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 […]
Charles and Ubaldo show Rinaldo how he has become a woman’s dandy, and get him to return to the crusade with them, leaving Armida seeking her vengeance.
I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 353. Here are my solutions to them. 1: The future […]
For nearly 12 minutes, the progress bar was stuck at 98.6% complete and “about 5 minutes remaining”, and on many older Macs those lasted even longer. Did the update get stuck?
Over 20 years of views over the lake from Hodler, with his Parallelist style, and culminating in some of the most sublime landscapes in European painting.
Why isn’t the progress bar for macOS updates better? Why can’t it estimate the whole time remaining to complete an update?
Paintings from 19th century masters including JMW Turner, the Swiss specialist Alexandre Calame, John Ferguson Weir, and Gustave Courbet in exile.
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: The future […]
macOS will delay disk and other input/output operations for background tasks like backing up. Is there any point in disabling that in an Apple silicon Mac to make backups faster?
Early career, including the Judgement of Paris, Hesiod and the Muses, Oedipus and the Sphinx, Jason, Orpheus, and Jupiter and Europa.
In Ventura, VM disk performance was poor, with write speeds of 0.7 GB/s. How fast is it now in macOS 26.4, and how does using FileVault affect it? Plus a note on problems with BSIs in VMs.
The Eclectic Light Company 