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 […]
A style set by Monet and Renoir in their 1869 paintings of La Grenouillère, it became more deliberate and even adopted by those considered to paint in academic style.
The commands to use with softwareupdate to download and install different types of update and complete macOS installers. And how to deal with XProtect in Sequoia and later.
From trompe l’oeil for sculpture to children making rabbits on the wall, shadows have long been popular, and most recently have featured in Surrealist paintings too.
How macOS makes the association between file types and apps for the Finder and GUI, using UTIs and their associated data including filename extensions. Why clashes occur, and how they’re resolved.
Apple has just released another update to XProtect for all versions of macOS, its second in the last […]
How to distinguish sweet from horse chestnuts in paintings from Sisley, Pissarro, Cézanne, Carl Larsson, Vincent van Gogh, Egon Schiele and others. And all about conkers.
Support for encrypted HFS+ ends next year in macOS 28. Does that also affect encrypted disk images? Could you use in situ conversion to APFS Encrypted on old Time Machine backups?
Although it brings a record number of 143 security fixes, changes in version 26.6 seem fairly modest in […]
Apple has just released updates to all three supported versions of macOS, bringing Tahoe to version 26.6, and […]
After escaping from Polyphemus, Odysseus’ crew release a bag of winds, resulting in all except for his ship being eaten by cannibals. They then reach Circe’s island, where she wants to turn them all into pigs.
The Eclectic Light Company 