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 […]
Fairy-tale princesses in their hennin conical hat, her half-sister modelling for Tissot, dinner with the Sisleys, Impressionist trees at dawn, white roses, and more.
When listing files by name, should 20test.text come before or after 200test.text? Which order is the more ‘natural’? How this quickly becomes complex.
Brushstrokes and painterly marks in the portraits of Gainsborough, Reynolds, Angelica Kauffmann, Jacques-Louis David and James Tissot.
How to optimise your Mac’s cooling using conduction, convection and radiation. Use physical principles to cope with extreme summer temperatures, and how you can work more comfortably as well.
His early paintings of roadside cafes used shadow with great effect, but most was removed from court portraits. Those in Las Meninas are controlled and elaborate.
To check XProtect Remediator scans, you really need log records lasting at least 24 hours. What can you do if your Mac’s only run for 6-8 hours? Here’s how to use Logistician to help, and how you can cheat.
Coppice stools, cut to just above ground level, and pollards cut high enough to stop them from being damaged by cattle, were commonly used to produce supplies of timber.
Fixes to occasional but persistent crashing bugs with no workaround. Recommended for all users.
Before the T2, EFI firmware in Intel Macs was complicated. Then simplicity arrived: all Macs running the current version of a supported version of macOS had the same firmware. Not any more they don’t.
Apple has just released the update to bring macOS Tahoe to version 26.5.2. Although there are currently no […]
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