Does macOS use Live Text to extract and index recognisable text in images? Is that a good or bad thing if it did? What about PDFs? | Continue reading
Most are savage in winter, and ascended from close to sea level. The highest of the 282 Scottish peaks over 3,000 feet is Ben Nevis. | Continue reading
If you can’t upgrade it to Sonoma, how can you ensure your production Mac doesn’t get upgraded unintentionally? | Continue reading
Sleeping Beauty, a morning nude, in sickness, and the deathbed. Killed in bed, two unusual depictions of the Virgin Mary in bed, and one of a bed floating on the River Seine. | Continue reading
Sparse bundle passwords, shared folders in macOS VMs, and security updates for VMs, are all important fixes. But none for the Finder. | Continue reading
Huge divans, closed wooden cabinets, and iron bedsteads. In love, marriage, adultery, problem pictures, and the erotic. | Continue reading
You can disable its checks of scheduling, and it better analyses Speed in Big Sur, and backups in macOS 11-14. | Continue reading
The update to bring macOS Sonoma to version 14.3 isn’t large, although it has some compelling security content as it addresses a vulnerability that is believed to have been exploited already.… | Continue reading
Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all versions of macOS from El Capitan or so, bringing it to version 2181. Apple doesn’t release information about what security issues this u… | Continue reading
Apple has just released the update to bring macOS Sonoma to version 14.3, and security updates for Ventura 13.6.4 and Monterey 12.7.3. Download size on an Apple silicon Mac is around 1.83 GB. Apple… | Continue reading
Cupid gets revenge on Apollo by making him fall in love with Daphne, and she refusing to co-operate. The result is her being transformed into the laurel. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 239. Here are my solutions to them. 1: In eight months I went from thin to fat, and could even gain a plus. Click for a solution Macint… | Continue reading
In a wide range of in-core tests, CPU performance in VMs is close to that of code running native on the host, and M3 VMs are faster than M1 native. With one significant exception. | Continue reading
The Newlyn School in Cornwall flourishes and gains international acclaim during the early 20th century. Coastal landscape paintings to 1922. | Continue reading
When running on M3 hosts, macOS VMs lack support for some of the instruction set, and Accelerate commands may be much slower. Why? | Continue reading
The development of landscape painting of the coast of Cornwall, from the late 18th century, through the Newlyn School, to the 1890s. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: In eight months I went from thin to fat, and could even gain a plus. 2: Bill and AndyR… | Continue reading
Text can be searched by eavesdroppers and crawlers to discover its content and extract it for other purposes. How to make their task more difficult using Unicode. | Continue reading
The Raft of the Medusa shown at the Salon, then the following year in London, and again in Dublin. The start of his search for a successor theme. | Continue reading
New version helps you check which features are available in your Mac’s CPU, and more, linking to a page here with detailed information. | Continue reading
A selection of his early paintings, and an account of the year he spent preparing and painting his masterwork, the Raft of the Medusa. | Continue reading
How have the CPUs in our Macs become faster since the Macintosh 128K was launched by Steve Jobs forty years ago? | Continue reading
Mountain people painted in the late 19th century: Hutsuls by Axentowicz and others, and those of the Engadine by the stateless Segantini. | Continue reading
Analysis of T2M2's report from rotating Time Machine backups, including the first full backup made to a NAS. | Continue reading
Apple has just released updates to XProtect Remediator security software (Catalina or later), bringing it to version 123, […] | Continue reading
Paintings of telescopes less then ten years after they became available, as symbols of mariners, and microscopes in medical research around 1900. | Continue reading
Do you keep getting emails from Apple concerning your iCloud account, or problems with its storage? Here’s how to check everything is in order. | Continue reading
Jupiter wipes out unworthy humans in a flood. One pious couple survive, and go on to re-create humanity transformed from stones. This leaves the monstrous Python to be killed by Apollo. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 238. Here are my solutions to them. 1: They could come from God, emails, or inner meanings from 2012. Click for a solution Messages The… | Continue reading
Apple’s M2 chip uses a newer version of the CPU core instruction set. This increases its capability, thus how well it will cope with future apps and macOS, compared with the M1. | Continue reading
From Delacroix's final Shipwreck off a Coast, through Aivazovsky's Ninth Wave, to Waterhouse's painting of The Tempest. | Continue reading
The keyboard firmware update that flew in under the radar, and one of many fixes in Sonoma 14.2 tackle different Bluetooth vulnerabilities. How do they affect you? | Continue reading
From Tintoretto in the 1560s, through the canonical Raft of the Medusa by Théodore Géricault, to Delacroix's Shipwreck of the Don Juan. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: They could come from God, emails, or inner meanings from 2012. 2: Confession of gossip, i… | Continue reading
M1 CPUs support ARMv8.5A, which doesn’t support the new bfloat16 floating-point format now widely used in AI. That’s likely to put them at a disadvantage. | Continue reading
Looking at paintings that are maps, and maps that are paintings, including Leonardo da Vinci’s, and the first map of Australia from 1547. | Continue reading
It has been a long time since I last updated the PDF guide to all the free software that’s available from here. Although it seemed like a good idea at the time, I’ve decided that a PDF … | Continue reading
Apple has released a firmware update for its Bluetooth Magic Keyboards, although you can’t download it yourself, and it just happens by magic. According to its security release note, this upd… | Continue reading
After Church painted the Andes, Albert Bierstadt travelled with surveyors to the Rockies in 1859 and 1863, from where his paintings are awe-inspiring. | Continue reading
From Hypervisor APIs in OS X 10.10 Yosemite in 2014, through early VirtIO kernel extensions in Mojave in 2018, and Arm hypervisor support in Big Sur. | Continue reading
Badminton, tennis, rowing regattas and races, and boxing, pictured by George Bellows, Alfred Sisley, Thomas Eakins and others. | Continue reading
How to read T2M2's report on your Time Machine backups, interpret the results, and discover where any problems are occurring. | Continue reading
Hyacinthus killed by a discus, a couple married as the result of a running race, funeral games, Roman spectacle, and the games of childhood. | Continue reading
Fixes two bugs, including the saving and use of display resolution and other settings, has revised menus, and a full 13-page Help book. | Continue reading
Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all versions of macOS from El Capitan or so, bringing it to version 2178. Apple doesn’t release information about what security issues this u… | Continue reading
Book 1 of Ovid's Metamorphoses start with an account of the creation, the four ages of man, then tells of the first transformation, of Lycaon into a (were)wolf. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 237. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Dandelion seed head brings alarm. Click for a solution Clock Dandelion seed head (known as a clo… | Continue reading
Which single folder in /System/Library contains the most bundles? Why did the number of kernel extensions in macOS soar from 535 to 788 in less than 2 months? | Continue reading