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 […]
Largely self-taught, in the early 19th century stood alongside Constable and Turner. Prolific painter of the countryside, with wonderful oil sketches, and farm animals.
A new file in the latest XProtect data is set to protect private data used by eight widely used third-party apps, including popular web browsers. But which version of macOS will do this?
Apple has released security updates to macOS Tahoe, bringing it to version 26.6.1, for Sequoia to 15.7.9, and […]
As Paul Cézanne reached the end of his Impressionist phase, he started painting foliage using patterned brushstrokes, his ‘constructive stroke’.
macOS Sequoia and Tahoe have changed the way Gatekeeper and XProtect are controlled. Can a user disable them, and if so, how? And how can you check whether both are enabled?
Apple has just released its weekly update to XProtect for all versions of macOS, bringing it to version […]
Before about 1870, no one questioned that cast shadows should appear grey, without any change in colour. The Impressionists disagreed.
Every computer system needs a backup strategy to cope with different scales and types of disaster. How to work out what needs to be preserved, and how to do about reducing the risk of data loss.
Walnuts providing food, fine wood, and a drying oil used as an alternative to linseed; almonds that may have a high cyanide content, but are still eaten. Paintings from Piero to Bonnard.
Two command tools, lsregister and lsappinfo, are often recommended for dealing with LaunchServices problems. This summarises what they can and cannot do.
The Eclectic Light Company 