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
Waiting the knight's end, watching a sorceress, flying over a wheat field, or in front of a sleigh. Wherever they go they seem sinister. | Continue reading
Version 1.5 of this metadata editor fixes a bug causing a spurious editor when Autosave is enabled. | Continue reading
How to use the Time Machine log extract in Mints to check whether its backups are working normally, and what are expected errors. | Continue reading
Apple has just released updates to bring macOS Sonoma to version 14.1.1, and macOS Ventura 13.6.2 for “MacBook Pro (2021 and later) and iMac (2023)”. Although these are thought to be se… | Continue reading
Companions to valkyries, accompanying the Wild Hunt, at the Crucifixion and executions, or the first sign of Spring? | Continue reading
How much faster are P cores at running the same thread as E cores, and how much more energy do they require? And how do they compare with using the GPU? | Continue reading
Perceval’s sister dies to save the life of a lady, Lancelot achieves the grail, then Galahad, Bors and Perceval do, but only one of them lives to tell the tale. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 228. Here are my solutions to them. 1: First person seed vessel brought mobile music for 21 years. Click for a solution iPod First pers… | Continue reading
APFS checks file system metadata, not file data. Consistency Scan has gone missing, verifying checksums doesn't appear to verify data, and Verify Integrity seems to do something altogether different. | Continue reading
From Rembrandt to the First World War, through specialists including Atkinson Grimshaw, Eugène Jansson, Schikaneder, and Le Sidaner. | Continue reading
The most frequent error written to the log during my backups concerns a rogue RTFD that went recursive on me 4 years ago, and has come back to haunt me. | Continue reading
Trained in London, Italy and France, he combined a Pre-Raphaelite style from Burne-Jones with Symbolism of Puvis de Chavannes. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: First person seed vessel brought mobile music for 21 years. 2: Current objects buried for the… | Continue reading
The most accessible of any metadata in the Finder and apps, Finder tags can be ideal for classifying files and folders into no more than 7 categories. Here’s how they work. | Continue reading
From its origin in portraiture, through to experiments by Renoir, and many oil paintings by Anders Zorn, control over edges can be highly effective. | Continue reading
Fixes one bug, and adds two new features. Can now autosave, to help you make workflows quicker and more reliable. | Continue reading
A look at some of the factors determining the performance of new M3 chips compared to the M1 and M2 versions, and how not to compare them. | Continue reading
Mounts Fuji, Cotopaxi, Merapi, St Helens, and above all the most painted of all, Vesuvius during its violent eruptions. | Continue reading
Detailed account and explanation of the sequence of phases during an automatic backup in Sonoma 14.0 and 14.1, with tear-out chart. | Continue reading
Split a block of rock, craft your sculpture, break stones to dress the roads, be a blacksmith, sharpen your scythe, forge iron, or operate on a leg with your hammer. | Continue reading
First released 16 years ago, it was destined for Time Capsules, and relied on hard links in HFS+. It soon used APFS snapshots, and now uses them as the basis for its backups. | Continue reading
Wielded by the Etruscan god of death Charun, Hephaistos or Vulcan, Jael as she killed Sisera, those who nailed Christ to the cross, and the Norse god Thor. | Continue reading
Version 1.3 adds drag and drop onto a document window, and a Scratchpad to store keywords that you use often. For 10.14.6 and later. | Continue reading
Galahad was given a shield dating back to Joseph of Arimathea, then sorted out the Castle of Maidens, before getting his sword and scabbard on a ghost ship. | Continue reading
For older articles about previous versions of OS X, see this article macOS 11 Big Sur and Apple […] | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 227. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Valley of the moon brings wine and widgets to the desktop. Click for a solution Sonoma Valley of… | Continue reading
How iCloud Drive, concerned with sharing files, and CloudKit, supporting databases shared in iCloud, have changed in Sonoma. | Continue reading
A tragedy with a happy outcome, painted by Waterhouse, Kauffman, Paulus Bor, Delacroix, Maurice Denis and Lovis Corinth. | Continue reading
What are dataless files, and how do they work with iCloud and third-party cloud service providers? How can you tell whether a file is dataless? | Continue reading
Superb paintings of this tragedy from Roman history, by Veronese, Reni, Gentileschi, Rembrandt and Godfrey Kneller. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Valley of the moon brings wine and widgets to the desktop. 2: From an early mission to Patago… | Continue reading
Why are some file metadata embedded in their main data, and others stored separately as extended attributes? How can I tell them apart? | Continue reading
An American fan of Vermeer who trained under Gérôme in Paris thought he’d discovered Vermeer’s optical secrets, and revived his defocussed style. | Continue reading