Goya’s crockery salesman, Lhermitte’s Les Halles in Paris, a trio of specialist markets, Rosa Bonheur’s horse fair in Paris, and the last hay market in London. | Continue reading
Automatic Time Machine backups aren’t scheduled to run at precise times, but when it’s convenient. This explains how, and what to do if goes wrong. | Continue reading
When the queen is abducted, Lancelot rescues her, only to see her prepared to be burned at the stake. Arthur and Lancelot go to war against one another, and Arthur against Mordred, the usurper. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 231. Here are my solutions to them. 1: From a nutshell to create a collection of papers to store your data. Click for a solution FileMa… | Continue reading
Using assembly language test loops to understand the differences between M1 Pro and M3 Pro CPU cores casts new light on their differences. | Continue reading
The forgotten French Impressionist Félix Cals, Neo-Impressionist Georges Seurat, and two former Nabis, Félix Vallotton and Édouard Vuillard also painted this coastal town. | Continue reading
How to get an app to leak memory, what a leak does, how to mitigate against a leak, and how an engineer should fix it. | Continue reading
Richard Parkes Bonington, Camille Corot, Eugène Boudin, Claude Monet and Johan Jongkind all painted this small town opposite Le Havre. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: From a nutshell to create a collection of papers to store your data. 2: First a beagle then a… | Continue reading
From blessing Classic Mac OS, through SUM and the first Recovery partition in Mac OS X Lion, right up to 1 True Recovery on Apple silicon Macs. | Continue reading
Born in Scotland, worked much of his career in Rome, he mentored Benjamin West, worked with Piranesi, and bought Leonardo’s Virgin of the Rocks. | Continue reading
Occasionally, switching apps in Sonoma’s Stage Manager sets the whole menu bar to red, and loses menus on its left. What’s the cause? | Continue reading
A journey from the southern shore of Lake Geneva and Mont Blanc, travelling east to the Zugspitze, highest mountain in Germany. | Continue reading
These fix a bug when restoring a VM window that has been minimised to the Dock. | Continue reading
With one leak in the Finder’s Gallery view, it’s time for another, in Icon view. This is an old leak, that has affected older versions of macOS too, but still hasn’t been fixed. | Continue reading
In chiaroscuro, for enlightenment, at the centre of family and friends at dinner, and in special safety lamps carried underground by coal miners. | Continue reading
Little seems to have changed in CPU cores in M3 chips, if you read reviews. Dig a bit deeper and there are major changes, as explained here. | Continue reading
the personification of vigilance, Mary Magdalen, in shadowplay, held by Florence Nightingale ‘the lady of the lamp’, and associated with overwork and tiredness. | Continue reading
iCloud Drive in Sonoma has changed beyond all recognition, and is now closely integrated with the FileProvider API. This has important effects, including how you can diagnose problems with the log. | Continue reading
Cursed to be confined to weaving images on her loom and forbidden from looking directly at the outside world, she breaks that to look at Sir Lancelot. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 230. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Prepares a play text for publication and runs your code. Click for a solution Script Editor Prep… | Continue reading
Select groups of many JPEG images in Finder’s gallery view, and the Finder’s memory grows steadily until you’re forced to relaunch it. | Continue reading
Paintings in which he helped set the thumbs up and down sign, and painted himself making a sculpture he had previously painted in a painting as a sculpture. | Continue reading
My MacBook Pro 16-inch is on its way. Why is it coming with an M3 Pro and not an M3 Max? | Continue reading
From an early painting of the blind Michelangelo to that of a nude courtesan before a Greek court, vision and visual fidelity was his recurrent theme. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Prepares a play text for publication and runs your code. 2: Otto’s icon brings actions … | Continue reading
We used to reset the Desktop, the SMC, and NVRAM, install the Combo updater, or perform a clean install. Now there's only Safe mode left. | Continue reading
How some landscape painters blurred the view to paint, while others have depicted motion blur, depth of field effects, or an edge hierarchy. Links to each article in the series. | Continue reading
What is Time Machine best at doing? What are its current limitations in macOS Sonoma, when backing up to APFS? A draft list. | Continue reading
Artists who flocked to the Prado in Madrid often visited Granada, where the towers of the Alhambra rise to compete with the snowy peaks of the Sierra Nevada. | Continue reading
Once you know how to configure an app to be able to use Game Mode, you can run better tests. Here are measurements of CPU and GPU performance for comparison between Full Screen and Game Mode. | Continue reading
Shackles of the night, in a well, as a rope ladder how Romeo meets Juliet, trussing up a robber, or hanging John Brown, the abolitionist. | Continue reading
Two different errors when backing up two different Macs, a recursive RTFD document, and APFS path length limits. But what’s this about FileProvider? | Continue reading
How ropes form a thread running through these four paintings of the Passion and Crucifixion Tintoretto painted. | Continue reading
How well can Time Machine back up other volumes, such as those on external drives? Can it restore them when the original disk fails or goes missing? | Continue reading
She fell in love with Sir Lancelot, nursed him back to health after he was badly wounded, but he refused to marry her, or even take her as his lover. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 229. Here are my solutions to them. 1: On-camera preview shows you files. Click for a solution Finder On-camera preview (a viewfinder) … | Continue reading
If you want to install some updates but not all, this version adds two improvements to help you do that without unintentionally downloading what you don't want. | Continue reading
In 1876, Moreau recast Salome as the author of John the Baptist's execution, amplified by Oscar Wilde, Richard Strauss, and the Dance of the Seven Veils. | Continue reading
Sonoma 14.1.1 and Ventura 13.6.2 apparently contained ‘important bug fixes and security updates’, although Apple provides no further details. What is going on? | Continue reading
The original Biblical account of the martyrdom of John the Baptist says that Herod's wife Herodias ordered it in revenge, as seen in these paintings. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: On-camera preview shows you files. 2: Cover for loose papers as a directory metaphor. 3: Wort… | Continue reading
Apple silicon Macs are designed and built for reliability. Using old techniques to safeguard from disaster isn’t wise: they need to be reappraised, and contingencies planned accordingly. | Continue reading
Painting with an edge hierarchy requires fine control over paint viscosity and drying time, and a deep understanding of technique. | Continue reading
How should you restore a whole volume, or an old version of a document to a different folder? Includes details of backup structure. | Continue reading
Apple has overnight released an update to XProtect for all macOS from El Capitan or so, bringing it […] | Continue reading
An illustrated account of the 14th successful ascent of Mont Blanc, complete with champagne and red wine, and two oil paintings of other climbs. | Continue reading
Many of us keep an emergency external drive at the ready by our Mac, in case we need to use it to recover from problems. What’s the equivalent for Apple silicon? | Continue reading