For a couple of summers, she visited the Nordic Impressionists at the artist's colony in Skagen. Her painting of their card game is her outstanding work. | Continue reading
Union mounts let you merge the contents of two volumes without copying any files. Do they work as expected in Sonoma's APFS, though? | Continue reading
Apple has just released a further update to XProtect Remediator security software for Catalina or later, bringing it […] | Continue reading
More sinister and 'Gothic' landscapes from one of the leaders of the Düsseldorf School, and last of the German Romantics. | Continue reading
There are 3 different ways to access the log, and its entries will be different depending on which way you use. This explains the differences and methods. | Continue reading
Apple has just released updates to XProtect Remediator security software (Catalina or later), bringing it to version 132, […] | Continue reading
Poussin, Church, Grimshaw, Peterssen, Bierstadt, Turner, Cézanne, Klimt and Hodler paint lakes. | Continue reading
Swift source code to accompany the matching article on SwiftUI on macOS: Settings, defaults and About. | Continue reading
How to add a tabbed Settings window with different controls, for settings saved by UserDefaults, and extend the app's About window. | Continue reading
When the nymph Salmacis falls in passionate love with the son of Hermes and Aphrodite, he resists, and they are joined together in single body. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 253. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Financial […] | Continue reading
Other file systems, with an outline of vfs and vnodes used by the kernel, and how they're important in checking code signatures. | Continue reading
Sorolla's White Slave Trade, a mother's adultery and break up of her family, the awakened conscience offering redemption, or destitution. | Continue reading
Good human interface design should bring fun where it's appropriate, but fun is only justifiable when it's completed to be functional. | Continue reading
From William Hogarth's series "A Harlot's Progress", to the descent of the seamstress from sewing machine to prostitution. A popular 19th century story. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Financial collapse […] | Continue reading
If you can't run Sonoma on your Mac, how can you ensure it's still secure? Do you need to run 3rd party software? What are the risks? | Continue reading
Thumbs up or down in the gladiatorial arena, French history, the leading general in the Greek War of Independence, and the Wailing Wall. | Continue reading
From late 2012 until 2021, Apple sold many iMacs and Mac minis with Fusion Drives. Did they really offer the best of both worlds, and why have they gone now? | Continue reading
Painted either from a kayak or canoe, or dependent on gaining access using one. Biard, Frances Anne Hopkins, and the great Tom Thomson. | Continue reading
XProtect 2192 contains no less than 74 new rules to detect just one type of malicious software: Adload. What's behind this broadside? | Continue reading
A younger successor to Caspar David Friedrich, and prominent member of the Düsseldorf School, he was both a Romantic and an influence on the Hudson River School. | Continue reading
Reading the log in macOS isn't easy, but here ten systems where it's the only way to discover and address problems, and a bonus 11th. | Continue reading
Apple has just released updates to XProtect Remediator security software (Catalina or later), bringing it to version 131, […] | Continue reading
European grey herons, seen in paintings by Aelbert Cuyp, Hans Thoma, Daubigny, Frédéric Bazille, Alfred Sisley and others. | Continue reading
Swift/SwiftUI source code to accompany article on adding a PDF Help file to a SwiftUI app for macOS. | Continue reading
An explanation of how to implement the Help command, and how to use that to display a PDF document in a SwiftUI View. | Continue reading
The stories of Venus and Mars, caught in bed together by her husband Vulcan, and the unrequited loves of Leucothoë and Clytie for the Sun. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 252. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Waterproof […] | Continue reading
This reference covers fsck_apfs, diskutil information, diskutil apfs, conversion of HFS+ to APFS, mount_apfs, and newfs_apfs. | Continue reading
Back to the Baltic coast, with landscape paintings by Lovis Corinth, Laurits Andersen Ring, Ants Laikma, and Karl Isakson. | Continue reading
If you reported to Apple Support a failed attempt to remediate malware, would you expect to be told never to look in the log, and that the report must be false because macOS didn't show a dialog? | Continue reading
A trip to the Baltic coast, with Caspar David Friedrich, Carl Gustav Carus, Eugen Bracht, Eugen Dücker, and Carl Irmer's landscape paintings. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Waterproof to […] | Continue reading
How you can use regexes to make search more powerful and reduce the number of irrelevant entries it returns. | Continue reading
Three paintings about prostitution, a reception for Napoleon III, Cleopatra smuggled in a carpet, the Crucifixion, Napoleon I in Egypt, and a grim execution. | Continue reading
Do external SSDs draw so much power that they're likely to exceed that available from Thunderbolt or USB4? What would the consequences be in terms of heat? | Continue reading
In the late 19th century, it evolved from classical painting dating back to the 1400s, to Barbizon School and Impressionism, with some traditional artists continuing. | Continue reading
How to set up your own styles in TextEdit, DelightEd or another editor using macOS's features. Use them to make laying out styled text easier and more powerful. | Continue reading
After training in Copenhagen, he became involved in the Romantic Movement, developed his own colour theory, but died at the age of only 33. | Continue reading
Source code for the main article about SwiftUI on macOS, to be read alongside that article. | Continue reading
Apple advises that SwiftUI apps for macOS avoid using AppDelegate. How can you substitute initial app setup, and cleaning up before an app quits using just SwiftUI? | Continue reading
The humble beast of burden, carrying drunken kings, Mary and the infant Jesus, the Good Samaritan, Sancho Panza, and young lambs. | Continue reading
Quantum computers are coming, and with them the likelihood they can break today's encryption methods. Prepare now against the future, using iMessage's latest features. | Continue reading
The earliest known story in the Western canon to end with the suicide of frustrated lovers, it was the precursor to Romeo and Juliet, and extensively depicted. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 251. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Obtained […] | Continue reading
Overview of clone files, dataless files, sparse files, symbolic links, and firmlinks, and how used and free space is accounted for in APFS. | Continue reading
Perhaps she wasn't as much abducted as seduced by Paris, but after he's killed in the war, she plays a crucial final role in the destruction of Troy. | Continue reading