect Remediator scans using XProCheck on your laptop Mac? How often are its scans run there, daily or erratically? | Continue reading
From earliest ascents in hot air balloons from 1783 onwards, their role in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, to the first airships and Wright style aircraft. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Reproduce flour […] | Continue reading
Two of the Mac's defining features, how they differ, the roles of source and receiver apps, how they work, how transferable types can limit them, and their future in macOS. | Continue reading
Typically by a road junction outside a town, they are a grim reminder of the brutal consequences of even petty crimes, and significant to the reading of paintings shown. | Continue reading
A demonstration of three simple ways to add invisible text to a PDF that could be used to prompt AI how to review it. And a method of detection. | Continue reading
At the end of the Golden Age, he specialised in painting the Dark Arts, with astrology, rejuvenation, witchcraft, and faerie allegories. | Continue reading
T2M2 is nearly 9 years old. Here's a walk through its summary reports on Time Machine backups. and an outline of what you'll see in its log extracts. | Continue reading
From 1885 fans were a popular support for several artists, including Carl Larsson, Anders Zorn, and Paul Gauguin painted many of them. | Continue reading
How to make a textClipping of an article from within a webpage, then save that in different formats suitable for longer-term reference. | Continue reading
Long used as a support for fine art painting in East Asia, fans made their way from Japan into French collections in the late 19th century, and Degas and Pissarro saw their potential. | Continue reading
How to exclude folders and files from these services, with new problems apparent in macOS Tahoe over exclusions from Time Machine backups. | Continue reading
The tenth story on the tenth day, Griselda suffered a harrowing life with her husband, with mock killings of their children and a feigned divorce before they're reconciled. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 341. Here are my solutions to them. 1: When […] | Continue reading
New app to analyse, display and give direct access to the contents of clipping files, including textClipping and pictClipping files created by the Finder. | Continue reading
Pierre and Marthe Bonnard bought a villa in the village soon after they married, and she died there in 1942, with Pierre following her in 1947. | Continue reading
Drag content from an app onto the Desktop or a location in a Finder window to create a clipping file. Although they date back to the early 1990s, they're still well supported in Tahoe. | Continue reading
A small village inland from the resort of Cannes, on the Mediterranean coast. Home to Renoir as an escape for his arthritis, and later to Pierre Bonnard, who settled down there. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: When we […] | Continue reading
ASCII and its variants, code pages for non-Latin languages, then Unicode brought three major formats with endian variants and normalisation forms. | Continue reading
January is named after the Roman god of transitions, Janus, and is the first month of the New Year. Or is it? Classical civilisations more usually started their year in Spring, and what's this about Juno? | Continue reading
Analyses of numbers of bundles in the /System folder and significant folders within that, for macOS 10.14.5 Mojave to 26.2 Tahoe. These show how private macOS has become. | Continue reading
Symbolism, Naturalism, Neo-Impressionism, industrial realism, Hudson River landscapes, folklore, orientalist landscapes, Impressionism, and genre painting of the Dutch Golden Age. | Continue reading
Catch up on your reading with selected articles from the past year, covering security, logs, macOS generally, Spotlight in particular, and some utilities. | Continue reading
Last of London's working horses, the fall of Phaethon, 3D water droplets in Hell, vanitas symbols, Neptune's horses, a blown-out umbrella, and others. | Continue reading
Catch up on your reading with selected articles from the past year, covering hardware, firmware and Recovery, troubleshooting and updates. | Continue reading
Lower East Side tenements, King Midas with ass's ears, unusual interiors, Napoleon's retreat in 1812, marble quarries, British music halls, and more. | Continue reading
A summary of the resource types used in these files, and their modern data equivalents, from 'classic' Mac text to Unicode, RTF and even WebArchive. | Continue reading
Domestic interiors that aren't quite right, a woman's black silhouette that seems to absorb light, a colour-coded account of Perseus rescuing Andromeda, and his last landscapes. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 340. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Controversial […] | Continue reading
Is your Mac running Sequoia or Tahoe? Is its XProtect up to date and using version 5325? If not, you might have to wait until the return from holidays before that's fixed. | Continue reading
Among the leaders of the French Revolution, he was almost guillotined alongside Robespierre, but got on well with Napoleon, and was even offered the post of court painter to King Louis XVIII. | Continue reading
If someone had told me 12 months ago what was going to happen this past year, I wouldn’t […] | Continue reading
John Singer Sargent's huge murals of classical myths, two last narrative paintings by Lovis Corinth, modern style in portraits by Anita Rée, and Oleksandra Ekster's 'Theatrical Composition'. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Controversial molten […] | Continue reading
Introduced in about 1999, they come in 3 flavours: weblocs, maillocs and textClippings. How they have changed, how you can still use them, and how to fix them. | Continue reading
Christmas trees cut in the woods, or bought in a seasonal market. Queen Marie and ordinary families gathered round, and finally falling asleep exhausted. | Continue reading
Verify that the app doesn't change file extended attributes, discover why false flags result from updating apps in place, check who has been changing your preferences, and how to add App Store apps to Provenance tracking. | Continue reading
The Nativity, Adoration of the Shepherds and the Magi, painted by Bastien-Lepage, Murillo, Hieronymus Bosch, Edward Burne-Jones, and others. | Continue reading
A new app to check files for Providence IDs and Quarantine information, so providing info about the origin and recent edit history of those files. | Continue reading
Successful on his 4th attempt at the Prix de Rome, he became the leading Neoclassical painter and painted history and other narratives. Then he became embroiled in the French Revolution. | Continue reading
How to read a UUID to determine whether it's supposed to be random, or has a specific meaning. Where you'll find them, and whether you'll ever see two the same. | Continue reading