Where would you find a 7C3457EF-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC? How UUIDs have taken over to identify so much, and how to generate your own. | Continue reading
First in a new series to celebrate the bicentenary of one of the major French painters of the second half of the 19th century. Early career as a Neo-Greek. | Continue reading
Thumbnails viewed in the Finder, and previews now supporting Live Text and more. But what if it runs into problems? Here's how to diagnose and solve them. | Continue reading
Associated with the countryside of northern Europe, hedges are the product of enclosures made in the 18th century. | Continue reading
Introduced in OS X 10.7 Lion in 2011, this feature has undergone considerable change. Although it stored versions in iCloud Drive at one time, it doesn't now. | Continue reading
After training in Copenhagen, he joined Friedrich in Dresden in 1818, and together they dominated German Romantic painting. | Continue reading
Recent oddities with FileVault Recovery Keys, and a new exploit GoFetch, raise concerns over how secure FileVault protection is. | Continue reading
Apple has just released an update to XProtect Remediator security software for Catalina or later, bringing it to […] | Continue reading
The humble garden snail, seldom painted with associated with death and Vanitas, evil, whiling time away, and the sensation of touch. | Continue reading
From the GPT division of storage space, through APFS containers, down to individual volumes, an account of how APFS works. | Continue reading
Linked stories of Tiresias, the trans-gender soothsayer, Narcissus who fell in love with himself, and Echo who could only repeat what others said. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 249. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Brown […] | Continue reading
Sometimes Apple silicon Macs refuse to boot from a bootable system. How to use bputil to check LocalPolicy and work out what's gone wrong. | Continue reading
Two themes now largely forgotten: Christ's descent into Limbo and Harrowing of Hell, and his supper at Emmaus. | Continue reading
How one of the serious bugs in macOS Sonoma 14.4 came about, why it was so serious, and how Apple released a fix in 7 days of it being reported. | Continue reading
One of few painters of the Barbizon School outside France, he painted portraits of the Boston Brahmins, an early baseball game, and Niagara Falls. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Brown beverage […] | Continue reading
A collection of zero-width characters, including the joiner used to create compound emoji, and others to control ligatures and line breaks. | Continue reading
Paintings by Jan van Eyck, Masaccio, Tintoretto and Delacroix with detailed explanations of their reading and background. | Continue reading
Signs of thermal strain in a Mac, including what kernel_task is doing, how to encourage heat dissipation and reduce it production. | Continue reading
Essential pigments for the landscape artist: green earths, malachite, verdigris, copper resinate, Prussian green, viridian, and emerald green. | Continue reading
You've just updated to 14.4 or 14.4.1 and are prompted to set up a new Recovery Key for FileVault. What do you do next, and how should you check the key? | Continue reading
The fairy tale of the Frog Prince, the fable of The Frogs who Demand a King, frogs at the Fall of Man, and dangling from a kite tail above Strasbourg. | Continue reading
Introduced in iOS 10.3 on 27 March 2017, then in macOS 10.13 six months later. It ups and downs, and where it still has further to go. | Continue reading
Apple has just released the now-regular weekly update to XProtect for all versions of macOS from El Capitan […] | Continue reading
The Lycians turned into frogs when they refused the goddess Latona a drink of water, and the sorceress Medea accompanied by toads. | Continue reading
With the heat of summer drawing near, it's time to consider keeping our Macs and their peripherals cool. Covers thermal paste, heat sinks, fans and more. | Continue reading
Apple has released updates to bring macOS Sonoma to version 14.4.1, build 23E224, and that for Ventura 13.6.6. […] | Continue reading
One of Ovid's weirdest tales, in which Juno convinces the pregnant Semele to demand her lover Jupiter reveals himself, resulting in her death, caesarian section and his surrogate pregnancy. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 248. Here are my solutions to them. 1: With […] | Continue reading
B+trees, directory records, directory and file names and Unicode normalisation, and whatever happened to the promise of fast directory sizing? | Continue reading
Repoussoir through windows, doors, then invading the middle of the painting with Corot and Pissarro, before Cézanne inverted it altogether. | Continue reading
We're almost unaware of clone files, and how they've changed macOS. But look at most documents that have been saved more than once, and you'll see they've now be cloned. | Continue reading
How repoussoir originated in figurative painting, and came to become a popular compositional technique for landscapes from Giorgione to Turner. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: With emoji […] | Continue reading
Has Apple fallen behind in ML and AI? Why hasn't it got its own Large Language Model, and how can it possibly catch up now? | Continue reading
Landscape paintings by Daubigny, Sisley, Berkos, Astrup, Pissarro, Julian Onderdonk, Granville Redmond, Théo van Rysselberghe and others. | Continue reading
What happens when you press and hold the e key? Does it repeat, or do you see a window offering accented versions? Do you know you can change that? | Continue reading
Convert a document into a folder containing all its saved versions, and unarchive that folder back into a document with all those saved versions. All using drag-and-drop. | Continue reading
From 1925, he moved away from themes common with his teacher Friedrich and developed his own Gothic Romanticism. | Continue reading
There's a problem with your Mac, so you try starting it up in Recovery. But that doesn't work. What should try next? Intel and Apple silicon Macs are then quite different. | Continue reading
After 1850, there was a resurgence of expressions of the emptiness and futility of earthly life, with symbols of death and transience of ephemeral objects. | Continue reading
Understanding how APFS works: inodes, attributes, file extents, extended attributes, and how they change with editing and cloning. | Continue reading
Apple has just released updates to XProtect Remediator security software (Catalina or later), bringing it to version 129, […] | Continue reading
Originating in the Northern Renaissance, these paintings expressed feelings of emptiness, and the futility of earthly life. Examples of these elaborate allegories. | Continue reading
How to reproduce this serious bug in Sonoma 14.4, and how to archive all the versions of a file or document so they can't get destroyed. | Continue reading
Have noticed brief periods of high CPU for universalaccessd in Sonoma? Do you know what com.apple.axserver is and why it can't be found? Can you help with this puzzle? | Continue reading
Do you use saved versions in documents? If a file is evicted by you or macOS, then all saved versions will now be removed, and lost forever. How to work around this serious bug. | Continue reading