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Month: December 2016

More fun scripting with Swift and Xcode: cheating with AppleScript

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How to run a shell command with root privileges from with Swift. The roundabout way.

December 22, 2016 Macs, Technology

The App Store 2.2 is still quite broken

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The App Store had been behaving itself, until it showed that it couldn’t count up to three accurately.

December 22, 2016 Macs, Technology

Hesiod’s Brush, the paintings of Gustave Moreau: 4 After the storm

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Two paintings of the buried dismemberment of a victim: one theatrical narrative, the other a serene reverie of anti-theatrical non-narrative. And an oriental witch.

December 21, 2016 General, Painting

More fun scripting with Swift and Xcode: the signature shuffle

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Another ‘scripting’ exercise in Swift starts with time wasted sorting out signing. But it does get better after that.

December 21, 2016 Macs, Technology

Apple’s Christmas Message: the desktop Mac is not dead, far from it

Next year might not be as bad as it is currently. Tim Cook doesn’t reveal any details, but lays down some corporate policy.

December 21, 2016 Macs, Technology

Tyger’s eye: the paintings of William Blake, 14 – fragments of mythology

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A brief tour through some of Blake’s personal mythology, as depicted in his paintings. With explanations.

December 20, 2016 General, Painting

A Console replacement for examining past logs in Sierra: LogLogger5b update

Introducing a revised version of my free Console replacement app LogLogger. This is now signed, with no other changes.

December 20, 2016 Macs, Technology

LockRattler: a quick check of macOS security protection systems

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Is your Mac properly locked down with Apple’s security protection systems? Here’s a free tool to check most of them out.

December 20, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Hesiod’s Brush, the paintings of Gustave Moreau: 3 The thunderclap

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He took the Salon of 1864 by storm, but was barely noticed with 2 more paintings the following year. Why?

December 19, 2016 General, Painting

What to do when your account might have been compromised

Massive breaches of personal data happen all too often. What should you do when they affect a website or service which you use?

December 19, 2016 General, Life, Macs, Technology

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