Major macOS releases from Sierra to Ventura, with full details of each release and security update. Also updates to XProtect, MRT and Gatekeeper.
For a systematic compilation of links to articles here about Apple silicon Macs, M1, M2, M3, M4 and […]
Use the mdimport and mdls commands to dump full information about all the metadata attributes found for a file, and those indexed by Spotlight.
From Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini Wedding to Velázquez’s Las Meninas, how the skilful use of mirrors can add to a painting in mirror play.
Can be a Mac-saver if you have problems when your backup storage isn’t available. You don’t need to run Time Machine to make them, and can roll back in Recovery, as shown here.
Named after the red lead pigment used to outline them, these illustrate luxury manuscript books. Examples from around 400 CE through accounts of the Crusades, to Aesop’s fables in 1530.
Two significant indexing errors when processing RTF and image files caused search failures. Display in the Finder is also insufficient to make these xattrs as useful as they could be.
Apple has released an update to XProtect for all versions of macOS, bringing it to version 5342. As […]
The story of the greatest slayer of monsters, son of Zeus and Danaë, who was sent on a mission to bring back the severed head of Medusa, then stopped in Ethiopia to rescue a princess who was about to be eaten by a sea monster.
How to select the most appropriate way of storing metadata, limitations of Finder Comments and Tags, which extended attributes are best, and which utilities to edit and manage them.
Following another visit to Ecuador and Colombia in 1857, he painted his masterwork ‘The Heart of the Andes’, which had to be viewed using opera glasses to appreciate its intricate detail.
I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 358. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Thinly dispersed […]
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